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EL FASHER, Sudan // Tucked between palm trees and verdant lawns in the centre of Darfur’s El Fasher, the palace of the Sudanese region’s last sultan has become a focus of pride, 100 years after his death.
Silver swords, antique rifles, richly coloured robes and the throne from which autocrat Sultan Ali Dinar ruled Darfur’s vast expanses between 1891 and 1916 line the walls of the palace museum.
Marginalised and underdeveloped since Dinar’s fall, the we… (View original article)
By Paul Ivice, Special to Treasure Coast Newspapers
VERO BEACH — After nine years of trying, will a 62 percent price cut finally sell Palazzo di Mare this weekend?
The 5-acre oceanfront property with an opulent 24,000-square-foot Great Gatsby-style mansion was listed for $33.5 million in a failed 2007 auction.
Owner Sharon Nicholson won’t accept less than $12.9 million on Saturday for the six-bedroom, 10-bathroom home, in which its name is Italian for “Palace b… (View original article)
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The Franco American School will be closing its doors at the end of this school year. Here, Sister Lorraine Richard shows off what was once a master bedroom of the Frederick Ayer mansion, which houses the school. It used to be her bedroom when she first started at the school in the 1960s. Watch video on this story at lowellsun.com. SUN/JOHN LOVE
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“Previously buyers have been reluctant to trade out of the London market given the extent to which its value has been rising,” said Lucian Cook, head of residential research at Savills. “This is now much less of a concern. The stamp duty costs of upsizing in the capital and limits on what can be borrowed are acting as catalysts for a greater flow of wealth into the prime regional housing markets.”
Londoners accounted for 30pc of all purchases in the prime suburban and commuter market… (View original article)
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By Roger St Pierre with Hazel Kempster
Published 21/04/2016
Stapleford Park is a country house in Stapleford, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire
Stapleford Park is a country house in Stapleford, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire
Stapleford Park is a country house in Stapleford, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire
Stapleford Park is a country house in Stapleford, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire
Stapleford Park is a country house in Stapleford, n… (View original article)
A villa once owned by music legend Prince in a millionaires’ enclave near Marbella in southern Spain has yet to find a buyer after being on the market for two years.
The salmon-colored villa, overlooking the Mediterranean with its outdoor jacuzzi and two-level master bedroom suite, boasts a colonial-style double staircase with white marbled balustrades sweeping down to a chandeliered entrance hall, and carries a price tag of 5.25 million euros ($5.91 million), according to real estat… (View original article)