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professional designers are brilliant room to merge the two functions and the form of amazing results. In this eight-part series, I call room in London , I draw from my experience in the treatment of certain bad to explain the best designers in London, this exciting field. This last article is about the psychology of design.

It can be really interesting to talk with professional bathroom designers in London and learn to see the psychology of their role. Many designers talk about how a fabulous bathroom design begins with a shot of imagination. They are silent on the fascinating charm of a well-designed rooms, with non-conventional or reflected little things really make the house feel like a home.

One of the really big questions about the conception of happiness is, if you choose painted walls or wallpaper or bathroom tile design for new projects. The color is considered the number one. It can be used to form part presents some interesting features and dimensions of the bathroom, attractive London designed sanitary toilet or favorite pieces of art. Humor is an important consideration in this bathroom design connection – how the client wants the feeling of happiness while enjoying their new space bathroom to achieve?

Bath professional designers in London often refer to “challenge level” – meaning with which they close the problem of London spas smaller and sometimes rather awkwardly shaped. The designer can choose to respond by focusing on a small number of large sanitary space seem extravagant. In such cases, a bathroom design can be made deeper, soft colors to create an atmosphere, but mild to benefit from dividing lines or contours.

The final goal of all design projects bathroom was simple but ambitious – and our inner world is a happy place. Fabulous interiors that meet our needs and support our well-being have a real meaning and significance which goes far beyond the bathroom design itself. London is home to over 7.5 million people, many of which have baths at home that could benefit from a refresher. Fortunately people are as friends and neighbors useful, they are more energy at work, and are generally involved members of London society.

This puts an end to my eight-pronged series entitled “Understanding your bathroom.” Thanks for reading.

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of Interior Design in London

professional designers are brilliant room to merge the two functions and the form of amazing results. In this eight-part series, I call room in London , I draw from my experience in the treatment of certain bad to explain the best designers in London, this exciting field. The first section to imagine the possibilities.

Back in the day, was the most extravagant thing about a London newspaper a bathroom, an oil lamp and a tub of hot soapy water. But thanks to the field of bathroom design professional, which has long since changed. Today, with the Londoners packing hours more each week, the bathroom is becoming a sanctuary. More and more people to rent bathroom design high-end special extras that add a touch of class to add the default appearance.

The bathroom professional designer starts with imagination. Today, models can mean many different things – in London, the spa, bath retreat, and the multi-bath (with plasma TV and surround sound!) Some of the most popular concepts. And each of these bath accessories requires special design, swirls of underfloor heating in warming drawers for towels. In addition, the plumbing has become astonishingly varied and stimulating. Do not forget to include in the design of bathrooms, showers steam showers and outdoor pools panel. The hotel-inspired bathroom design thinking. There is a movement to end the standard mass-produced cabinets vanity cabinets and toiletries. Instead, bathroom design in London today is more chic to water tanks and vehicles with fabric-covered stools. Coffee-style hotel and micro-fridges are even designed directly into the walls or cabinets bathroom!

In addition, home-entertainment technology brings a whole new room in London. Home audio-visual system complete with flat-screen TV and surround sound standard. Some bathrooms they like, a DVD / TV system stored discreetly in a cupboard under the sink. Perfect to catch the Tokyo Stock Exchange on CNN as you pull in the morning!

In my next article in this series entitled: I will examine the role of color in the community of London bathroom design, “Understanding and designer bathroom.”

Zillow Inc.’s initial public
offering, slated to price today, will do more than raise money
for the real estate website. It will signal whether other small
dot-com companies can join the IPO frenzy.

Newly minted public companies LinkedIn Corp., Pandora Media
Inc. and HomeAway Inc. all had valuations of at least $2 billion
when they started trading, along with quarterly sales of more
than $50 million. Zillow, which had first-quarter revenue of
$11.3 million, will probably be valued at about $460 million.

Venture capitalists are watching to see how much interest
money managers have in smaller dot-coms and whether financial
analysts will cover them. Of the handful of sub-$500 million
companies to hold IPOs so far this year, most have seen their
shares decline.

“To see more offerings like that, there needs to be an
ecosystem,” said Maha Ibrahim, a partner at venture firm Canaan
Partners in Menlo Park, California. Institutional investors need
to be equipped to deal with small-cap stocks, “and you need to
have a richer analyst community,” she said.

Zillow expects to raise as much as $62.3 million in its
IPO. Founded in 2004 by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, the company
makes money by selling subscriptions to real estate and mortgage
professionals. Zillow also sells advertising on the site. It has
a database of about 100 million U.S. homes that potential buyers
and renters can browse, and Zillow lets consumers connect with
real estate agents.

Katie Curnutte, a spokeswoman for the Seattle-based
company, declined to comment, citing a pre-IPO quiet period.

‘We’ll Be Watching’

Trulia Inc., a San Francisco-based competitor, will be one
of the startups monitoring the offering. Trulia has discussed
plans to go public itself, said spokesman Ken Shuman, who
declined to provide a revenue figure or potential valuation.

