Category: Real Estate
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A Medieval Castle for Less Than a Florida Beach House
There is a particular kind of person who collects castles the way others collect watches. Sir Robert Worcester, the American-born founder of the polling firm MORI, was one of them. In 1996 he bought Allington Castle, a medieval fortress in Kent that had slipped into disrepair, and spent nearly three decades bringing it back. He…
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Saving for a House Before Learning to Tie Shoes
Coldwell Banker, the century-old American real estate brokerage (founded in 1906 and now part of Compass International Holdings), has published its 2026 American Dream Report, based on a Harris Poll of 2,060 US adults surveyed in early September. The headline reads that 82% of parents of children aged five and under are saving, or have…
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Mandarin Oriental Is Collecting Houses (Some of Them Monasteries)
Mandarin Oriental, the Hong Kong hotel group with a fan as its emblem, has been quietly building a collection of private homes it vets, services and rents out as if they were rooms in one of its hotels. This autumn it added another dozen, which takes the Exceptional Homes collection to 44 villas, castles, farmhouses…
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Luxury Homes Lift a Flat US Housing Market
The luxury market has found a way to be simultaneously booming and invisible in the national average. It is the quiet kind of prosperity. The national housing market is nearly flat. The top of it is not. When a national price index moves by a quarter of a percent, it is tempting to call it…
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The Garage Gets a Membership Card: Porsche Design Builds Clubhouses for Car Collectors
When a parking space becomes a studio, a club and a social calendar, you are no longer storing a car. You are joining a lifestyle. There was a time when the height of car-collecting luxury was a heated garage and a good cover. That time has been politely escorted out by a concept with a…
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Brooklyn Gets a Ritz, and Manhattan’s Hotel Brands Are Watching From Across the River
The borough’s first branded residences are arriving in a 1909 landmark. The real question is who follows. New York’s hotel-branded condo scene has long had a postcode problem: it lives in Manhattan. On September 15, that changed on paper, with plans for a Ritz-Carlton address on Montague Street. The News, Decoded The Ritz-Carlton, the luxury…