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China Stock Woes Good for New York Real Estate

20140701-Manhattan-SamiraBouaou-0610-676x450Investors now have their regime's blessing to seek higher returns outside China

NEW YORK—Mainland Chinese investment in New York City real estate is unlikely to slow down despite concerns over China’s turbulent economic a...

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Investors Check Into Hotel Sector

baccarat-hotel-and-residences-new-yorkgrand-salon-8-300x225HOTEL 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...

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THE BIG APPLE OR BEIJING?

mast-1-300x116Chinese 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...

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Spanish Market Attracting More Overseas Property Buyers

SpainmainLFjpg-770x470-300x183Wanting 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...

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Beaten by Bloomberg

The-house-features-a-grand-staircase-with-paintings-by-James-Thonhill-John-Davoto-and-Daniel-Maclise1-300x225Michael Bloomberg offers £2 million above the £15 million asking price to see off thr...

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FLAT, NOT CROWDED, AND VERY HOT ON 59TH STREET

E59th-St-Hero-6.9.2015-125x300Soo 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...

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The luxury real estate boom taking over Midtown South

45_east_22nd_street_-_heroa-300x200Take 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...

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An inside look at Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row

MW-DP322_billio_20150702162956_ZH-300x168Along 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...

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Most expensive house to be publicly offered for sale in the UK to be stripped of everything including the kitchen sink

2-8a-Rutland-Gate-300x199When 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...

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Euro Crash: Continental Real Estate on the Cheap

16elements_-_zabel_property_group-300x198Just 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...

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