Tag: San Francisco
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All aboard San Francisco’s hipster bus for leather seats, Wi-Fi and iced coffee
New private bus service Leap boasts spacious seating, a general air of calm cleanliness and a steward serving coffee, cold-pressed juices and granola bars. With tickets costing almost three times as much as the regular bus, is it a welcome new addition to the marketplace or a step towards two-tier transit?
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Silicon Valley: an army of geeks and ‘coders’ shaping our future
My birthplace has been changed forever by the app and network generation
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Luxury real estate sales surged around the world.
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…
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London’s Artesian voted the World’s Number 1 Bar for second year in a row
This year the multi award winning Artesian bar in London has successfully defended its crown to be voted the World’s Number 1 Bar and take the NikkaBest Bar in the UK award for the second time. Returning for the fifth year, The World’s 50 Best Bars is the most influential and respected global survey of its…
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Supperclub opens in Dubai
Supperclub Dubai opened at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray. Supperclub is a restaurant, cocktailbar, club, gallery and experimental free state all rolled into one whether it’s in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London or Dubai. From July, the globally acclaimed supperclub brand from the creative capital Amsterdam has officially opened its doors to a new address…
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Housing market: The leading measure of U.S. home prices – strong gains in the 1st quarter of 2013
U.S. home prices see strong gains in the first quarter of 2013, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. The leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three composites posted double-digit annual increases. The 10 -City and 20-City Composites increased by 10.3% and 10.9% in the year to March with the national composite…