‘The Mountain of Beverley Hills’ was listed at $1bn; it’s sold for just $100k
Super-prime 157-acre hilltop site in Los Angeles goes to a credit bid at auction for 0.1% of its original asking price
Fashion designer acquires iconic Lake Maggiore estate
Donatella Versace has shelled out €5m for the Mondadori Villa, which has been in the hands of the Mondadori publishing dynasty since the 1920s and hosted luminaries including Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway…
The $100m+ Club: Putting last week’s French Riviera & Singapore mega-deals in context
How do the sales of Villa ‘Les Cèdres’ and Nassim Road rank amongst all the publicly-recorded $100m+ transactions since 2006?
Singapore bungalow sets new price record
The chairman of developer Wing Tai Holdings has been linked with a record-breaking £137m purchase in the wealthy city-state
The Riviera’s magnificent Villa ‘Les Cèdres’ sells for €200m
Italian drinks firm Campari has found a private buyer for the remarkable Villa ‘Les Cèdres’ in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, which was once listed for sale at €350m
Inside the eye-popping Dolce & Gabbana villa on Stromboli
The Italian fashion icons’ amazing Aeolian holiday home is up for sale, asking £5.8m
Hong Kong sells Kai Tak’s biggest residential plot at discount as city’s unrest drives investors to sidelines
The South China Morning Post reports that a consortium has acquired the biggest resi development site on the former Kai Tak Airport – paying less than the low-end market valuation
NYC apartment owners pay $11m to keep their views
Residents of a high-end block in west Manhattan have managed to prevent a new development from obstructing their views of the Empire State Building – without a court case in sight…
Italian government to auction off historic palazzi and villas in €1bn ‘fire sale’
93 buildings – including an 11th Century former convent in Venice, and a 15th Century palazzo in Florence – are being sold off by the populist League and Five Star parties to help trim the country’s €2.4 trillion debt