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...Owned by the Espirito Santo family, it had escaped development until tranches of land started being sold off from 2014....
...Next come works that most outside Australia will recognise as Aboriginal art: “dot paintings” by Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-96), a bark work by John Mawurndjul (b 1952), and an ochre abstraction by Dale...
...The population changed after a devastating 1926 hurricane, the collapse of a land-speculation boom and the 1929 stock market crash (triggered, some say, by Florida land speculators)....
...The one-acre plot in the Shoreditch district, owned by the London Stock Exchange, has attracted interest from the Canary Wharf Group, US investor Tishman Speyer and developer Helical; bids have spiralled...
...Tower Hamlets, Southwark and Newham were stripped of their planning powers in the 5,100 acres placed under the control of the London Dockland Development Corporation (LDDC)....
...It was sold in 2017 for £1.15bn in the City’s biggest property deal to CC Land, the Hong Kong-listed investment vehicle owned by Chinese property developer Cheung Chung-Kiu....
...Those wedded to the Riviera’s glamorous past and with plenty of money to spend may prefer a five-bedroom villa on 1.24 acres once owned by Sean Connery in Cap de Nice, for sale with Knight Frank for €30m...
...Yorkshire Dales National Park is privately owned What you can buy for...
...What A six-bedroom detached house surrounded by woodland and pasture. Why The property comes with around 50 acres of land....
...The freeholds to many are owned by holding companies so transactions take the form of share sales, says de Mallet Morgan....
...The property has more than 1.5 acres of land and an outdoor pool, while the house has 1,600 sq metres of living space....
...Street from developer Native Land....
...There were 144 transactions above £1m in the first three quarters of 2017 — 22 per cent fewer than in the same period in 2014, according to Land Registry data compiled by Hamptons International....
...The estate covers more than 5,000 acres south of the city of Manchester in north-west England....
...The property comes with 203 acres of land, three further cottages, an outdoor pool and a tennis court....
...It has six bedrooms, plus a two-bedroom self-contained flat and 26.5 acres of grounds....
...Why Dramatically perched on a clifftop overlooking the rugged coastline and surrounded by 165 acres of land, the castle is a refuge from the buzz of popular Plettenberg Bay....
...More than 17,000 acres of disused industrial land in Moscow is due for development in the coming two decades, including the sprawling Zil automobile plant on the Moskva river embankment that once produced...
...At the uppermost end of the market — where a detached villa backing on to Holland Park can sell for £45m — prices fell 5.9 per cent in 2016, according to Land Registry data....
...The Waste Land’” – while his self-assurance is endearing: “Everyone thinks my main artist was Hockney but the really great artists [I represented] were Caro and [Frank] Stella....
...What A six-bedroom house with 75 acres of land. The property has an outdoor pool, tennis court, helicopter pad and hangar....
...What A three-bedroom villa with 400 sq metres of living space set within almost 2.5 acres of land. There is also a three-bedroom guesthouse, an outdoor pool and several resident peacocks....
...One body was washed 18 miles downstream. 1928 The last time central London was hit by major flooding. The Houses of Parliament, Tate Gallery and Tower of London were all swamped....
...Yet a swath of property and land — 93 acres on and around Sloane Street and Sloane Square — is still owned by Sir Hans Sloane’s descendants, including the Cadogan Hotel where in 1895 Oscar Wilde was arrested...
...Previously owned by an American who bought it from tractor pioneer Harry Ferguson in 1970, the estate boasts a 10-bedroom house with 13 guest cottages on 774 acres of land in prime Cotswolds territory....
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