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...“They seem to build the houses, then people buy them as holiday homes — people who don’t have any association with the town.” Like many seaside towns around the UK, Whitby is a property hotspot....
...Pepi Martinez, a retiree in the working-class La Marina district, says the city has lost its charm and can feel unsafe....
...It will oblige offshore companies holding UK property to disclose their beneficial owners....
...Who IB International Real Estate 5 Paumanok Road, Bridgehampton North, Sag Harbor, New York, US, $7.9m Where Close to Noyac Hills County Park and the village of Sag Harbor in the Hamptons....
...“Most holdings are too small to be profitable,” says Philipp zu Guttenberg, president of the Federation of German Forest Owners’ Associations....
...Traditionally these feature a spacious cellar used to store valuables while the owner was away at sea....
...There is no guarantee of success, as the owners of St Mellion golf course found out....
...The mother and daughter run the association Le Marche Segrete, a conservation body founded in 1996 by the owners of some of the Marche’s most important villas and gardens. ………………………………………….....
...It is particularly noteworthy because it incorporated “green designs 100 years before the green movement,” says Bohan....
...Properties range from 400 sq ft studios priced from about $65,000 to $1m family homes. About 60 per cent of those living at Paradise Lakes are full-time residents, the rest holiday home owners....
...Although PSL incorporated as a city as early as 1961, it was little more than a village, and threadbare at that....
...Owners can play golf on 18-hole courses designed by Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus, tinker with their boats in the 411-berth marina, and avail themselves of a car and driver....
...Private-sector companies specialising in urban redevelopment were incorporated to chase up owners, buy the properties and then manage their development according to 22@BCN’s strict specifications....
...Prices have risen as the area has become easier to reach and new marinas, resorts and hotels have opened....
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