Archive for the 'Properties' Category

New York is packed with fascinating corners but few are more unique and quirkily charming than über-fashionable TriBeCa.

Gaining its name from a description of its location in Lower Manhattan (the Triangle Below Canal Street), this bustling area is bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Courtlandt Alley, Broadway and Chambers Street and was New York’s first residential neighbourhood, with suitable homes being constructed as early as the late 1700s. By the mid 1800s the tone of the area had changed completely and large numbers of store and loft buildings dominated.

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The fifth edition of Villae International, the elegant publication of the European Real Estate Network (EREN) is out now. With stylish design and quality editorial that reflects the nature of the EREN organisation itself, Villae offers an appealing focus on the good things in life that invites you to sit back and enjoy its beautifully laid out pages and engaging prose.

The current edition, as ever, features luxury properties from the most idyllic of spots, news on EREN initiatives and the successful annual conference held in Estoril, Portugal. Villae, however, also contains such non-vocational features as culture, fine dining, travel, motoring and similar pursuits of pleasure and refinement.

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Success stories from 2009

Though the current period can generally be described as a recession that has touched most of us in some way or another, we are happy to report that it’s not all doom and gloom. For EREN and its members 2009 contained some notable highlights that marked a distinct improvement over 2008 and the early beginnings of a recovery…

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Ask most people for their definition of their ideal property and there’s a very good chance that the description will include a swimming pool. Given the vast amounts of money wasted every year on gym membership that is never adequately utilised, a swimming pool can be seen as something more than a sybaritic indulgence.

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Rhode Island, long established as the home of some of the finest real estate in the world, seems to be in the vanguard of the revival of the luxury property market. Its otherwise buoyant market dropped off in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis of late 2008, but the early signs point to 2010 as the year in which this region regained its dynamism.

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Critics looking for evidence of how art changed in the latter half of the twentieth century could do little better than consider the name that Andy Warhol chose for his studio.

The Factory was originally based at 231 East 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan on the fifth floor, a sprawling space that became the meeting place for a dissolute posse of artistes manqué ranging from Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed and John Cale to future Warhol Superstars Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling. This relentlessly social aspect was common to all of Warhol’s workspaces: while the artist busied himself with his endless stream of silk-screened images, the Factory hangers-on would entertain themselves with a variety of dubious activities.

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José Ribes Bas was recently interviewed by the prestigious international property magazine OPP after it learned of Rimontgó’s enviable end-of-year sales. This English language publication enjoys worldwide distribution and has developed a reputation as providing an incisive and intelligent picture of the international real estate market.

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