“There are more agents buying advertising and more agent
engagement on Trulia than there is at Zillow,” he said. “We
feel even more optimistic about the opportunity for our
business. We’ll be watching just like everybody else.”

The outcome of Zillow could help other startups decide if
they should file for IPOs or stay private. The list may include
companies like EHarmony Inc., Etsy Inc., Redfin and TheLadders,
based on their valuations on private-company exchanges.

In the 1990s, it was more common for companies of Zillow’s
size to go public. There were fund managers focused on small-cap
stocks and more boutique banks to lead the offerings, provide
analyst coverage and trade the shares. After the dot-com bubble
burst, the industry contracted. Moreover, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002 raised the legal and auditing fees for public companies.

Too Small?

Kevin Landis, who’s been investing in technology stocks for
17 years at Firsthand Funds in San Jose, California, said a
decade ago he would have invested in companies valued at less
than $500 million. Now, that’s unlikely.

“Throw in a little inflation and a lot of Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance and that might be too small a number,” said Landis,
whose firm manages about $260 million in assets.

On a price-to-sales basis, Zillow is cheaper than other
recent IPOs. At a market capitalization of $460 million, Zillow
would be valued at about 10 times 2011 sales, assuming revenue
for the first quarter holds true for the rest of year. That
compares with a 26 ratio for LinkedIn, 13.3 for Pandora and 16
for HomeAway.

CafePress’s IPO

CafePress Inc., an e-commerce service that lets users
customize T-shirts and tote bags, is another smaller dot-com
pushing ahead with an IPO. The San Mateo, California-based
company announced plans last month to raise $80 million in a
stock offering. It had first-quarter revenue of $32 million.

Seven technology companies have gone public this year with
valuations of less than $500 million. Four of them now trade
below their offer price. Of the 14 IPOs with valuations above
$500 million, meanwhile, 10 have traded higher since their IPO.

It’s not clear which companies would be ready and willing
to try for an IPO if Zillow is a success. SharesPost Inc., an
exchange for shares of private companies, shows a range of
startups trading at valuations of less than $1 billion. Some of
them may want to make the leap to public stock exchanges.

Dating site EHarmony is valued at $526 million on the
exchange. Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade goods, has an
implied value of $260.3 million, based on a trade in March. A
purchase of stock in TheLadders in May valued the job-search
site at $237 million. A January contract valued Redfin, a real
estate site, at $227.1 million.

‘How Low?’

It’s hard to tell if public investors would be interested
in companies that small, said Jeffrey Crowe, a partner at
Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto, California.

“The question is: How low does it go?” he said. “Any
venture firm wants to see how those guys do and ask if that will
open the market for other companies of that profile to get
out.”

For Zillow, the company’s challenges extend beyond its
small size. It has lost money every year since its inception,
including $826,000 in the first quarter. Competition is also
picking up from Trulia and Realtor.com.

Trulia’s Shuman said his company has more real estate
agents as paying subscribers. And Zillow has lost more money. In
its almost seven-year history, Zillow has lost $79.5 million, or
2 1/2 times the amount of money that Trulia has raised.

To attract public investors, smaller companies need to
prove they can grow quickly and become profitable, said Sharon Wienbar, a managing director at Scale Venture Partners in Foster
City, California. She’s an investor in online marketing company
Reply! Inc., which filed for its IPO in 2010 and has yet to go
public.

“In a relatively smooth market, where portfolio managers
have a reason to believe growth will be sustained and companies
will become more profitable, you can get companies of this size
public,” Wienbar said. “Zillow will be a new mark for the
market.”

To contact the reporter on this story:
Ari Levy in San Francisco at
alevy5@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Tom Giles at
tgiles5@bloomberg.net

Police found human remains in this home in Markham, that were later cofirmed to be those of abducted and missing real estate agent Tony Han. (July 14, 2011)

Henry Stancu/The Toronto Star

Police have identified human remains found in the basement of a Markham home this week as those of missing real estate agent Jianguo (Tony) Han.

Three men were charged in Han’s death even before police received the DNA tests to determine the identity of the remains.

But Peel police said they had enough evidence to proceed with manslaughter charges against three men arrested this week.

Han had been missing since he was abducted from Mississauga on Jan. 19.

Senthuran Sabesan, 23, and Sohiab Malick, 21, of Waterloo and Gobinath Shanthkumar, 23, of Newmarket, were remanded in custody Thursday after brief appearances in Brampton court.

They each face a manslaughter charge in Han’s death, two counts of kidnapping with intent to ransom and aggravated assault in the wounding of Xiu Jun (Johnny) Fei, who was also abducted in January.

Han, who worked for HomeLife Landmark Realty in Markham, was trying to sell a $2.4 million Mississauga mansion for Fei when the two men were snatched from the Featherston Dr. home. Fei, from North York, was found safely in Don Mills a few days later, but Han had been missing since.

An OPP cadaver dog led detectives to the basement of a home on Edward Jeffreys Ave. in the village of Markham where human remains were found.

