Hints and tips:
...“There weren’t many rates below 5 per cent last week, and there are a few more now,” said Aaron Strutt, director at broker Trinity Financial....
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...On an interest-only deal, that would fall to £917 a month, according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...While the sell-off has affected other parts of the market, Flamingo’s portfolio “hasn’t moved that much in terms of value”, said Aaron Wright, a member who helped form the DAO....
...Perhaps the defining image of alfresco dining is Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...There can’t be that much further to go before people start hiring butlers. “I’m just off to the high street. Does Madam want anything from L’Occitane?”...
...“[A]lmost every legacy international news outlet said that because of our “#Bitcoin bet”, El Salvador was going to default on its debt by January 2023,” he lamented, claiming there were “[l]iterally, hundreds...
...Aaron Strutt, a mortgage broker at Trinity Financial, said: “There are fewer 95 per cent loan-to-value mortgages and they’re more expensive....
...With music director Louis Langrée conducting, the MMFO warmed up with Joseph Bologne’s stylish overture to L’amant anonyme. Feelings were good all around, the crowd applauded each movement....
...“The base rate changes are coming thick and fast,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C....
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...It’s stridently traditional for a start: a world in which a sports car might be frowned upon, where the butler’s pantry is still presided over by a butler, jewellery thefts go unreported to avoid scandal...
...Aaron Chandrasakaran, Citigroup’s head of Hong Kong investment banking, is leaving to join Jefferies Financial Group, per Bloomberg....
...Aaron Strutt, product director at broker Trinity Financial, said one client recently decided to pay £12,000 in exit fees on two five-year mortgages in order to lock in a low rate over 10 years....
...Left wingers Rebecca Long Bailey, Dawn Butler and Zarah Sultana will be worth watching, as wellas respected MPs Rosie Cooper and Barbara Keely....
...Reassuringly expensive-looking, with taut, smooth brown flesh, and draped lazily in a pool of oil, like five St Tropez socialites in a Slim Aarons photograph....
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...Our butler, Rudolfo, unpacked our crumpled clothes then slid our luggage under the super-king-size bed....
...Or, until recently, Knightsbridge, where a tangle of steel L-beams poked out from behind a funereal black hoarding wrapped around an entire city block beside Harvey Nichols....
...Ed was sceptical: but mid-conversation a butler announced the arrival of Black. “Let Leon wait,” Epstein said....
...I love its green-painted cane bentwood table and chairs set, and Palm Springs metal chair, which, with a good cushion, would transport one immediately to a Slim Aarons stage set....
...“Anything below 1 per cent is really just clinging on now,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is L’Eau d’Ambre Extrême by L’Artisan Parfumeur....
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