
18-year-old Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter film series has just paid $4.3 million for a condo in New York. The condominium in question is a glass walled, fifth floor apartment in SoHo, a bohemian New York district.
It seems unlikely the film star will actually move in, as the apartment was almost immediately offered on the rental market by Gilmore Jacobs, a firm set up by Radcliffe’s parents in 2000 to maximize his earnings – asking rent $20,000 per month. Harry Potter joins a growing list of wealthy Brits buying in to the New York luxury condo market and taking advantage of the current weak dollar.


The Dubai-based real estate investment company Istithmar World Real Estate, reported on the 26th December that it had closed on the sale of 230 Park Avenue to a American consortium which includes Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Fund and Monday Properties for the sum of $1.15 billion. This transaction follows the sale of 280 Park Avenue to Broadway Properties in November for $1.35 billion.


Datuk Ab Hakim Borhan mayor of KL has a vision: Public information like building floor plans, application for business licenses, the filing of reports of accidents, bus schedules, or data on the city’s history – all at the push of a button or swipe of a barcode.
Well, we know where we’re retiring to. Along with half the estate agents on the planet we suspect. Bahrain’s Ithmaar Bank has announced the planned development of a $1.6 billion island for the healthcare industry. Dubbed “Health Island,” development is due to start “soon”, said a bank official who refused to be named.
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