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...Last year Sprod and Bullock opened a clutch of tumbledown farm buildings as an eco-resort collection of suites and apartments....
...Kona Village Resort, on Hawaii’s Big Island, which Rosewood re-flagged earlier this year, is now powered by 8,000 solar panels – the largest private micro-grid in the state, and the only one to run entirely...
...There’s now a shortage of properties on the market in Mallorca, according to Hans Lenz, MD of Engel & Völkers Southwest Mallorca....
...Eventually, we reached a building where a plaque informed us that Kieślowski had lived in an apartment on the first floor....
...Over the past few months, the local government has resettled 84 households, or half the village, in Zhaojue, giving them apartments at the heavily subsidised price of Rmb10,000 (£1,130) per apartment....
...Gary Kelly, chief executive of Southwest Airlines, said this month that he would not be surprised to see business travel “languish for a decade”....
...A 100 sq m apartment will sell for $1.2m....
...The prettiest parts of the German countryside have never been anywhere near as popular with overseas home buyers as, for instance, Tuscany in Italy or the Périgord region of southwest France....
...Second, Philadelphia is just 150km southwest of Manhattan, making trips between the cities relatively easy....
...Prospect House, Wimbledon, London, UK, £16.5m Where On the edge of Wimbledon village, southwest London. Heathrow airport is about an hour’s drive away....
...After all, it is not every village that has its own opera house, national ballet company and philharmonic orchestra....
...What A three-bedroom penthouse with 173 sq metres of living space in the Shiki apartment building. The property has an open-plan kitchen, dining and living space with views of Mount Youtei....
...Barnes, a suburb of southwest London that hugs a bend in the Thames, managed to stave off the worst of the downturn....
...The Denver-based private equity group bought Cannizaro House in southwest London for around £20m, and opened a Malmaison in Dundee. But it has asked UBS to examine strategic options....
..., east of the city centre £1m A four-bedroom detached home, southwest of the city centre £3m A four-bedroom detached house in a village to the northwest of the city Photographs and slideshow photographs...
...As a result, Lowe says: “We are seeing fewer British buyers in their thirties taking the plunge and moving from southwest London.”...
...Hyperoptic is most active in London, where it provides gigabit broadband from central riverside apartments to developments near the M25....
...This may explain why the landlord of the apartment where this columnist roosts is digging in the cellar....
...In 2009, the Berkeley Group opened the first phase of the £1bn Kidbrooke Village development on what used to be the rundown, council-run Ferrier Estate....
...The south-facing property has about 3,344 sq ft of living space, including four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a roof terrace and a separate guest apartment....
...“Lots from southwest London,” says Emma Humphrys of Hamptons International. Her agency recently sold a seven-bedroom, detached, double-fronted, period house in Harold Road for £2.39m....
...drive west from Farnham station takes you across the county border to the countryside of Hampshire Now a spate of new developments is bringing a different feel to pockets of this market town, 35 miles southwest...
...Yorkshire, UK €500,000 A three-bedroom penthouse apartment in a high-end development in Leeds city centre €1m A five-bedroom family home in a North Yorkshire village with a large garden €2m A substantial...
...the edge of the village of Ambeyrac, two hours’ drive from Toulouse and an hour’s drive from Rodez-Marcillac airport....
...It is Saturday morning and Clifton village is full of shoppers perusing boutiques and seeking refreshment in one of the many independent coffee shops....
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