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Hudson Yards Is New York City’s Priciest Neighborhood

May 3, 2023

Hudson Yards is officially New York City’s most expensive neighborhood, according to a report this week from PropertyShark. Residences in the sleek new area of skyscrapers—located on the far West Side of the Manhattan, north of Chelsea—had a median sale price of $5.729 million in the first quarter, the data showed. Prices have increased 6%, or $324,000, compared to the same time last year, while sales have dropped 67%.  “In fact, Hudson Yar...

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Here’s how the price of luxury housing is in the main residential markets in Spain

April 26, 2023

The average price of properties for sale in Spain closed in 2022 at €1,921/m2, with a year-on-year increase of 5%, according to the year-end report by idealista, the real estate marketplace in southern Europe. In the same period, the price of luxury homes, i.e. those on the market for over €1 m, ended the year with an average price of €7,135/m2 for luxury apartments and €4,436/m2 for single-family homes with high purchasing power. With data ...

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One of the world’s biggest cruise ships is now anchored in Brooklyn

April 26, 2023

A floating city has made its way to Red Hook—and it’s taller than many Brooklyn apartment buildings.  The MSC Meraviglia, a new ship by MSC Cruises, docked at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal over the weekend and will use the port as its home base for itineraries between The Bahamas, Florida, Canada, New England and Bermuda.   The ship itself is like an extra neighborhood: Accommodating over 5,700 guests (plus staff), the cru...

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Welcome to Baynanza, the massive effort to clean up Miami’s shoreline

April 26, 2023

Take a stroll through the lush grounds behind the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens and you’ll find yourself at a one-of-a-kind staircase. The steps are made of hardened coral called coquina, and they lead down into the murky depths of a mangrove forest. There are a couple of moorings at the bottom that look like barber poles, where you can imagine Venetian gondolas pulling up. While the stairs make a sweet backdrop for engagement photos, they’re also...

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15 houses with sea views for more than a million euros in the province of A Coruña

April 19, 2023

Fortress in Ameixeira, Cee ( 4,700,000 euros )   This exclusive property was built in the 18th century and restored in the past 1980s and has vaulted stone ceilings, two dining rooms joined by a stone arch and five bedrooms with their own bathroom, two toilets, kitchen and pantry. It also has a patio for weapons, powder kegs and battlements, with a living room with a terrace-gazebo. The farm, with more than 33,000 square ...

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The historic Strawberry Train will circulate again next weekend

April 19, 2023

The historic Strawberry Train is put back into circulation for the spring and fall season. It will do so on weekends from Saturday, April 22, with trips that will last until November 12. The circulations will have Aranjuez as their destination: city declared a Cultural Landscape a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001. The train, opened in 1984, runs through spring and autumn weekends the route of the first railway that the Community of Madrid had:...

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Miami officials, developer reach compromise to save part of key prehistoric Brickell site

April 5, 2023

Miami’s historic preservation board late Tuesday set the wheels in motion towards designation of a big piece of a major prehistoric archaeological site in Brickell as a protected landmark, but in a compromise with the property owners, the Related Group, held back on action on a portion where the prominent developer plans to build a pair of skyscrapers. The two 8-0 votes by the preservation board came after a confusing and sometimes heated five-hour ...

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This major Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at MoMA showcases 120 works by the renowned artist

April 5, 2023

Back in 1915, Georgia O'Keeffe wrote a letter to a friend with this line: "Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it on to a sheet of charcoal paper?"  Now, more than a century later, the renowned American artist isn't just getting a sheet of paper or a wall to say what she wanted to; she's getting an entire gallery at Manhattan'...

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Dolce & Gabbana enters the luxury real estate market and chooses Marbella as the gateway

April 5, 2023

Dolce & Gabbana, a renowned Italian firm in the luxury fashion market, will make the leap to the most exclusive real estate sector. The company has announced on Monday that it will erect three large complexes in different parts of the world, and one of them will be located in Marbella. In the Andalusian city, Dolce & Gabbana will build 60 apartments through an alliance with Sierra Blanca Estates, a company specialized in this segment of real e...

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Americans focus on Spain: home purchases break record

April 5, 2023

“ Americans Are Buying Homes in Spain More Than Ever Before ”. This is how The Wall Street Journal titled a article on the barrage of operations real estate that is starring US citizens in Spain. A barrage that, as the newspaper well commented, is breaking all records. According to the General Council of Notaries, During the first half of 2022 alone, Americans bought 1,162 homes in Spain, 75.5% more that in the first half of 2021, signing not...

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