25 year old buys $28million mansion

The 25-year-old son of Bulgarian immigrants has snapped up one of the most expensive properties in Australia.
Internet entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff paid 28 million Australian dollars (26 million US dollars) for an uncompleted beachfront mansion on Queensland’s Gold Coast, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday.
The mansion will have an estimated value of between $50 million [...]

How to feature your home for a movie or magazine shoot

Featuring your home on a television show, in a movie, or in a house and home-wares magazine can be exciting and also make a little bit of cash for you.
There are, of course, certain issues to take into account, not simply to increase the opportunity of making your home a star, but to protect [...]

Carbon Neutral 101

Carbon Neutral 101 from the Green Building Council (GBCA) has recently received numerous queries on the topics of ‘carbon neutral’ and ‘zero net operating emissions’. We expect that we will continue to hear about projects wishing to pursue these goals.Buildings need to have zero emissions in their construction, operation and embodied energy to be truly [...]

Marquette Turner teams up with City Gym

Marquette Turner has teamed up with City Gym, Sydney’s most loved, most up-dated, and most seriously trendy gym.
Stylish but straight forward, City Gym has recently been transformed into the “health club of the future”. Recently voted by the Sydney Morning Herald as the “gym of the future”, the club now offers three levels of [...]

The Billionaire Club: Steven Spielberg

East Hampton, New York
Net Worth: $3 billion
Rank: 368
Called Quelle Farm, Steven Spielberg’s 12-acre summer retreat sits on Georgica Pond, the A-lister playground of such stars as Calvin Klein. The Hollywood kingpin and his wife play host to a retinue of top stars and their families each summer, the Clintons and Gwyneth Paltrow and her [...]

Room to spare: share accommodation

We recently highlighted the growing popularity of share accommodation on the premise that it’s a great way to bring in an extra bit of cash if your finances are a bit tight.
This obviously works both ways, and maybe you’re someone that could save by sharing with someone at their place, rather than have that empty [...]

How to be a (successful) property developer

BECOMING a property developer can be as simple as buying a block of land and slapping a house on it or buying an existing house, knocking it down and building a new one.
However, becoming a successful property developer is a different story. It requires time, research, patience, and a willingness to take calculated risks.
The president [...]

The next big thing: how you can find it

Is innovation about killer ideas — something big that will turn the world on its head? Or is it simpler than that?
Odds are we won’t be able to come up with groundbreaking innovative concepts like the Apple iPod or Cirque du Soleil every week. We need to keep looking for them, of course, but we [...]

Let there be light: the window that isn’t really there!

This is an artificial window that uses electricity to create a simulation of a video using electroluminescent sheets. The blinds are all set to blind you from reality. No more chirping birds or distant mountains for you anymore. However, for those who live in closed rooms, this may seem nothing short of redemption.

Karbon Kitchen Faucet

Ever had the problem of trying to fill oversized pots in tiny sinks?  Well, the Kohler invention has a smart robotic arm that can move the faucet to any place that you wish to fill the liquid from.

And not only is this faucet practical, it’s also more stylish and has a trendy nozzle that is similar to [...]