Luxury Real Estate
Affluent consumers are more likely to purchase a lifestyle property now than they were five years ago. “If the top wishes of wealthy Americans could be expressed in a single dream home, it would be a “lifestyle property” on the waterfront with a multicar collector’s garage, which they designed themselves,” says the just-released Sotheby’s International … Read more
How to get your dream property when you are a self-employed. How to successfully make the move into the housing market when you become your own boss? How to make the most of a unique employment status? Let’s see together the easy steps of getting your dream property and transforming the process into a positive … Read more
One Hyde Park penthouse believed to be taken by overseas buyer, ‘injecting new vitality’ into capital’s super-prime market
Trends shaping the luxury real estate market globally. Christie’s International Real Estate report. With more millionaires and billionaires in the world than ever before, pent-up demand and increasing consumer confidence, luxury real estate sales surged in 2013 around the world, according to a recent report by Christie’s International Real Estate, the real estate arm of … Read more
Poveglia, a deserted 7-hectare rock believed to be the burial place of plague victims, to be leased to help pay Italy’s debts
Following similar makeover moves by hospitality rivals, Paris’ luxury hotel Lutetia built in 1910, a modern-day reflection of the Belle Epoque and Art Deco periods closed for a three-year renovation. The renovations will be overseen by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Ambassador since 1910 for the French art de vivre and symbol of prestige and … Read more