• Giorgio Armani designs $10 million apartment at world's tallest residential tower

    Along with Jade Jagger designed houses, the Lodha Group has added new heights to the super luxury living in Mumbai, India with World One - the world's tallest residential tower. The builders have roped in Italian couturier Giorgio Armani to design Best in Class apartments in the world's tallest residential building that is said to retail at a whooping half a billion rupees ($10.1 million). Giorgo Armani, renowned for clean, tailored lines, will be dressing up luxurious apartments in...

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    by kamakshi, posted February 5, 2012 - 3:16 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • The most expensive apartment in Manhattan goes for $88 million

    How much do you thing would the most expensive house in Manhattan cost? Well, Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has the answer to that, as he just picked it up for a stunning $88million. The 6,744 sq ft apartment with 10-room gives pretty views of Central Park, Manhattan. The pad also sports a "2,077 sq ft wrap-around terrace, seven walk-in closets and a den with its own bar". Rybolovlev has been listed as the 93rd richest person in the world...

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    by kamakshi, posted December 20, 2011 - 5:19 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Stay at New York City's tallest residential tower and pay $200,000 for a storage bin

    If you are looking at buying a condominium 90-storied tower One57, then you can actually get yourself a shining new bin at the base for $200,000. There are 17 basement wire-mesh bins that are 7-feet in height that is going for $3,776 per square foot but only to the condo owners of the building. The high rise built by Extell Development also boasts of rental apartments and a Hyatt hotel at the prime location of West 57th Street near...

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    by kamakshi, posted December 13, 2011 - 6:34 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • The most expensive beach apartment in the world sold for $21.5 million

    Listed for $ 27 million, and despite selling way below it at $21.5million, Penthouse A at the Setai South Beach Resort in Miami created a new record of being the most expensive single condo unit to be sold at $3,704 per square foot cost. The 5803 square-foot, multi-story residence that is perched atop the 40-storey Setai resort offers stunning views of the South Beach as well as the Atlantic Ocean. The house boasts of four bedrooms along with four...

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    by kamakshi, posted December 12, 2011 - 3:23 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • The most expensive rental apartment in New York costs $165,000 a month

    Nothing in Manhattan comes cheap. If you are fixated on everything that comes with the "most expensive" tag, here is the Astor Suite at The Plaza Hotel, the most expensive rental apartment in NYC on the market for $165,000 per month. The famous hotel was built in 1907 and an intresting historic appeal attached to its name. the first ever guest who walked in was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and after World War II, guests such as the Duke and...

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    by bree, posted December 9, 2011 - 4:22 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • UK's most expensive single private residence sells for $188 million

    Looks like Indians are more than wanting to take London by storm. After the Hindujas, it's time for more Indian billionaires to call London home. Chairman of the London Metal Exchange, Raj Bagri has reportedly sold his Regent's Park property in north London for a whopping £120 million ($188 million). The blueprints had been drawn up by John Nash (who has also done the blueprint for Buckingham Palace) and Prince Charles' favored architect, Quinlan Terry recreated the structure into...

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    by kamakshi, posted November 22, 2011 - 4:40 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Buy Mirrorcube tree house and stay off ground and out of sight in style

    If living high on a tree house with all the luxuries of the world is something you are looking forward to, then you are in luck. The Treehotel from Tham & Videgård is a good option to look at. Rechristened as a Mirrorcube, the mirrored cube structure can be yours to keep, which means that you don’t need to plan a trip to Sweden again. The cube base is crafted using lightweight aluminum, and the exteriors sport a mirrored...

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    by kamakshi, posted November 7, 2011 - 4:51 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Indian billionaire brothers spend $160 million on a royal mansion near Buckingham Palace

    The Queen of England has competition from some Indian billionaires. The Hinduja brothers have now decided to "invest" (read splurge) in an expensive home in London, just an earshot from the iconic Buckingham Palace. The Hindujas who boast of a £6 billion ($9.61 billion) fortune, took five years to restore the £100 million ($160 million) mansion that was originally built for King George IV in the 1820s. the palatial mansion boasts of six floors and 50 rooms that will...

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    by kamakshi, posted November 7, 2011 - 4:25 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Towers will rise up to the highest standard of living

    Eat your heart out Mukesh Ambani as India’s liquor barron Vijay Mallya’s new home at Kingfisher Towers-Residences, UB City, Bengaluru will be ready in the next three years. As opposed to the $1 billion Antilla, the “White House in the sky”will stand 34-storey tall on a site that used to be Mallaya’s ancestral home on Vittal Mallya Road. The cherry on top is a stunning pent house. The tower has 82 residential broken into in three blocks, from which...

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    by kamakshi, posted October 18, 2011 - 9:06 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • John Malone replaces Ted Turner as America's biggest individual landowner

    In the age where people want a piece of earth water and sky, the 2011 Land Report 100 says that John Malone leads the race on American soil as he has now emerged as America's biggest individual landowner. The 70-year-old currently stakes ownership in 2.2 million acres of land, including the over 1 million acres of timberland in Maine and New Hampshire that he added to his empire earlier this year. But he doesn't want to have it all...

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    by kamakshi, posted October 14, 2011 - 3:42 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Jade Jagger’s Ibiza home for sale

    She’s designed homes for aplenty and now Jade Jagger, daughter of music icon Mick Jagger and god daughter of iconic artist Andy Warhol, is allowing one ardent fan to possess her own den. She has put her five-bedroom villa, near San Joan in Ibiza up for sale. She had moved to this place 10 years ago to bring up her children Amba and Assisi, helping them achieve a broad education. Now that they have grown up they want to...

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    by shilpa, posted September 23, 2011 - 8:44 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • World`s largest artificial island can now be yours for almost $10 million

    Not many people have the privilege to own a private island of their very own. And if that is the one illusive piece in your luxury puzzle, the King’s Island in Denmark can be yours for keeps. Made for the Danish King Christian IX in 1890, the island spans over 180,000 square feet island boasts of 200 rooms, more than two and a half miles of hallways and needed two and a half million tons of solid Bornholm granite...

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    by kamakshi, posted August 24, 2011 - 3:35 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Most expensive Manhattan mansion resells for a discounted price

    When you hear an investor invested into an investment you would think that he would have calculated well and thought a few miles ahead for good returns. So when we hear of J Christopher Flowers reselling his $53 million Harkness mansion for $36.5 million, you would think – ‘huh’? The mansion, considered to be the most expensive one in Manhattan when it was bought in 2006, has been grabbed by art dealer and gallery owner Larry Gagosian. Apparently, Flowers...

    by shilpa, posted August 19, 2011 - 7:25 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • Britain's most expensive house sold to a Russian for £140 million

    A 300 year-old Grade II-listed property, in Oxon was snapped up for $230 million (£140m) by an unidentified buyer, making it the most expensive home sold. It includes about 200 acres of the parklands, listed monuments, house, cottages, stables and a boat house. The main house was once owned by Frederick, Prince of Wales and eldest son of George II and has the original huge stone fireplaces and stained glass windows. What makes it quite appealing, though, is that...

    by shilpa, posted August 16, 2011 - 8:59 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

  • World’s largest tower in Jeddah will rise high at the cost of $1.2 billion

    When Saudi Arabia announced that they were going to build a tower twice size the height of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, we all dropped our jaws. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a man of taste and means business and has unveiled the first news on the progress of the plans by awarding Saudi Binladin Group a contract to build the new world’s tallest tower in Jeddah. It will be all of 1,000 metres and will cost Alwaleed’s investing company...

    by shilpa, posted August 2, 2011 - 8:47 AM in Real Estate| Comments ()

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