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...At the Spring Place private members club in Manhattan, Blackstone said the unfolding financial crisis could bolster Breit’s earnings because it would constrain bank financing for new real estate construction...
...They were settling the show for spring 2020. The tall, broad window was dark with rain....
...I walked down the main street and fantasised about owning one of the many broad mansions, some in need of loving restoration, but still cheaper than a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan....
...The company is hoping to woo investors with its aggressive expansion as it presses forward with plans to open houses in Nashville, Portland, Palm Springs and more....
...In the years after the financial crisis of 2008, developers built lavish new apartments aimed at wealthy international buyers....
...Rob Bailey, founder of a data automation company, froze his Manhattan gym membership last week after canvassing friends and reading scores of medical articles about whether it was safe to keep going....
...“The archaeological finds in moats tend to be of higher quality beneath the windows of the smarter apartments.”...
...Yet as I ambled around the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload...
...In the stormy spring of 2008, the UK’s worsening property downturn was yet to hit Sloane Street in central London....
...While Knight Frank’s Bailey welcomes new-build apartments in central London with concierge and surrounding infrastructure, he recognises that contemporary projects do not attract everyone....
...One Eastern European expert and long time resident we spoke to was acting on his own advice to clients, and has put his Budapest apartment on the market....
...Bears sleeping,” I was told, “Come back in spring.” See zakopane.eu for details....
...In 2010, Italian artist Lithian Ricci, 55, redesigned her three-storey apartment in central Milan to better display her art collection....
...Tianjin’s recent growth is a result of a classic control approach and has left much unused apartments and infrastructure....
...Dalston Square, a £160m development of nearly 600 homes on two sites, is due for completion in spring 2013 and is attracting international buyers....
...“People who talk about Belgravia being stuffy and out of date are out of date themselves,” argues Stuart Bailey of Knight Frank....
...Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight Frank, says: “The main casualties of the recent economic turmoil have been the emerging locations – those tipped as the ‘next big thing’ in the late 2000s...
...The work under way in Washington springs out of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill enacted this summer....
...this spring....
...His new book, ‘Lecturing Birds on Flying’, will be released in spring 2009...
...The building, which is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in 2008, comprises 16 luxury apartments from 1,600 sq ft to 3,500 sq ft and including four, two-storey, full-floor penthouses....
...He grew up in middle-class Spring Valley, New York, the son of a steel salesman who served in the Pacific in the second world war....
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