Hints and tips:
...One tentacle stretched 2,500 miles northward to the black sand beaches of Hawaii. Another probed some 2,700 miles eastward to the treeless shores of Easter Island....
...As the global travel and tourism sector grinds to a halt following travel bans and flight cancellations, many owners of short-term or holiday rental homes are struggling to plug the hole in their monthly...
...Yet in a sign of the industry’s shifting sands, a host of Silicon Valley names have been ruling the roost during the Cannes Lions festival....
...Keys are passed down through families or sold for the price of a condominium in Florida, often $200,000 to $300,000....
...Owners of houses in these areas are also not allowed to convert them from rental properties into condominiums. The policy is a nightmare for developers....
...Cella, owner and broker of Coldwell Banker Island Properties....
...“Look at all the people lying on the ground,” the 39-year-old says, pointing to groups of bronzed bodies splayed out on the sand for as far as the eye can see....
...The National Basketball Association commissioner, Adam Silver, said this week that he would do “everything in my power” to force Donald Sterling, the current owner, to sell....
...and erudite delight that traces an erratic flight path of ideas and associations....
...US Class I railways – the biggest operators – moved 88,026 carloads of crude oil in the first six months of 2012, against 65,751 in the whole of 2011, according to the Association of American Railroads....
...Out of the ashes… Sarah Sands is editor of the London Evening Standard...
...Claire Enders, a media analyst, said that Tuesday would have been “one of the saddest days of James Murdoch’s life” because of his long association with the company....
...“We’ve gone full circle,” says Sam Barone, president of the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA), which previously issued the POCs....
...Some of these had supported Viacom in the past but many were new to the case, including the Motion Picture Association of America, CBS and the National Football League....
...The one-bedroom condominium she bought for $196,000 in October 2005 is now worth just $60,000 and she has decided to default, “after two years of agonising”....
...Even aerial views of the Bahamas’ pearly pink sands shaped around sky-blue waters beg the question: why would anyone leave?...
...Financials were the sharpest fallers after the British Bankers’ Association said the cost of borrowing in dollars overnight had more than doubled....
...“The currently market is saturated,” says Wetzel, past president of the Builders Association and broker-owner of Re/Max Midway....
...Instead, a smattering of two- to three-unit condominiums and a number of bigger loft developments make up the bulk of the area’s available housing....
...Mr Coppel, who is also president of the Mexican Association of Desarrolladores Turisticos, is now planning to build 1,000 full-ownership homes next door to Sunset Beach, as well as a hotel and 25 larger...
...And “with more and larger hotels, there are fewer and fewer stretches of white sand beach available [so] acreage . . . is becoming more expensive,” Langford adds....
...And the owners of a cluster of houseboats further down the channel have been promised they can stay....
International Edition