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SURFSIDE, Fla. — Surfside Mayor Shlomo Danzinger traveled to Dubai late last year to meet with the developer hoping to bring ultra-luxury condos to the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse, an unusual trip for a small-town mayor that several town officials and victims’ family members said they knew nothing about. Danzinger said he met in late October with Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani to discuss the possibility of placing a memorial to the 98 collapse victims at least partially on the site. DAMAC Properties, the company Sajwani leads, gave Danzinger a tour of Dubai to see building......

Thinking of buying a home in the Bay Area? You’ll need to make at least $250,000 a year to comfortably afford it. That’s by far the highest homebuyer salary necessary anywhere in the country, and more than triple the average required nationwide income of $75,000 a year, according to a recent report by mortgage data website HSH.com. The Bay Area real estate market has long been among the most expensive in the world, and owning a home in the region has become out of reach for even more buyers during the pandemic. Over the past two-plus years, home values in the Bay Area and across the country so......

NEW YORK — Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine once again called for expanded sanctions against Russia to allow the seizure of oligarchs’ pricey real estate holdings in New York. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second week, Levine demanded more brutal action to target cronies of strongman Vladimir Putin. “We’re still waiting for the U.S. gov’t to place the broad circle of oligarchs connected to Putin on the sanctions list,” Levine tweeted. “This is the prerequisite to seizing the ultra luxe apartments many hold in Manhattan.” “Let’s do it NOW,” he added. In the UK, home to se......