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...Data released by Hamptons on Tuesday shows that in 2023 Londoners bought the fewest homes outside the capital for nine years....
...The poet John Betjeman once called Stamford “England’s most attractive town” and it is cheaper than similarly picturesque places....
...Last year 27 per cent of buyers in the city paid more than asking price for their homes, according to Hamptons data. In London, the figure was 20 per cent....
...And in a place where frills are almost impossible to avoid, it’s refreshing....
...“It was genuinely hard to find a place for a month, places were super expensive and everything was sold out.”...
...“There aren’t many places where you can live right by the sea, in a peaceful place and have great sailing,” says Graham, who just sold one of his automotive businesses....
...“Sue and I have always worked away from home, and so part of this project is for us to be more rooted in this place,” he says....
...“I want to offer my clients a sanctuary: a place that has atmosphere,” she writes....
...The bananas being unloaded from the Canary Islands gave the place its name. By the 1980s, the area had been desolate for decades....
...The Hampton Court Palace event comes days after Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt gave businesses a £11bn-a-year tax break in the Autumn Statement by making the “full expensing” capital allowance regime permanent...
...For him, the question of timing the market takes second place to finding the right property. “We have a life to live, things to do....
...Executives at the event held at Hampton Court Palace included JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon; Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund....
...and places it in a drifting, noirish limbo: an empty space crafted by fame....
...Research by Hamptons, the estate agent, suggests Walker’s decision reflects a wider trend....
...Low-key luxe on Long Island’s North Fork The North Fork of Long Island isn’t quite the anti-Hamptons – it’s too well-to-do for that....
...His annual Super Bowl party is taking place at the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach, Florida....
...to be held in Dubai in December, at a meeting of G20 ministers in Brussels on Thursday, urging them to “be brutally honest about the gaps that need to be filled, the root causes and how we got to this place...
...The book is an exhaustive 544-page Ralph-tannica of his homes and lifestyle collections, spanning the many varied worlds he has inhabited, from the Hamptons to the West Indies and Manhattan....
...But she’s not buying a Hamptons house on playwright money. Lilah Raptopoulos Yeah, yeah. Eric Platt There’s no way, right, that Sondheim had a $10mn house in the Hamptons, and that wasn’t happening....
...“I can either spend lots of money to be in London — in a place I won’t be comfortable in with damp and mould that affects my mental health — or I take the plunge and move out of London and deal with commuting...
...In London, they accounted for 22 per cent of sales so far this year, says Hamptons, up from 17 per cent in the same period last year....
...As ever, the rich already made the move before they disappeared to Ibiza or the Hamptons for the summer....
...It was also an escape to a forgotten American south of Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor, a place dripping with Spanish moss, genteel manners and darkness....
...She won a gold medal at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show in 2016. I marvel at the agglutinated English of their book’s first two parts....
...But in place of crisp tennis whites, many pickleball players have embraced a wackier aesthetic that can incorporate animal print, high-vis fluoro hues and novelty graphics....
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