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Londoners know all too well the heartache of not having a garden in flats we pay astronomical amounts for. That means no barbecues, no quickie smoke, or even growing plant babies we love (and not having to squeeze them into a tiny balcony). But one house in Australia has found a quirky way to add some greenery. Dubbed the ‘grass house’ this Melbourne home has shrubs adorned all over its exterior. Owners can enjoy the wall garden that surrounds the facade of the house without having to lean out of their windows trying to water it. The nature-filled wall is attached to an automated system connected to water tanks. And the inside of the property is just as striking. The...

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Mexico is auctioning off six houses once owned by jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — complete with reinforced metal gates and escape tunnels into Culiacan’s sewer system. Among the properties on the block is the two-story house in the Guadalupe neighborhood that served as Guzman’s headquarters for his Sinaloa cartel and includes a tunnel beneath the bathtub, the Mexican news agency Milenio reported. Bidding on the notorious drug lord’s home office on Calle Rio Humaya is due to start at $107,349. In all, the six homes are expected to fetch a minimum of 19.5 million pesos — the equivalent of $1 million — when they go to auction...

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Actress Liv Tyler has been a fixture in the West Village for almost two decades. Now she has just sold her historic townhouse for $17.45 million in an off-market deal, according to city property records. Tyler bought the four-story townhouse, at 255 W. 11th St., in 2001 for $2.53 million and spent years fixing it up. She told Architectural Digest in August that every window and door is new, with wooden floors sourced from a farm upstate. The buyer is an LLC formed in August that is traced to an East Hampton address once owned by Betsey Johnson. Resy founder Ben Leventhal and his wife Lizzie bought Johnson’s East Hampton cottage in 2016. “I just love how I don’t...

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A lavish three-level penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — a lair with some star history, no less — is coming back to the market for $50 million after selling just two years ago. Located in the high-profile San Remo, the Wall Street Journal reports the home’s last owner was actress Demi Moore, who sold it to the current — and unidentified — owner for $45 million. That sale price was a full $30 million off Moore’s original $75 million ask in 2014. Before Moore, the home was owned by Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood. During the time he lived there, he expanded the unit from a duplex to a triplex by buying some mechanical space at the top of...

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Google has won approval from Taiwan’s government to build a second data centre in the country at a cost of around $850m. Although Google hasn’t confirmed the decision, Taiwan’s Investment Commission said Google’s approved outlay will expand its data centre operations in the country, including the purchase of related equipment. The commission said Google will make its Taiwan investment through its British Virgin Islands-registered Kohl Holdings Ltd. In September, Google announced that it wanted to build its second data centre in Tainan. The first became operational in Changhua County back in 2013. Construction of the Tainan facility is scheduled to begin at the...

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  A Millan House duplex returned to market this week for $6.25 million — up from its $5.9 million asking price earlier this month. The three-bedroom, 3½ bathroom home was formerly owned by real estate heiress/architect/socialite Serena Rhinelander Stewart, whose grandfather William Rhinelander Stewart Sr. commissioned architect Stanford White to design Washington Square Park’s arch. She originally bought it in 2004 from the estate of 1940s author Kathleen Winsor, whose hit “Forever Amber” novel detailed the sexcapades of a woman in 17th-century England. The bestseller was banned in 14 American states as pornography for its sex scenes and abortion...

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YOU can stay a chocolate-themed hotel in the south of the UK for just £30 per person per night.The Chocolate Boutique Hotel also offers chocolate baskets or fountain packages - or you can just make the most of the free daily truffles. The hotel, just minutes from Bournemouth Beach, has recently been renovated after featuring on BBC's Interior Design Masters earlier this year. The 15 bedrooms are decorated in browns and creams, reminiscent of chocolate, and range from a single room to a double suite in size. Every room includes a daily helping of chocolate, as well as breakfast, which includes chocolate pancakes. You can also pay a bit more for chocolate themed packages. A...

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  Soho China is said to be looking to sell a RMB 61 billion ($8.6 billion) portfolio of commercial properties in Beijing and Shanghai, with potential buyers including Blackstone and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC. The portfolio is said to consist of the developer’s eight core commercial assets in the two cities, which includes the Zaha Hadid-designed Soho Galaxy in the Chinese capital. The Beijing-based developer, which is helmed by husband and wife power-couple Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, is said to have packaged up an initial trio of assets valued at $3 billion – two in Beijing and one in Shanghai – which it is marketing to the US private equity giant and...

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Henderson Land Development, Hong Kong’s third-largest property company with a market capitalisation of HK$189.9 billion (US$24.2 billion), will loan 430,000 sq ft of farmland to the city’s government for seven years for the development of 2,000 transitional housing units, according to a source familiar with the matter. The donation of land in Yuen Long in the New Territories more than quadruples the company’s commitment of 100,000 sq ft announced this month as Hong Kong steps up efforts to ease its housing crisis, and will amount to the largest such pledge by a private landowner. Henderson Land will announce its intention during a symposium on transitional housing...

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The Beverly Hills mansion that was owned by Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt in the early 2000s had $4.5 million trimmed from its price tag Tuesday, bringing its ask down to $44.5 million. The gated Tudor-style estate has a history of celebrity ownership beyond the duo, right back to its construction in 1934 for the Academy Award-winning actor Fredric March, famed for his roles in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1931) and “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946). Spanning more than 11,000 square feet, the property is fitted with a bar room with an original fireplace that converts into a projector room, a gym, a pool, a tennis court and an outdoor living area with a...

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