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Now that BC Assessment is done analyzingeveryone's homes for 2021, we decided to find outwhere themost expensive homes residein B.C.s northern capital.

Most of the top 10most valuable residential property homes in Prince George are located inCollege Heights,then a few pop-up placeslike Hart Highway,Red Rock and Chief Lake Road.

Some of the homes are lakefront properties that have docks and some are expansive rural acreages, while a few others boast spectacular square footage right in town.

A few of the homes are properties with long driveways that you can't see from the road but thanks to Google, we can get an idea of what they look like.

In Prince George, all 10 properties are valued at $17,893,000.

In 2020, all top 10 properties in Prince George were valued at $15,702,000, a difference of more than $2 million.

Northern B.C. did see a moderate increase in property values this year with the average valueof a home in Prince George, specifically,increasing by seven per cent.

The highest-valued property in northern B.C. is an acreage in Dawson Creek valued at $4.4 million followed by a lakeside house in Fort. St. John valued at $2.6 million.

The report reflects market value as of July 1, 2020, according to BC Assessment's website.

With that said, here are 10 very nice homes:

Built in 2012, this custom two-story house has four bedrooms and four baths, sitting on 3.62 acres.

In 2020, it was worth $2,187,000.

Built in 2002, this one-story house has four bedrooms and five baths.

In 2020, it was worth $2,128,000.

Built in 2010, this two-story custom home has four bedrooms and six bathrooms.

In 2020, it was worth $1,740,000.

Built in 2009, this custom two-story house has six bedrooms, five baths and sits on 1.81 acres.

In 2020, it was worth $1,787,000.

Built in 1998, this one-story custom house has three bedrooms and five bathrooms.

In 2020, it was worth $1,441,000.

Built in 2011, this two-story house has six bedrooms and six baths.

In 2020, it was worth $1,436,000.

This two-story semi-custom home built in 2006 has four bedrooms and three baths and sits on 29.4 acres.

In 2020, it was worth $1,486,000.

Built in 2014, this 1.5 story house has six bedrooms and six baths and sits on 92.44 acres.

In 2020, it was worth $1,431,000.

Built in 2001, this two-story house has eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

In 2020, it was worth $1,295,000.

Built in 2008, this two-story house has four bedrooms and four bathrooms.

In 2020, it was worth $1,241,000.

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AVENTURA, Fla., Jan. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Pea Architecture & Engineering Corporation (PAE https://paecorporation.com/) announced that founder and President Manuel Pea would be traveling to Dubai to help facilitate a series of major upcoming project developments for the company. PAE is a boutique architectural firm known for designs that exemplify both excellence and elegance in their style and execution.Led by the young but ambitious designer, PAE plans to introduce the company's architectural vision of simple luxury paired with energy efficient utility to the thriving architectural wonderland of Dubai.

"Beauty and luxury, merged with simplicity and functionality that's a signature design aesthetic for us," said Pea. "But what exactly does that mean? Well, it can a mean a lot of different approaches and theories. But some of our clients express a desire to live as nearly off-the-grid as they can, or they wish to lower their energy and carbon footprints in other significant ways. And sometimes they're hesitant to ask for these designs because there's a lingering notion out there that energy-efficient can't be beautiful. And that's just not true. Art and design are absolutely linked; beauty can be part of any design. An architect's job is to first envision the completed project whether it's an addition, a brand-new home, or an entire office complex and then find a way to get to the end goal in a way that incorporates both the client's desires, and a sense of artistic style. Dubai is a great place to see this in action all the time because the city is very welcoming to new architectural design approaches."

PAE: Completed Projects

PAE has already finished multiple successful projects in the Florida region, including a medical office in Miramar; commercial warehouse renovations, condominiums, and a car wash in North Miami; Oxford Courts in North Miami; Plaza Maria Condominium in Miami; and landscaping and residential homes in Miami Beach. Some other featured projects include:

For more information on upcoming company events, or future plans related to the latest design projects, follow PAE on social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.

About Pea Architecture & Engineering Corporation (PAE)

PeaArchitecture & Engineering Corporation is a team of highly experienced and talented professionals who are dedicated to providing excellence in both design and planning services for construction development projects across the globe. Working with a wide range of successful businesses and entrepreneurs, PAE specializes in providing landscape, single-family, multi-family, and custom homes, as well as commercial, industrial, and mixed-use developments. Combining simplicity and luxury, PAE creates personal spaces that are challenging yet engaging; with color, texture, and light as proportions that come together to express the heart of each project's vision. Learn more at: http://www.PAECorporation.com.

