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...“To me,” says Sachs, “the history of literature is about who controls real estate — who gets the house and who doesn’t. Shakespeare is all about that, Henry James is all about that, Trollope . . ....
...She also answers a special Q&A of our own to coincide with the publication of a book next month where she responds to questions from many of today’s finest female artists, from Chantal Joffe to Marlene Dumas...
...“At some point I just wanted to throw my phone against the wall,” said Chantal Mille Arida of B in Beirut....
...Beijing sees that workers trying to plan for old age have few investment options; many hoard cash or funnel money into real estate. Fund houses, meanwhile, see a giant opportunity....
...Chantal Coady opened the first shop on the King’s Road in London in 1983....
...yield of about 8 per cent, estate agents say....
...A three-bedroom detached house with views of the sea is on sale for £875,000, through local estate agent Miles and Barr. For those looking for true isolation, Portree delivers....
...Dominic Gregory, editorial director of the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, said: “Roald knew the business of exploitation . . . He didn’t turn his nose up at it, if it could be done well....
...“There was a lot of enthusiasm and excitement [from banks],” says Chantal Kordula, partner at law firm Cleary Gottlieb in New York, who led the team that represented the Mexican government in the deal....
...One of the survivors, Chantal Frohnhoefer, owner of a coffee machine shop, Macchina Caffè, said that in the 1990s rents per sq m had been €15 but were now €80-€100....
...Chantal Coady, founder of Rococo Chocolates, was so inspired by the look following a visit to Stockholm, that it has become her signature style....
...John Swanston, a friend of Mr Bramah and a director of the Glenburn Tea Estate in Darjeeling, said the founder would be very sad if the “treasure trove” he had collected were to be split up....
...By reputation, the Saint Tropez peninsula must be one of the best known pieces of real estate in the western world. By road, it must be one of the hardest to get to....
...high end of the high end – single-estate chocolate....
...“It was the aristocracy who built their villas facing the beach,” explains Chantal Ollivier, director of tourism....
...After Desi eventually returned home to the Netherlands, she managed, in 1952, to retrieve a small portion of the paintings, but she always felt largely cheated of her estate....
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