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...The former Olympic Village is now a healthy mix of housing with maturing trees and washing on the balconies....
...A four-bedroom apartment in a 19th century palazzo with citrus garden is on the market for €930,000. E&V is listing a 12-bedroom 19th-century villa near Scicli for €3.2m....
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...Near the ramparts of the city, Found & Baker is selling a two-bedroom apartment overlooking the Verversdijk for €745,000. “Everything here is exclusive,” says Maxime Dury of E&V....
...“People visiting their apartments for a week each year aren’t great for the village.” A retired de Rothschild bank executive began discussing a new hotel with Four Seasons more than a decade ago....
...The average price of a palazzo in the Old Town increased from €3.5m in 2016 to €3.8m in 2017, according to E&V, with average prices in the Old Town of up to €7,000 per square metre....
...Fifth Avenue starts about 50 blocks to the south at the Washington Square Arch in Greenwich Village....
...One area already buzzing with restaurants, markets and tourist attractions is the V&A Waterfront, where there are 515 apartments overlooking quiet canals in a gated development with 1,000 CCTV cameras....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...These include the Ritz, the George V, the Meurice and the Plaza-Athénée, the last two being part of the Dorchester group....
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