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...Several hundred homes have already been built; Catalyst has a two-bedroom apartment in the new development on sale for £855,000....
...“Whereas city boys and investors used to look at Chelsea or Pimlico for a pad, they are now finding they can get a 30-40 per cent discount just by crossing the Thames.”...
...It is building hotels, malls and service apartments in, among other places, Tanzania and Uganda....
...Yet Tyco – though frequently cited alongside other scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia Communications and Global Crossing – was an anomaly....
...So he boarded a rickety boat on a rough 90-mile crossing to Miami that took six days....
...Some have homes in Monaco for tax purposes but prefer to escape the traffic and the crowds by living in Liguria; others are crossing the border from France to avoid the new taxation measures....
...The expensively vulgar apartment blocks perched beside the Thames are cleaned and serviced by workers marooned by the grim poverty of the minimum wage....
...These include laying a “median strip”, a line of paving, down the centre of Victoria Street to create a safe harbour for people crossing it....
...Prices around Lake Como vary between €2,000 to €15,000 per sq m, with prices becoming steeper the closer you are to the lakeshore....
...New issuance has dried up as a national recession, rising unemployment and a consumer pullback have sent the value of retail stores, office buildings, hotels and apartment buildings sharply lower....
...The Intercontinental, near the business district, also has serviced apartments for longer term rental....
...Crossing into what is unkindly nicknamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Boredom from almost anywhere else in the Middle East induces a palpable lowering of tension....
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