A 13,230-square-foot Florida villa is headed for online auction starting Jan. 22, according to Concierge Auctions, which is presenting the sale. The eight-bedroom, nine-bathroom home will be sold without reserve through Concierge Auctions’ online marketplace. The winner will be determined when the gavel goes down on Jan. 26, said Carolyn Wright, project sales manager at […]
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A 1930s mansion in Pacific Palisades with some serious celebrity cachet has hit the market for the first time in 20 years. The traditional-style red-brick pile is one of a number of homes actress Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband, TV writer-producer David E. Kelley, have bought and sold around the posh Los Angeles neighborhood. The […]
Almost a quarter of all household wealth in the UK is held by the richest 1% of the population, according to alarming new research that reveals a historic underestimation of inequality in the country. The study found that the top 1% had almost £800bn more wealth than suggested by official statistics, meaning that inequality has […]
The Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla’s share price increased on Thursday. He takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017. Mr Musk’s electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for […]
One of the saving graces of the first UK lockdown was when the first rays of summer came, and we were able to grab a takeaway pint and sit in the sun a couple of metres away from a friend or two. Now, for the January lockdown, it’s not just the summer weather we’ll be lacking, […]
In the immortal words of Samuel Johnson, “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life” – and at the moment, it sure looks like a lot of people are tired of life. I mention this because accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has released their UK Economic Update for 2021, a report which indicates that London’s […]
As the coronavirus crisis deepens over the winter, London is facing a serious health crisis. That’s been brought home today, as Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has formally declared a “major incident” in the capital as a result of surging coronavirus cases. After consulting with NHS trusts in London, emergency services, local authorities, and Public […]
In order to keep new strains of Covid-19 out of the UK, the government is set to implement tighter border controls. International travellers heading to the UK via plane, train or ferry will soon be required to present a negative test certificate no more than 72 hours before departure in order to enter the country, […]
2020 may be over but unfortunately, the bad news just keeps rolling in. It has just been announced that Topshop’s iconic flagship store on Oxford Street is being sold off. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear the faint cries of fashionistas all over the city. There was truly no greater feeling than exiting Oxford Circus Station […]
British real estate agents remained hopeful that robust housing demand will continue despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement Monday night that England would enter the most extreme lockdown measures since Covid-19 first gripped the U.K. last spring. “The latest news of another national lockdown should do little to slow the momentum of the U.K. property […]