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Grand Central Park, a community of Johnson Development Corp. in Conroe, opened a new section planned for 148 homes near the upcoming Lake House amenity complex.

The expansion in the Central Village area comes as home sales in Grand Central Park rose by 93 percent in 2020 to 205. The sales were up from 106 in 2019 and the highest since opening in 2016, according to the developer.

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The new section, where houses are already under construction, will offer homes from the $250,000s by Coventry Homes, Drees Custom Homes, Highland Homes, Perry Homes, Trendmaker Homes and Westin Homes. Sizes range from 1,500 square feet to 3,800 square feet.

The Lake House will have a resort-style pool, fitness room, yoga and event lawn, playground and pavilion for events and resident gatherings. The opening, originally planned in 2020, is set for this spring. Marcel Boulevard, a lifestyle development with boutique retailers, restaurants and executive office space is on track to open this year.

The 2,046-acre Grand Central Park is near Interstate 45 North and South Loop 336, five miles north of The Woodlands.

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A Million Dollar View without the Price Tag!! This immaculate 4bed 3bath custom Montana home sits in the middle of almost 130 acres for ultimate privacy, with multiple outbuildings and boasts some of the best views in the valley. The home features large bedrooms, including a master ensuite on the main floor with a large soaking tub, 3 bathrooms, a main floor office and laundry room, family rooms on both floors and an over-sized deep tuck under garage. The open floor plan showcases the large upgraded kitchen, walk in pantry, dining area and sizeable living room with vaulted ceilings. You never have to miss a Mission Mountain sunrise from the large living room windows and mountain facing deck or a jaw dropping sunset from the West facing covered patio. No lack of views or privacy here!! This property is already subdivided into three parcels and offers a very nice pivot, 30hp pump, outbuildings, corrals, chute, alley and tub if desired. The pond features some of the best waterfowl and wildlife viewing, fishing, as well as all the irrigation you could need. Outbuildings included are a 30x40 shop with power and wood stove for heat, 24x30 lean-to and 24x48 equipment shed. This home is centrally located in the middle of many recreational opportunites, yet in the country with a ton of privacy! Only 6 miles from Ronan, 11 miles from Flathead Lake and 6 miles to the Flathead River, just to mention a few places. Make this property your dream hobby farm/ranch, horse property, dog training facility, private oasis, or live in the beautiful custom house and lease or sell the other pieces. The opportunities are endless here!! This home is also listed with 130 acres, please see MLS# 22100257

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A new series of online videos will be taking a tiny home on a 16-city Canadian tour in a project that will spread the wordabout the scaled-down housing option and end with a giveaway of the custom-built unit.

Kenton Zerbin, an Edmontonian who teaches tiny house workshops, isthe producer of The Tiny House Master Planproject, which is getting help fromateam of NAIT students as well as from business sponsorships.

The premise of the series?Build a tiny home that doubles as a mobile entertainment centreand then take it on the road.

Edmonton will be the tour's first stop.

Entering the giveaway is as simple as filling out a form on the website and subscribing to the project's YouTubechannel.

"I love the idea of providing a moral uplift for people in these times," Zerbin said in an interview with CBC's Radio Active on Monday.

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The planned mobile unit includes a pop-up stage, sound system and FM transmitter that could be used for a drive-in movie theatre or other entertainment.

"In the iterations of the design, it very quickly became apparent that we got to make more than just a state-of-the-art house, we got to use it for this community cause," Zerbin said.

"So people could come to have a concert event that could literally pop up anywhere."

Plans are being made so people can attend from their car in line, to ensure adherence toany possible COVID-19 restrictions.

Zerbin has been teaching about sustainable living for about eight years and saidhe has seen interest grow.

Edmonton, he said, is one of the most tiny house-friendly cities in Canada.In 2019, city council approved zoning bylaw changes aimed at allowing for further development of tiny homes.

Zerbin had intended to take his work to the United States this year but COVID-19 put a halt to those plans.

He started teaching online and then got into videography, which he realized was a great way to reach a lot of people.

"That's the story [that] led up to the show," he said. "Because it was like, 'Well, how do I reach people for free and still teach them and excite them?'"

Zerbin submitted the proposed project as an internship option for NAIT.

"When that kind of popped-up on the list that was my absolute first one," said Amanda Keys, a NAITstudent pursuing a bachelor of technology management. She is working as the project'sgeneral manager and hopes to one day own a tiny house of her own.

Besides managing the capstone project, Keys also helps seek out companies for sponsorship. So far, the project has met about 50 per cent of its funding goals.

