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...Her home among a small cluster of houses in Missouri Heights, 28 miles north-east of Aspen, comes with eight acres of land and views over Mount Sopris....
...For every 1 per cent increase in the soil’s carbon, an acre of land can hold an extra 25,000 gallons of water, helping productivity and plant health, notes Hovsepian, adding: “Connecting those pieces, that...
...As frustration swells among residents about the state of their home or the charges they pay, a number have escalated their concerns beyond the Peabody complaints system to join residents’ associations, lobby...
...In the two years to February, the number of property sales in the county for above £1mn more than doubled, according to data from estate agents Savills based on Land Registry figures....
...It was during this spell that Heseltine, as environment secretary, established his reputation as a bold champion of the active state — or “levelling up”, as the current Tory government would call it....
...“It falls between the three or four-bedroom more modern house for £700,000-£800,000 that is not big enough for some, and the four to five-bedroom period house on an acre or two for £1.5mn-£2mn,” Rix says...
...In another, the World Wide Fund for Nature joined it in a $6mn initiative two years ago to restore 1mn acres of grazing land in the Great Plains....
...In the mid-century, two civic-minded families of Hampstead Unitarians, the Fields and the Sharpes, promoted the heath in more practical ways. They were less Nimby-ish than the copyholders....
...“Close to the best schooling [around Truro], this area is less about second homes than the more fashionable north coast’s Rock and Padstow....
...“Why do these people take on more risk and are willing to take less money?” asks Litan....
...Madonna’s purchase of Ashcombe House in Wiltshire in 2001, a Georgian house set in more than 1,000 acres, was a throwback to the days of pop grandeur....
...That is because it is situated in St George’s Hill, a long-established private estate of luxury homes in Weybridge, Surrey, the affluent county south-west of London....
...A proposal to rezone 87 acres of private land on Cumberland Island was approved in December 2016 by county officials....
...£500,000 A terraced cottage with a small garden in the centre of town £1.5m A Grade II-listed, semi-detached house with seven bedrooms £3.5m A seven-bedroom country house with nine acres of land More...
...In 2009, HTB took over St Peter’s. It has now built a congregation of almost 1,000. The message is relentlessly upbeat. “There is no such thing as hopelessness,” says the preacher....
...£250,000 A two-acre island on Lake Victoria in Uganda £5m A small island in the Bahamas without water or power £20m An island of 80 to 100 acres in Spain’s Balearic Islands More listings at ftpropertylistings.com...
...Near the town of Truckee, California, is Martis Camp, a private community covering more than 2,100 acres of land. The camp contains 671 plots averaging 1.5 acres in size....
...At the southern end of the hills, an eight-bedroom Grade II-listed house with a pool and three acres of land in Ledbury is on the market for £1.1m with Grant & Co....
...Buying guide ● 63 per cent of buyers in Pitkin County in May 2015 were local or from adjacent counties, 33 per cent from other US states and just 3 per cent were international ● The market grew 16 per...
...For a bit more space, buyers try Stoke d’Abernon where Knight Frank is selling a five-bedroom, 16th-century farmhouse in 5.2 acres for £1.695m....
...Here the Ohio State University historian investigates what the common people thought of Charles I before the king’s tumultuous reign ended with his beheading in 1649....
...Dividend cover of two times or more; ● Net debt of less than 2.5 times cash profits; ● A return on equity of 15 per cent or more; ● A dividend yield of 2 per cent or more; ● Forecast earnings growth...
...Despite its high-earners, the St Katharine’s and Wapping ward had a child poverty rate of 34 per centin 2010, 12 per cent higher than the UK average....
...And yet Emily St John Mandel’s fourth novel is different partly because she skips over the apocalypse itself — all the action takes place just before or 20 years afterwards — and because it is less about...
...It’s not hard (or expensive) to go to the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California, I tell friends — I’ve been back more than 60 times in the past 22 years....
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