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To overpay for real estate at least secures you relative value, a positive yield and a perch above Hyde Park
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Time and again residents claim that consultations are carried out in name only
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At home: Ngaire Woods
The dean of Oxford university’s first school of government talks about educating future leaders
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Beirut with the brakes on
Unrest in the Middle East has hit the Lebanese city’s building boom
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Reading area
The proximity to big employment centres, good schools and the countryside lure buyers to nearby villages
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Preservation society
The best house museums are those that illuminate something of our own lives by comparing and contrasting living conditions
©Brian Shumway
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Expat lives: park life in Brooklyn
Leigh Blake, a British activist with a passion for politics, says she finds peace in her brownstone apartment in Park Slope
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Hot property: commuter belts
From an old rectory in the UK to a renovated farmhouse in France, five attractive residences near train stations or airports
©Dan Dennison
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Feb 8, 2013
Nature’s valentines
Young artists and poets are now linking messages, love and nature in ways which romantic gardeners need to exploit
©Brian Shumway
Feb 8, 2013
At home: Diana Balmori
The designer of urban landscapes talks about striking a happier balance between modern cities and nature
Feb 8, 2013
The desert’s golden age
Tens of thousands of visitors will descend upon Palm Springs to toast its mid-century modernism
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