"It's been really interesting because it's a lot more involved," Keys said. "When you think about, 'Oh yeah, you just build the house on the little trailer. It's so easy.'

"It's a lot more complicated."

The tiny house is still in the design phase but Zerbin hopes to get the show on the road by April 9.

"Unless things get really seriously locked down, I think we're going to be OK," he said.

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Modular housebuilder TopHat has been appointed by developer Urban & Civic at a 6,200 home development in Warwickshire.

TopHat will build 38 homes as part of the first phase of the 1,200 acre scheme in Houlton, a joint venture between Urban & Civic and Aviva Investors.

The homes, which will be the developers first built using modular off-site construction, will be manufactured in single-storey modules at TopHats factory in Derby before being transported to Houlton later this month.

Urban & Civic said the homes will provide significant improvements in energy efficiency over current building standards.

Housebuilders Davidsons Homes, Redrow Homes, Morris Homes and Crest Nicholson are also working on the scheme, which will include a secondary school, two primary schools, a nursery and a convenience store.

A former director at TopHat, Mike Ormesher, launched an alliance of 18 northern housing associations earlier this month with a goal of building 9,000 offsite homes a year by 2023.

The Offsite Homes Alliance, which is being driven by housing association Great Places, says it will provide a customisable catalogue of designs for its partners with a focus on as many MMC and offsite technologies as possible.

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Stacey Cassidy on modular housing in Scotland and its role in creating a more sustainable housing sector.

According to the UK Green Building Council, the built environment weighs heavily on the UKs carbon emissions, contributing up to 40% of our carbon footprint. Given the imperative to reach net-zero carbon emissions in Scotland by 2045 to tackle climate change, the property sector will need to play its part. Whilst this challenge looms large, the growth of modular and offsite manufacturing can provide a solution to the housing sectors environmental impact, helping to create a more sustainable economy.

There are three main ways in which modular housing can contribute to this through offsite manufacturing, by developing energy efficient homes and by ensuring a better use of raw materials.

Concentrating fabrication in offsite facilities provides key advantages, notably the opportunity to use clean energy for most of the construction process by ensuring factories are powered by renewables. Such industrial facilities are ideal for the co-location of clean infrastructure (such as wind turbines, solar PV), reducing reliance on carbonised energy sources to power development.

Offsite construction also helps create economies of scale and fosters the development of more efficient local supply chains, both of which can reduce carbon emissions. Indeed, a report published last year by the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre revealed 15 of the largest manufacturing companies operating in Scotland reported that 85% of the products sourced came from suppliers within Scotland.

The decrease in transportation brought about by bringing building for numerous developments under one roof can also minimise traffic and pollution, while retaining a skilled, factory labour force raises productivity levels to help diminish both financial and environmental costs. The study found that offsite manufacturing can reduce the embodied emissions of building materials by 86%, that of the transportation of building materials by 18% and the resource consumption of equipment and techniques by 10%.

Modular can therefore impact on the sectors fossil fuel emissions during housebuilding but it can equally do so during the propertys lifecycle. Indeed, one of the core benefits of modular housing is that large volumes of homes can be designed with energy efficiency at their heart from the outset. Modern materials can be used en-masse to create highly energy efficient units that reduce heat loss and energy wastage, in turn cutting energy consumption and bills for occupiers.

To take this further, modular homes could even be designed to be carbon neutral from inception, powered by solar panels. These sustainable homes already exist in traditional housebuilding but the efficiencies enabled by offsite manufacturing offer the possibility of such homes becoming far more widespread at an affordable price.

Another important environmental advantage of modular housing is greater efficiency in the use of raw materials. Not only can offsite manufacturing allow for centralised resourcing to ensure the use of sustainably sourced materials at a large scale, but it has been shown to enhance recycling rates during housebuilding, cutting waste and carbon emissions (as fewer raw materials need to be brought in).

Developing homes made of units that are easier to assemble and deconstruct also means that widespread recycling of materials will be possible upon dis-assembly. Indeed, the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre report found modular construction to be more resource-efficient, with 86% of waste materials recycled compared to 75% in traditional construction. Given how the industry accounts for approximately 50% of all waste in Scotland, this recycling uptick would greatly contribute to Holyroods Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.

There is clearly much to be optimistic about but more needs to be done to bring modular housing to maturity. The Scottish Government reports that 80% of new homes in Scotland are already built using offsite construction but most of these only make use of timber frames built offsite rather than wholesale modular units. For modular housing to really take-off, several barriers need to be taken down.

