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...According to property consultants JLL, Manchester’s growing population has boosted demand for new homes, and led to some of the biggest rises in house prices in the UK....
...A crocodile, pike and an escaped python were suspected but the fowl-snatcher has never been identified....
...High studio rents in New York and LA are driving recording studios and artists back to the city, says Kelton....
...“We are in advance negotiations with a major US studio,” says Lansdorp....
...Governments kept records only of occasions, such as birth, marriage, property ownership, and death....
...Rusty O’Kelley moved to a 3,000 sq ft new-build penthouse on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in 2008 after years living downtown in Chelsea....
...It was inspired by de Waal’s inheritance six years ago of 264 netsuke, those intricate knots of skill and expression carved by Japanese craftsmen since the 17th century....
...Estate agencies Agenzia Domus, tel: +39 0184-262 368, www.agenzia-domus.it Casamare Real Estate, tel: +39 0184-264 764, www.casamare.net...
...But the collapse of the subprime lending market and the steep fall in property prices during the past 18 months brought that growth to an end....
...Kapur does not disagree: “It’s a fact that a person living in the poshest apartment on the 40th floor in Bombay can get as much running water as he needs every day, at a negligible price....
...“It’s like living in a village but you have the advantages of a big city.”...
...This, though, the catalogue to the Cambridge and Yale exhibition of new work – this year’s most enthralling show by a living painter – is a gem....
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