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...They think we should be building these towers on streets. But we live in a rough tough city and the towers are a kind of refuge. We are designing them in real places. They are not gated communities....
...Luckily, they voted 634 to 204 in his favour, with two main stipulations — the site must remain publicly accessible until at least 2030 and the municipality must be given first refusal in any future sale...
...Only about 17 per cent of Schwab’s client accounts were located in California at the end of 2022. More than 40 per cent of its $25.7bn in residential real-estate loans are on properties in California....
...“You can walk into real countryside within minutes, but at the same time there is plenty going on.” The river Thames, which runs along the eastern edge of the town, is one of the main draws....
...For Hélène Roux, race may have been a part of the problem but the main issues were ignorance and greed. “You have to understand the real property value of this place....
...“That was the main selling point for me: if I didn’t have that I’d still be looking.” For his sale, he remains optimistic....
...Neither of us were able to speak to a real person, despite hours on hold. Homelessness has overwhelmed Los Angeles....
...In an eight-month restoration, they gutted the interior — mercifully the exterior walls were in good nick — to create an exclusive-use property of real panache and charm....
...At University of California, Berkeley some students reportedly avoided Milken’s classes because he skewed the grading curve. But serendipity also played a part....
...“Terry and I moved the kitchen to the upper floor [where the main living area is],” he says. “She wanted to be able to cook and to see everybody at the same time....
...For several years, new shops have been opening along the main street at a steady rate....
...What Spread between a main home and a guest house on just over an acre of grounds, this property has seven bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a cinema, wine cellar, bar, seven-car garage, infinity pool and spa....
...New York Yankees and LA fund join investors in AC Milan The New York Yankees baseball franchise and Los Angeles investment fund Main Street Advisors are investing in AC Milan alongside Redbird, the US private...
...But with so many gardens centrally located, visitors’ itineraries should be a lot more leisurely....
...Gaming companies have been hit as players return to “real-world” pursuits and cut back on spending....
...She’d met Bankman-Fried during his brief stint at the Wall Street trading firm Jane Street a decade ago. At Alameda, she was a low-key boss. “Caroline didn’t have a lot of gravitas,” said one staffer....
...Roughly a fifth of all commercial real estate value in the US is located in New York, Miami and Houston, according to CoStar data. All of those cities are flooding hotspots. These risks are not new....
...Last month we arrived anticipating a warm fire and a pint of real ale only to find the pub closed up, recently sold by the brewery to a property developer....
...And so you've got the system where these globalised, very fragile, highly 'efficient' supply chains are enriching Wall Street but starving Main Street and driving small farmers out of business....
...Instead, he decided to share the house with Harlan Rush and his family, who moved to Sark from Germany at the end of 2020. Rush, 55, asks me not to use his real name....
...It capitalises on the boom in Sri Lanka’s southern coastal property market, which has included Galle Fort, where Sangakkara’s house is located and where homes for sale are as rare as hen’s teeth....
...My last day in Maine, I meet with Peter Drinkwater, proprietor of Winter Harbor’s general store and prominent local realtor, in his shop on Main Street....
...Beaverbrook Town House opened a few weeks ago in two Grade I-listed Georgian houses on Sloane Street....
...“People talked about being able to lay down in the middle of Main Street at 5 o’clock. After people left [work], there was no one else down there,” says Bowman....
...To keep small enterprises afloat as the US locked down, the federal government disbursed $525bn in 2020 through the Paycheck Protection Program, using banks as the main intermediaries at the start....
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