A £1 million refit will begin next year at Princess Margaret’s former apartment after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chose it as their new family home. Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace is a lavish, four storey home complete with its own walled garden and the couple are expected to move in sometime in 2013 after the completion of the refurbishment. £1 million refurbishment...

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  Celebrity gossip and homes website RichCrib.com highlight the fact that London has fast become the home of the celebrity. The celebrity house website reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt , Carey Mulligan, Madonna, Elton John and Mick Jagger all have homes in London.   In fact the celebrity trend matches the super rich trend who are keeping prime property prices sky high .Overseas property buyers...

Paris may be the place for the new David Beckham house, according to reports from French TV and newspapers. National media outlets last month joined in with the rumours that the 36 year old footballer was looking for property in the French capital. Agents were supposedly browsing the city’s real estate, as Beckham continues his plans to move to Paris St Germain to end his footballing...

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A leading newspaper has highlighted two African locations in its new guide to the ‘top 20 cheapest places to retire’.  The Daily Telegraph has compiled a list of 20 unusual and cheap destinations for British pensioners to consider for their retirement and the list includes two African towns. Increasing numbers of people looking to leave Britain The newspaper reports...

  Brasilia, DF – A record number of foreign visitors came to Brazil in 2011, 13, 92% more than the entire previous year, and the biggest one year increase since 2003 when Embratur, the government Tourism department, took over the record keeping. The number of visitors surged from 7.9Million in 2010 to 9Million in 2011. Not surprisingly then, the Central Bank of Brazil corroborated this...

Student living has changed over the last two decades.  Historically, students had three choices when they left home to study – cramped and outdated halls of residence or shared houses.  Accommodation whilst at university was at best functional and at worst small, inconvenient and cold. As students become more and more discerning, the standard of student accommodation has had to improve. ...