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...While Sawiris’ bet appears to be paying off, he insisted he was not in Aston Villa for the money....
...Beijing, Chinese investors bought or took stakes in several clubs, including top Italian sides AC Milan and Inter Milan, Atlético Madrid in Spain, and a number of English teams such as Manchester City, Aston Villa...
...A Puglia villa with pulling power Although villa specialist The Thinking Traveller now represents properties as far afield as Corsica and Patmos, it’s been operating in Puglia for 14 years, and knows the...
...Infrastructure shares jump 30% in debut (FT) Krispy Kreme puts Insomnia Cookies brand up for sale as it doubles down on doughnuts (CNBC) Billionaire hedge fund founder Izzy Englander bought Paul Allen’s French villa...
...The renovation plans include adding “7-star” hotel villas, a new clubhouse, and revamping the golf course to attract the sport’s elite....
...Dora Caltabiano is the quintessential Sicilian grandmother....
...Mikel Arteta has taken Arsenal to the top of the Premier League table but Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard were both sacked earlier this season from Aston Villa and Everton, respectively, after a run of...
...But the 205-year-old villa, known as The Holme, fell into the hands of receivers after a loan of about £150mn, secured against the property as well as other assets — including a New York home and a plane...
...He ended our conversation by jovially noting that I looked like Dora the Explorer, the seven-year-old cartoon character with a love for adventure. Flattering, maybe, but also upsetting....
...The Bahamas team’s war room moved to a nearby villa, where Constance Wang lived....
...King, a former director at top-flight club Aston Villa, is seeking a radical new settlement within a sport buffeted by financial crises over recent years....
.... ★★★★☆ If the search is on for neglected women composers, look no further than Dora Pejacevic....
...In 2017, after Britain decided to move the embassy to a high-rise, Central joined Hongkong Land in buying the rest of the compound, which included an elegant villa and a statue of Queen Victoria, for £420m...
...A Villa Dora Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio will do it. We’ll have pineapple slices to finish. And so to my fifth and final guest. It’s Rosalind from Shakespeare’s As You Like It....
...Levy, a sales and marketing manager for the villa-rental company The Thinking Traveller, bumps into other French-born locals at the farmers’ market that occupies the playground of Salusbury Primary School...
...The list includes Spain’s Atlético Madrid, Aston Villa in the UK and Slavia Prague in the Czech Republic. Suning’s debt problems have also struck much closer to home....
...Gupta also owns a £19.5m property in Sydney, a £3m estate in Wales, a villa on Dubai’s man-made Palm Jumeirah and the Jahama Highland Estates in Scotland....
...Islands in the Mediterranean are in demand too, and especially for holidays staying in private villas....
...One luxury example is a resort in remote Kagoshima, at the southern tip of Kyushu island, which flies in customers via chartered plane for ¥1m a night to stay in three villas set in 60 hectares....
...For a longer day out, you can visit Villa Oplontis, one of the most beautiful of the ancient Roman villas, where the frescoes are remarkable....
...The willingness to invest was evident across the league: champions Manchester City and newly promoted Aston Villa both spent more than £100m....
...Wolverhampton has been the best performing of several high-profile English teams which were acquired by Chinese investors in recent years, including Southampton, Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion....
...It was a treat to be able to go on a road trip with friends, sharing responsibilities for booking venues, planning routes and basking in a fine villa on the Croatian coast....
...Mr Kerimov was detained in France in November 2017 as part of a long-running investigation into the acquisition of several villas, including one estimated to be worth more than €150m, by shell companies...
...Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris, along with US businessman Wes Edens, last year acquired a majority stake in Aston Villa, a Birmingham club that has since gained promotion to the Premier League....
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