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...“If we lend private debt to borrowers in Turkey, we can get gas stations and apartments and shopping malls as uncorrelated collateral to their business yet still get 10 per cent additional yield per annum...
...Sceptics (including your writer) questioned the wisdom of locating a property intended to compete with the likes of Claridge’s in the weird socio-demographic selva oscura between Covent Garden and Fleet...
...“The residential part of the building starts on the 53rd floor,” says Georgina Atkinson, an associate partner at Knight Frank that, in association with Douglas Elliman, is marketing apartments starting from...
...Then, the following week at The Modern, overlooking the sculpture garden at MoMA, where Black was on the board. In September, they met in London....
...A garden party in Mr Black’s honour that year, at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, marked his arrival as an American luminary....
...He owns three other properties in Chicago, and a $200m apartment in New York that occupies three floors of Manhattan’s 220 Central Park South skyscraper....
...The Georgian house in London, a Grade II*-listed 1820s home, is at 3 Carlton Gardens in the St James’s neighbourhood, near Buckingham Palace....
...In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens and Bushwick, sales rose 21 per cent....
...A 100 sq m apartment will sell for $1.2m....
...Be careful selecting paint colours for the wall and shrubs for the garden when the landlord is a cut-throat investor such as Steve Schwarzman (Blackstone), Barry Sternlicht (Starwood) or Tom Barrick (Colony...
...The ground floor has marble flooring, a chef’s kitchen and a dining room that opens on to a fully landscaped garden....
...The property comes with a gym, spa area and indoor pool and is set in more than six acres of land, featuring a lake and gardens....
...The dining area on top has views of Bishop’s Palace gardens and the cathedral, and out towards Palma Bay....
...Charles Cherney, vice-president of Hammond Real Estate, points out that about 80 per cent of the city’s properties are apartments, making these figures appear artificially low....
...Prices of two-bedroom apartments fell four per cent to $637,000 but values of one-bedroom apartments rose three per cent to $445,000....
...Famous for being the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, it caters for conferences, marquee events or dinners in the palace and state apartments....
...“The town of Recas, in the west, is dominated by Scottish-style castles with lions on the gateposts, turrets on the roofs and white marble dwarfs in the gardens....
...Passers-by glance up as a crane lifts it out of 28 Hyde Park Gardens Mews, taking casual interest in a musical instrument on the move. But they have no idea of its real significance....
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