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Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighbourhood New York Deserves?
The New York Times uses some spectacular visuals and harsh words to explore the USA's biggest ever private mixed-use property venture - Hudson Yards.
The Country Life Top 100 builders, architects, interior decorators and garden designers in Britain
Venerable lifestyle weekly releases its annual guide to the best practitioners working in the country house field...
The Celebrity Premium Myth And Why Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Is Finally Priced To Sell
As Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch sees another dramatic price cut (the asking price has dropped from $100m in 2015 to $31m now), Forbes explores whether a celebrity owner has any real impact on a property's…
Inside the Hong Kong mansion of the Harilelas, one of city’s wealthiest families
The South China Morning Post takes a guided tour of the ultra-wealthy Harilela family's extraordinary complex in Kowloon, which is home to over 90 people...
The real Crazy Rich Asian palace is worth a cool $3.5 billion
Bloomberg reports on two abandoned palaces in a "swathe of untended jungle" in the heart of Singapore, that could be worth US$3.5bn if they were ever sold for development.
London’s property ‘flippers’ forced to sell at a loss
The FT reports on investors being caught out in the capital's off-plan market...
Taxing the profit made by selling a primary residence makes sense
"This will be hugely politically unpopular, until it becomes obvious that the housing market is entrenching intergenerational inequality and ossifying the economy"
The real problem with stamp duty
"The Anti-Stampers’ case is compelling, but the challenge is finding a replacement that people will not hate just as much", writes Nathan Brooker in this piece for the FT...
Wealth taxes are back in fashion – but they’re still a terrible idea
'There is simply no escaping the fact that wealth is far more difficult to tax than income,' argues Jan Zeber in The Spectator.
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
The Guardian's architecture critic Oliver Wainwright rails against esoteric planning rules that have allowed 'a new breed of needle-like tower' to punch through the New York skyline.
The Presidents Club investigation: one year on
Has anything changed since the FT’s sexual harassment exposé?
Why the housing ladder doesn’t exist any more
The FT's Thomas Hale has written an interesting piece (with lots of sums), arguing that the traditional lifetime escalation from a first-time buyer's flat to a family-sized house is now 'a myth that young…