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Sustainability and the luxury real estate sector: an unlikely marriage?
High-end developers, architects, designers and homebuyers have not always been at the forefront of the environmental agenda, but things are changing, writes Mickey Alam Khan

Mickey Alam Khan is President of Luxury Portfolio International, the leading network of the world’s premier luxury real estate brokerages and their top agents
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