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...Withdrawal requests at the $70bn Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (Breit) rose 15 per cent in March after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, to $4.5bn....
...Soon the harder work begins, as one turns off the valley road and begins a short, sharp 200m ascent through the woods to the hamlet of Buchenegg on the top of the ridge itself....
...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....
...Amazon, Apple and Google each offering wearable health tracking devices of their own, harnessing the power of the surging private capital industry will be essential for Whoop to ruffle feathers in Silicon Valley...
...But the allure of Silicon Valley has proven harder to shake than they thought....
...Racism in the ValleyBlack venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have been sharing stories of racism in their industry since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis three weeks ago....
...I continued along the ridge....
...Its “walking and wine” trip in the Italian Apennines, for example, explores the hills around the historic towns of Urbino and Gubbio, including a night in the tiny hamlet of Bacciardi, perched on a ridge...
...“There are a lot of people who would be very happy with a two-bedroom apartment in a city that they can afford.”...
...In the deep valleys of the Alps, you often find yourself staring up at a soaring ridge above — impressive but confining — here the mountains rolled on and on, like frozen waves in a boundless ocean....
...Yet as I ambled around the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload...
...Georges pointed out the 19th-century fort on the ridge at 2,390m, the arrival point of what had been La Rosière’s highest lift....
...I stayed in a double-wide trailer before relocating to the head of the Sequatchie Valley, where a huge cave loomed in my backyard....
...The morning dawned bright and clear, and I set off early for Zermatt, one of the Alps’ most celebrated resorts, just over the high ridge formed by the Matterhorn’s southern flank — 13 miles as the crow flies...
...“In the evenings we sometimes drive up on to the top of the ridge and watch the sun set,” says Turnbull. “We’ve seen bears up there and lots of deer and wild animals....
...It doesn’t include accommodation listings but the small hotels, bed and breakfasts and private apartments in the villages along the route are easy enough to find online....
...Who Strutt & Parker, struttandparker.com, tel: +44 20 7629 7282 Sunset Ridge, Telluride, Colorado, US, $29m Where On a private ridge of land close to the former silver-mining town of Telluride....
...Beyond it, we ascended a snow-covered valley, walking in single file on our skis....
...The sender’s Gmail account appears as “Peter Ridge”, a name no one involved in the affair seems to know....
...view that sweeps over the terracotta rooftops of the small hamlet of Poggio, across the deep Rizzanese valley and up to the high mountain ridge on the far side....
...Germany’s Ruhr Valley has turned a legacy of industrial archaeology into a post-industrial pilgrimage....
...This winter will see the pistes of Fieberbrunn linked by a new gondola to those of Hinterglemm, a resort in a neighbouring valley....
...Simply put, a col is nothing more than the lowest point on a hilly ridge, but Robb finds them captivating — magical portals from one valley to the next, many imbued with myths and legends....
...Sheer drops fell away to the Sagsai valley far below, where herds of tavan hoshuu mal looked like specks of coal dust on a canvas of white....
...In fact, the link-up requires just one lift, which will sit on land already controlled by the company and will travel over a ridge and down the other side....
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