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Investors Check Into Hotel Sector
HOTEL SALES WORLD-WIDE ARE ON A SCORCHING PACE AFTER TOTALING $42 BILLION IN THE FIRST HALF
Hotel sales world-wide are on a scorching pace for 2015 after totaling $42 billion in the first half, boost...THE BIG APPLE OR BEIJING?
Chinese investment in NYC real estate has skyrocketed over the past year
All of Manhattan is becoming Chinatown. Chinese investors and developers are flooding the local real estate market at never-before-seen levels, buying some of New York City’s most iconic buildings at prices that...Spanish Market Attracting More Overseas Property Buyers
Wanting to live in Spain is not only about beaches and the tropical sun, it is also about the right investment attitude.
An article about the real estate market in Spain’s central city, Madrid, was recently featured in aplaceinthesun.com that gives readers...
Beaten by Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg offers £2 million above the £15 million asking price to see off thr...
FLAT, NOT CROWDED, AND VERY HOT ON 59TH STREET
Soo Chan’s latest synthesizes design ideas on the edge of Midtown
The little stretch of Manhattan along 59th Street from Park to Lexington is covered in scaffolding from three distinct projects.
Two of these involve the recladding or restoring existing bu...
The luxury real estate boom taking over Midtown South
Take a walk down Park Avenue South, then up Lexington Avenue between 18th and 28th streets — a small crossroads of the NoMad, Flatiron and Gramercy neighborhoods — and it’s immediately evident that this commercial pocket is now taking on a new res...
An inside look at Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row
Along Manhattan’s 57th Street, stretching from Columbus Circle on the west side to Park Avenue on the east, you’ll soon find more than a half-dozen glittering and ultra-exclusive condominium towers that will offer unparalleled views of Centr...
Most expensive house to be publicly offered for sale in the UK to be stripped of everything including the kitchen sink
When we last featured 2 – 8a Rutland Gate opposite Hyde Park in Knightsbridge in 2013, it was not officially on the market and priced at the staggering sum of £300 million. It is now for sale again at an undisclosed price and will be stripped of its entire contents aft...
Euro Crash: Continental Real Estate on the Cheap
Just a few months ago, purchasing a second home in Europe seemed like an impossibility — let alone a terrible investment.
But with the rebound in the American economy and the euro coming close to parity with the dollar — down 12 percent i...