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I visited the Top Marques show in Monaco this  past weekend. Top Marques is a luxury supercar show. The main reason for my visit was to see what Knight Frank were up to. Seeing as they were one of the sponsors. A successful show was the impression I got when I spoke to their rep. The show itself ...

Giorgio Armani has come in for considerable criticism for using children in what some people believe are sexually suggestive poses. Personally, I agree with the critics. What do you think? Is this OK? Or is it a fuss over nothing? Full article here 

Rafaello Follieri heads to jail for bouncing check Raffaello Follieri, an Italian business man and real estate mogul wannabe, was charged with writing a bad check. And not just any bad check, dear ones. A check for $215,000 (TMZ reports $250K). Ouch. Now that is creative financing, no? The NY Pos...

Any one heading off to Madrid for the real estate exhibition? Madrid is gorgeous this time of year. Wish I was, that's for sure.The Largest Real State Exhibition in The World   

The Luxury Property Blog is excited to announce the news that we now have our first fully functional foreign language blogiHaozhai.cn is a manually translated, Chinese domain. Chinese SEO doesn’t come naturally to me, so we have employed an in-country translator/blogger to help on that front.If a...

Russian restaurateur, Arkady Novinov, has apparently purchased Gianni Versace's Villa Fontanelle on the shore of Lake Como - Price $52 million. Full details here:Villa Fontanelle Sold     

Well, if fashion designers can open hotels and restaurants, I guess it makes sense for yacht makers to become property developers.Ferretti yachts has just announced  their intention to build a $1.6 billion waterfront project in Dubai (as if Dubai needed any more development)And, you get three fre...

Thos of you who have read some of my other posts will know I am not a big fan of home-made videos uploaded to youtube as a real estate marketing tool.  But, I am making it my mission in life to collect the BEST real estate videos in one place. This is my first - I have dubbed it "Surreal Estate,"...

Thos of you who may have read some of my previous posts may have noticed, I am not a big fan of creating home-made videos and using YouTube as a market place for said video.But, I am also making it my mission in life to collect together the bet quality real estate videos I can lay my hands on. Th...