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...At the heart of the quarter was a pond, overlooked by a tall Wicker Man-type abstraction, which chimed quite nicely with the hollow funnel of the Dane’s Yard development in Mill Meads....
...But people do not live like Beaton much any more. We tend not to have staff — or at least most people don’t — and we like to eat and entertain in the same space....
...The words “trailer park” aren’t used in America any more — at least not in polite company....
...At Acorn Saddlery, just down the road, founder Frank Edwards and his son James tell the same story....
...“On any major project, public or private, there is an ecosystem of contractors and subcontractors based on their skills and expertise. It is always a complex exercise....
...over time: But people who live in their own homes don’t actually pay — or get paid — any rent....
...Any public discomfort at overseas investment is not shared by the council leadership. Bernstein insists that “Manchester has always been an open, international city”....
...For a more animated, heterogeneous atmosphere, the answer may lie in the historic areas around the Tretyakov Gallery or Patriarshiye Ponds – the latter a high-end area during Soviet times, as now....
...to deliver any profits from its sale to the investor....
...Another reason for the Ormeau’s popularity is overspill from the high-end Malone and Lisburn Roads with their BT9 postcodes, equivalent to upscale Dublin 4 or well-heeled London NW3....
...By the early 14th century, the abbots and monks of England owned at least 25 per cent of the land and, to the chagrin of their tenant farmers, grew wealthy from the tithes (one-tenth shares of the harvest...
...But property investment is still at the opposite end of the spectrum from the hot money that keeps many of the occupants rich....
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