Real Estate

Luxury Real Estate

Britain’s super-rich cash in on low interest rates with £1m mortgages

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Number of £1m-plus mortgages granted to lenders has risen by a fifth, with private banks main funders of central London trophy properties

Meet the Turner prize shortlist, from the musician to the mind-reader

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Architecture, opera, fashion, parapsychology … this year’s contenders are taking contemporary art into exciting new territory. We sent our experts to meet the artists on the shortlist

London’s highest botanical gin garden goes on sale

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Luxury Wardian towers feature ‘sky gardens’, private gym, swimming pool and cinema – and a studio flat could be yours for just £395,000

Rome’s iconic Westin Excelsior hotel sold to Qatari luxury hotel group

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The Westin Excelsior hotel Rome, a symbol of Italian elegance in the 1960s, has been sold for €222m to a Qatari hotel group. Qatari hotel group Katara Hospitality, owner of both Sheraton Doha Resort & Convention Center and The Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Milan, bought the iconic Westin Excelsior Hotel in … Read more

Luxury Chantilly base chosen for England team hotel at Euro 2016

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• Football Association picked site for town’s quiet nature and ease of travel
• Concern over creating suitable training pitch at Stade des Bourgognes

The new Nine Elms might be a rich man’s playground, but I hope it works

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Despite the swimming pool bridge, general architectural extravagance and Donatella Versace fixtures, this part of London could be dynamic and interesting