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...Just hours after he was ordered by a New York judge to pay $454mn for fraudulently inflating the value of his properties, Donald Trump held a fundraising event at his ritzy Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach...
...(The latest to be rumoured to have signed up: Soho House, with a club, hotel and its own branded residences.)...
...Under the eye of luxury hotel veteran Pierre-Yves Rochon, who designed the interiors of The Savoy in London as well as the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, the magpie-luxe approach somehow works....
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...If you want to try scuba diving, the hotel can arrange it on site. Photograph: 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc...
...One Friday in May last year, Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T, took a weekend break in Pebble Beach, a Californian resort popular with wealthy golfers....
...Kyaukphyu links the Middle Kingdom to seaways towards south Asia, Africa, the Gulf and beyond....
...Another circular space, open to the air and overlooking the beach, provides a panoramic view and a deep, dreamy silence more relaxing than any wind chime-lulled massage at a luxury hotel....
...But it’s not so much the technology,” says L Bruce Jones, president of US Submarines Inc, the designer behind the Poseidon Resort. “We also had a coup in Fiji and a financial crisis....
...In Italy, Qatar has bought couture house Valentino and the owner of a luxury resort business in Sardinia. In France, it has picked up a host of assets – including the Paris Saint-Germain football team....
...Frits van Paasschen, chief executive of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, will need his sunglasses for his next relocation....
...Being on the beach helps. Hilton concedes that hotels located deeper in the city are still facing tougher times than before....
...Overall, house prices in greater Miami are down 51 per cent from their December 2006 peak, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index....
...The great American dream is no longer a house in the suburbs. It is a secure job, but almost any job will do....
...The private beach concessions that once belonged to the villas have become bagni, beach clubs that offer umbrellas, cabañas, restaurants and even swimming pools; many villas are now hotels or their lots...
...Cons ● Air of neglect; grand old public buildings left derelict; few hotels or restaurants....
...The Portomaso development also has the five-star Hilton Malta hotel, beach club, casino, shops and restaurants on site....
...RBS took control of Grosvenor House in 2003 when Le Meridien, the hotel operator, fell into administration....
...Sahara India Pariwar, the Indian conglomerate run by billionaire industrialist Subrata Roy, has been tipped as a leading bidder to buy the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane from Royal Bank of Scotland for...
...“If all the houses are burning around your house, what will you do?” he says. “Won’t you leave, too?” The proper reaction to the crisis has also plagued the minds of shipowners....
...Low pastel-coloured houses flank a tidy, palm-lined high street, with little sign of life on a Saturday afternoon besides the occasional stray cat....
...If you total up auction sales in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan over the past year, the figure outstrips the US for the first time – €130m v €123m....
...On the South Promenade, adjacent to the bridge, the new Floral Hall complex houses a modern exhibition centre, the Southport Theatre and a hotel. The regeneration is set to continue apace....
...Broad stagnation with blips of activity is the also the story in Marbella, the south coast resort where wealthy Madrileños have historically kept beach houses....
...Last April Dubai-based Kingdom Hotel Investments (KHI) announced it was opening up a group of 23 Raffles-branded residences and estates on Praslin alongside a soon-to-be-constructed Raffles Resort and, in...
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