It's been a funny old year 2011, with the funniest unfunny thing that happened being the epicentre of the international financial crisis shifting from the United States to the United Europe, sorry the European Union, no, sorry, the Eurozone, which is the countries within the European Union that ad...

I was catching up on a backlog of reading last weekend when I came across an interesting, if worrisome, article in The Economist. In it, the British newsmagazine suggested the Canadian real estate market is overvalued by 25 per cent or more, and is now "frothier" than the U.S. market was...

This 1920s-era house is on tranquil Buyukada, the largest of the nine Princes’ Islands, 12 miles off Istanbul. It has two stories and about 3,800 square feet of space, on a 12,400-square-foot property on the island, which does not allow cars. The entrance, on the ground floor, opens ...