Police had originally searched the interior and dug up the backyard of the two-storey brick home in May and found nothing beneath an outdoor shed.

Tenants of the home, near Hwy. 48 and 16th Ave., were ordered out by police on Monday and remains were uncovered the following day in the basement.

“We knew somebody was missing because the police told us they were looking for a man when they searched the house and backyard last May,” said a neighbour who didn’t want to be identified.

A beige metal garden shed has been shifted from the corner of the back yard and gravel was piled in a mound next to where forensic officers had dug a hole in their earlier search.

It was a confusing day at the Brampton courthouse Thursday where lawyers for two of the suspects told the Toronto Star they were told by police the previous day that their clients had been charged with first-degree murder in the case.

At the same time, police continued to say they had laid no charges against the men.

It wasn’t until mid-afternoon, when the handcuffed trio appeared in court, that it was confirmed they face manslaughter counts in Han’s death.

“Essentially, the circumstances that led the investigators to that residence and the evidence and circumstances found within that residence . . . the decision was made to lay the charge of manslaughter,” said Peel Sgt. Zahir Shah.

Police had been tight-lipped about the case for months, only revealing this week that they arrested Sabesan in January on two counts of kidnapping with intent to ransom. Those charges were re-laid Thursday.

On Friday, police released photos of another suspect involved in the case. The wanted man, who police describe as Asian, drove a red minivan from the kidnapping scene.

In the photos, the man is seen walking with Wei Guo Wu, 43, who is also sought in the kidnapping. Police say he may be hiding in Vancouver.

Police also revealed this week that two other people who were arrested over the past six months in the kidnappings couldn’t be identified because of a court-imposed publication ban. But Shah declined to explain how a publication ban prevents the naming of two adults charged with the kidnapping of Han and Fei.

Police found signs of a struggle in the Featherston Dr. home near the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus on Jan. 20 after family members reported the North York men missing.

Malick is to appear next in court on Monday. Sabesan is to return to court on Tuesday. Shanthkumar will appear next on Aug. 2.

With files from Henry Stancu and Amanda Kwan

NEW YORK, Jul 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, announced today that
Jeffrey Altman has joined the firm as a Managing Director in the newly
formed Real Estate Strategic Advisory Group.

Mr. Altman, who spent the past 13 years at Lazard Ltd., will focus on
merger and acquisition advisory, capital raising and other strategic
advisory mandates for public and private real estate companies, lenders
and investors.

“Jeff has a tremendous track record of exceptional client service in
complex real estate transactions,” said Matthew Niemann, Managing
Director and Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Real Estate Strategic Advisory
Group. “As deal activity continues to pick up in both healthy and
distressed real estate, Jeff’s expertise will be a valuable addition to
our already strong team of advisors.”

Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 MA advisor for all U.S. real estate,
lodging and leisure transactions, as well as the No. 1 investment
banking restructuring advisor globally, according to 2010 rankings by
Thomson Reuters. Houlihan Lokey’s board recently combined all of the
firm’s real estate advisory services into one group, led by Mr. Niemann.

“We have strengthened our transactional real estate talent and combined
them into one group to provide a broader array of services to our
clients in the ever fluid area of real estate mergers, acquisitions,
finance and restructurings,” said Robert Hotz, Senior Managing Director,
Global Co-Head Corporate Finance and Co-Chairman of Houlihan Lokey.

Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Altman worked on more than $50
billion of real estate and lodging-related transactions, most recently
advising Extended Stay Hotels and Highland Hospitality in their merger,
acquisition and restructuring transactions. He has also advised Centro
Properties, Starwood Hotels Resorts, Mack-Cali Realty, Town and
Country Trust and JDN Realty Corporation, among others.

“I am excited to be joining Houlihan Lokey at a time when the firm is
expanding around the world,” said Mr. Altman. “My experience fits
perfectly into the firm’s market-leading Real Estate Strategic Advisory
Group and I look forward to growing the business.”

Mr. Altman joined Lazard in 1998. Prior to that, he was an associate in
Arthur Andersen’s Corporate Finance Group. Mr. Altman is a member of the
New York Hospitality Council, the National Association of Real Estate
Investment Trusts and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He
is a frequent speaker at real estate and lodging conferences. Mr. Altman
earned a bachelor’s degree with honors and an MBA with highest honors
from Washington University in St. Louis.

About Houlihan Lokey

Houlihan Lokey is an international investment bank with expertise in
mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and
valuation. The firm is ranked globally as the No. 1 restructuring
advisor, the No. 1 MA fairness opinion advisor over the past 10 years,
and the No. 1 MA advisor for U.S. transactions under $1 billion,
according to Thomson Reuters. Houlihan Lokey has 14 offices and more
than 800 employees in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm
serves more than 1,000 clients each year, ranging from closely held
companies to Global 500 corporations. For more information, visit
www.HL.com .

SOURCE: Houlihan Lokey

        Houlihan Lokey
        Michael Utley, 310-789-5765
        MUtley@HL.com

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