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...Smart reads A fatal mistake The Wall Street Journal investigates what happened on a remote Texas ranch in a billionaire shipping scion’s final hours....
...Who The Whistler Real Estate Co Ltd/Luxury Portfolio International House, West Vancouver, C$19.9mn Where On an ocean bluff in West Vancouver....
...MCG plans to open houses in Nashville, Portland, and a second in Hollywood by 2024 as well as a ranch in California, a beach house in Palm Springs and a branch of The Ned in New York....
...Australia has approved the sale of S Kidman & Co to a consortium led by mining tycoon Gina Rinehart and backed by Chinese investors, ending more than a year of wrangling over whether to allow foreign ownership...
...Ms Rinehart also committed to acquiring 100 per cent of S Kidman & Co herself if the bid ran into trouble with regulators over the level of Chinese ownership in the consortium....
...Cred emerged last year as a potential bidder for the S Kidman & Co ranch in Australia, the largest private property on earth....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.za, tel: +27 82 777 6000 Photographs: FToNIK Ltd; Robert Green...
...We’re not betting the ranch.” Other investors are less keen to jump on board....
...“He was very passionate,” Pete Nordstrom, co-president, says, diplomatically. What Green actually said, according to insiders, is: “I’ll put the f***ing denim in. I’ll back it.”...
...The North Ranch Country Club is like many golf clubs dotted around southern California....
...Mr London is co-operating with authorities. To neighbours and business associates the news was shocking....
...“Microsoft knows that this is going to be a slow burn,” says Mr Wood, “whereas the phones – and in particular Nokia, which has bet the ranch on Windows – need to hit the ground running....
...Kamogi Ranch (www.kamogi.com) sleeps up to 10 and costs £260 per person per night, full board. Bookings are handled by Original Travel (www.originaltravel.co.uk)....
...A viable option for someone looking for longer term capital growth but without “betting the ranch.”...
...“We’re going to invest in it, but it’s not the environment we want to bet the ranch on,” he said. Mr Roth is also looking to expand IPG’s new media and social media expertise....
...Solar panel manufacturer First Solar fell 8.4 per cent to $57.90 as analysts weighed the company’s sales of the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch I and 550MW Desert Sunlight plants, immediately after securing...
...In these areas, £5m would buy a classic château-style six-bedroom home in Bordeaux, a ranch-style house in California or a farmhouse in Italy....
...In your new plan you are apparently thinking of increasing synergies and co-operation between the two sides....
...For a few months, potential co-investors showed strong appetite but this vanished as markets shook in late 2007....
...Very fine and velvety. 14% £31.95 Slurp.co.uk Snowden Vineyards, The Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 Napa Valley Made by Diana, daughter-in-law at Domaine Dujac in Burgundy....
...Born in Japan in 1941, where his father was a labourer on a ranch, Mr Lee grew up in poverty in the South Korean port of Pohang and helped supplement the family income by selling fruit and matches from a...
...On top of that Rio agreed the sale of the Jacobs Ranch coalmine in the US to Arch Coal for $761m in March....
...It is a ranch that is made from local wood. It’s nice to sit on locally made, wood rocking chairs and hammocks right by the pool....
...We are introduced to the “tuna barons” of Port Lincoln, Australia, who ranch tuna, in the process inventing “tuna tossing” and building home aquariums so large their daughters swim in them....
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