Hints and tips:
...“I spend a lot of my life doing that: trying to figure out a way that gets two people from one side of the river to the other side of the river without both drowning on the way. And that’s a talent.”...
...“It’s a terrific building, he is a great operator and five years ago I would have happily gone in....
...“Every owner will be able to see the Manhattan skyline, the East River and the Statue of Liberty.”...
...From their apartment 53 storeys above the bustle of Columbus Circle, they could peek over neighbouring skyscrapers to the Hudson River. Their lifestyle depended on Ganieva’s silence....
...But also via 12 “atmospheric rivers” in Southern California that brought every last thing to a halt last spring....
...It was just one of many accoutrements Windhorst amassed to illustrate his financial resurrection, including a superyacht, helicopter, jet and luxury apartment at One Hyde Park....
...“I wanted proximity to a park, easy access to a library and a nearby subway station,” he says....
...“For years I could still smell the wood when I walked into the apartment,” said Yabu. It’s an obsession with materials that remains consistent through a portfolio that can also seem disparate....
...Florida believes that cities like New York and London will quickly revive – “If there’s a huge sale, that’s where I’d buy.” From a tech perspective, New York remains an inviting prospect....
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...Still, as one portfolio manager at a brand-name private equity shop admits to me: “I can understand why people are concerned. It’s housing....
...The average sales price of new developments rose 89.4 per cent to $7.6m, but that reflected Mr Griffin’s purchase of an apartment overlooking Central Park, adding to his extensive portfolio of prime properties...
...Next comes the cepe culón, a glossy black ant harvested from Bolivia’s Madidi National Park and presented with beet leaves and avocado emulsion....
...His buildings, dotted across London, include The Knightsbridge, an upmarket apartment block off Hyde Park, and the headquarters of the fashion chain Reiss close to Oxford Street....
...“People are saying, ‘I really want to buy this house but I now have to take a much longer view of home ownership’. People now think, ‘I might not break even’.”...
...Vince Rivers, senior portfolio manager at JO Hambro, said his firm had put in for a “sizeable allocation” only to receive a tiny fraction of it....
...Parker Stanberry, a US expat living in Buenos Aires and founder of Oasis Collections who began redeveloping his own portfolio of design-oriented apartments for short-term rentals in 2004, underlines the...
...Group hotels with familiar names line broad boulevards on both river banks....
...The show apartments have their own underground car park, complete with valet, and oversized handbag lockers in case female prospective buyers want to venture out on site....
...There’s this big, big park, Stanley Park, on a peninsula jutting into the bay....
...Other downtown condos, further from the river, are less expensive. A one-bedroom apartment in the renovated Southern Railway Building lists for $164,900....
...I left as quickly as possible, nearly running the half block to the trees and green grass of Rock Creek Park. The air tasted clean and pure and the sun had started to dip into the Potomac....
...Nowadays it’s the Russians – but their focus is quite different: they favour upmarket apartments in Sofia. Ironically, for somebody who works with a portfolio of lovely flats, I still live in hotels....
...I would bet that 35 per cent of the people who own an apartment there are here only two or three weeks out of the year.” Not everyone agrees that quiet streets are such a bad thing, of course....
...I ask him why everything in Gurgaon has a Californian name. The apartment high-rises are called Beverly Hills, Belvedere Towers, Silver Oaks, Windsor Court and West End Heights....
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