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...Blackstone bought billions of dollars worth of apartment buildings, suburban houses and other residential assets during the pandemic....
...But the book serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)....
...At the Spring Place private members club in Manhattan, Blackstone said the unfolding financial crisis could bolster Breit’s earnings because it would constrain bank financing for new real estate construction...
...Fourteen Days edited by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (Chatto & Windus) This “collaborative novel” unites writers including Celeste Ng, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue for a story set in a New York apartment...
...Real estate is a great place to be in an inflationary environment so long as you pick the right sectors....
...It’s a pool of money, mostly from wealthy individuals, which is used to buy property assets including warehouses, apartments, student housing and data centres....
...The Blackstone chief was apparently referring to his own five houses, which reportedly included a coastal estate in Saint-Tropez and a beachfront place in Jamaica — said to have set him back $125mn....
...A self-catered private apartment for short lets is also under construction. Most of it was built by Eek and his team during lockdown....
...But tax credits only reduce the tax bills of businesses that pay tax in the first place....
...X, a scheme of 369 new homes with affordable housing and shared ownership options, prices from £285,000 for a one-bed apartment....
...“Rae Street” is named after a Melbourne address where Barnett, 34, spent some of last year living in a friend’s empty apartment....
...Nuveen Investments held fourth place after its real estate assets grew 8.6 per cent to €118bn....
...Everything seems to have happened there, from the launch of the LP record in 1948 to IBM’s personal computer in 1981....
...Smith lives in Long Preston, a village near Settle — the wider area is home to Yorkshire’s Three Peaks 12-hour challenge....
...There are even two booths with their own awnings, like you might see extending over the sidewalk outside apartment buildings in Manhattan....
...(FT) MBAs rebound Demand for places at business school has rebounded, as prospective students flee a labour market battered by the coronavirus....
...It’s an obvious transition for an industry that has so much money to spend but very few places to spend it in....
...Totteridge Place, a 124-unit new-build development where prices start from £589,950 for a two-bedroom apartment, is technically in Whetstone, a lower-priced area, according to agents....
...Some apartments in the scheme have had their prices cut....
...The play takes place in New York’s theatreland, with the background set featuring skeletons of tall skyscrapers and neon lights....
...The area around Cyprus Avenue is not gritty, but it’s certainly no place of privilege....
...Dimensional has been in the city since 2006, having started in the New York apartment of chairman David Booth in 1981 and later moving to Santa Monica, California....
...But for every Brutalist structure with protected status and a place on screen-printed tote bags — see also the Barbican and Preston Bus Station — others are turning to dust....
...A Sade album is propped up on a neat stack of vinyl LPs. She’s recently moved out of a similar estate in Peckham, which she thinks is probably going to be torn down and replaced with luxury apartments....
...Its maker, one Preston T Tucker, was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission — beating Elon Musk to that distinction by fully 70 years....
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