Many North American cities can already be presented in 3D - mainly the inner cities of bigger metropoles. Germany has also started to build 3D models of inner cities. Hamburg and Berlin were the first German metropoles in 2007 which could be discovered in 3 dimensions. Various other cities copied this strategy to present themselves to target groups as tourists and architecture enthousiasts for example. Even smaller German cities as Wiesbaden in Hesse begin to create their urban environment in the world wide network of Google Earth.

The internet information provider comStore has published a ranking of German real estate portals, based on their traffic:

1. ImmobilienScout24.de
2. Immonet.de
3. Immowelt.de
4. Immopool.de
5. WG-gesucht.de
6. Immozentral.com
7. Studenten-WG.de
8. wohnung-jetzt.de
9. s-immobilien.de
10. immobilienmarkt.de
11. my-next-home.de
12. wohnungs-schnaeppchen.com

Due to the special FAQ site in the community, the team decided to remove all FAQ content from the ourbania blog. Therefor, from now on, you will find frequently asked questions only here: http://ourbania.com/faq

Nevertheless, for certain temporary issues, special FAQs and news concerning updates will still be posted in the blog section.

If you have ever thought about spending more than 2 Billion Dollars on your family home: this is the solution. The Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, head of the petrochemical company Reliance Industries, invested this sum in his dream family "house".

There are quite a few interesting new websites in the www which could be also of interest to you. WYP for example offers a unique community which gives users the opportunity to buy property.

Currently, one hectar of land costs € 9.95. It is limited to the virtual world, so there is no real ownership - but why not becoming a virtual landlord?

If you have ever been to Tokyo or Japan in general, you might have realized that parking in the crowded megacities is a little bit different compared to European or North American car parks. Usually, European car drivers drive into the city, get their parking ticket at the entry lane and steer their vehicle into the lot. Well, due to the lack of space in urban areas especially in Japan, developers, urban planners and technology companies built parks under different circumstances.

There is a number of interesting events coming up over the next time on the globe. Therefor I want to keep you updated about fairs, conferences and general real estate, urban planning and architecture events.

• Urban Green Spaces Conference - Sofia, Bulgaria (17. - 18.04.2008)
• Cityscape Asia - Singapor, Singapor (15. - 17.04.2008)
  
  

At the international real estate fair Mipim 2008 in Cannes,
France, ourbania was successfully presented to the audience. At a
co-operation stand with the German Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology, our founding partner Eurohypo (who managed the booth)
underlined the idea of ourbania as community for real estate
enthusiasts. Eurohypo draws a positive balance of the visitors'
reactions.

What a good milestone in the history of ourbania.com! We crossed the line of more than 500 citizens. This is quite good news.

We started this year by breaking the 300 mark in terms of urban items as well as citizens. Currently we are able to present more that 400 urban items! So, help us to continue that way of success here...

Thanks to all of you!

It is time to present the people behind the scenes of ourbania.com. Therefore, we thought about giving you an impression of who we are...