The first of these is the large investment needed to put large modular housing factories into operation and ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity. Another concern is the fact that once these facilities are up and running developers need to pay a large portion of the costs of development upfront to the manufacturer before onsite assembly begins, which can have negative consequences on demand, especially in a risk-averse context. The lack of local skilled labour and local supply chains also provides an obstacle to the rapid acceleration of modular housing.

These challenges are surmountable however and in recent years Scotland has seen numerous modular projects take-off from Edinburgh to the Highlands, notably in the social and affordable housing sector. Businesses and the government now need to come together to formulate an industrial strategy capable of unleashing modular housing.

A national modular housing industry, rooted in local resourcing and distribution networks, can play a key role in making the Scottish housing sector more sustainable reducing financial costs for businesses and households while minimising housings environmental footprint and maximising energy efficiency and quality.

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The site, located in Thurrock, has detailed planning permission in place for 153 modular homes, comprising 138 houses and 15 apartments.

The development will provide the local community with a mix of two, three and four-bedroom homes.

All 153 homes being delivered are proposed to be made available for shared ownership or affordable rent.

All homes will be manufactured along production lines at ilke Homes 250,000 sq ft factory in North Yorkshire.

By spring 2022, ilke Homes will transport the energy-efficient, factory-built modular homes to the site, located on Victoria Road in Stanford-le-Hope.

The proposals at Stanford-le-Hope dedicate around 2.6 hectares to open space, which will serve to enhance the ecological biodiversity of the site and provide a desirable setting for future residents.

Tom Heathcote, executive director of development at ilke Homes, said: Its great to carry ilke Homes momentum from 2020 into the New Year with the announcement of our first site acquisition in the South East of England.

This scheme will demonstrate that offsite manufacturing is capable of delivering beautiful places thanks to flexible designs that can react to different streetscapes and local character.

Whats more, due to our accredited method of delivery, we will be able to significantly reduce the carbon emissions produced during the construction programme by reducing time spent on site and vehicular movements in the surrounding communities.

Work is anticipated to begin on site in the autumn of 2021, subject to ilke Homes securing planning for minor amends to the approved Reserved Matters.

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Dear Readers,

You may already have a trust, but it's very important to understand that once you make a trust, the job is only half done. For your trust to work as advertised, it must be funded with your assets. Today's column is about doing just that. As a rule of thumb, everything goes into the trust, with a few exceptions.

First, keep your day-to-day checking account outside of the trust and add your successor trustee to the title of the account as a joint owner. If you are married, keep the account in both of your names and wait to add someone to the account when either of you starts slowing down. You know, when you no longer read your mail, pay your bills, and read this column.

If you do not like the idea of adding someone to your checking account, then maybe you need to reconsider whether or not that person should be named as successor trustee. If you can't trust someone now, don't you dare trust that person when your incapacitated or dead.

Second, don't bother transferring into the trust your automobiles and boats registered with the DMV, or modular homes registered with the Department of Housing. They do not count against the $166,250 limit that triggers a requirement for probate administration in California, so there is no real need to do this. These assets can be collected 40 days or more after your death using DMV Form REG-5 or a Small Estate Declaration under Probate Code section 13101.

Third, and perhaps most importantly, you cannot transfer to your trust retirement accounts such as IRA's, 401(k)'s, 457(b)'s and the like. These are tax-deferred or tax-exempt retirement accounts. Transferring one to a trust means cashing it in and paying all that income tax. In addition, you probably should not name your trust as a retirement account beneficiary unless your lawyer advises you to do so. Instead, name your children or other beneficiaries directly, unless you have a minor or disabled beneficiary who should not or cannot have direct access to the money upon your death.

Incidentally, life insurance and annuities can go either way. You can name the trust as beneficiary, or name beneficiaries directly. Sometimes it's good for them to pay into your trust, to give the trustee more liquid cash while consolidating and selling those of your assets that will be sold.

Other than that, everything should be in the trust. Your lawyer should prepare and record deeds conveying your California real properties into the trust. The rest is up to you. Most lawyers provide their clients with a fancy three-ring binder with the law firm's name emblazoned in big letters (We do this too). Use that binder as a tool. When you visit your bank or broker to fund your trust, take the trust binder with you. It should have everything you need, and financial institutions are well aware of how to title accounts in a trust, although they will abbreviate the name of the trust. It's OK. They know what they are doing.

If you do all of this, and fund your trust correctly, then when you pass your successor trustee will have an easier job to do, and it will save your family money.

Len Tillem and Rosie McNichol are elder law attorneys. Contact them at Tillem McNichol & Brown, 846 Broadway, Sonoma, CA 95476, by phone at (707) 996-4505, or on the internet at http://www.lentillem.com.

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