19th January 2011
For almost a decade, Alexander Kraft has been working with Sotheby's, re-establishing the vaunted auction house's European real estate division in 1999. Kraft discusses what makes Sotheby's such a stable luxury brand, and what sets it apart from the rest ...
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01st December 2010
For any Yankee who dreams of owning his own King Arthur's court, Italian businessmen Max Aldobrandi and Giovanni d'Andrea have a jewel for sale: a 12th-century Gothic castle overlooking the fragrant groves of Peruggia, Italy. The Templar Castle has everyt...
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01st December 2010
Open houses are a sight seldom seen in France. A few have tried to institute this walk-in method of property promotion, but so far, the market has not accepted the practice. The idea of having a slew of strangers stomping through their domiciles is not so...
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04th October 2010
At Germany's reputedly oldest shoe shop, a salesman expertly sizes a pair of handmade brogues for Alexander Kraft, European regional manager of Sotheby's International Realty.
On the small, luxurious premises of Eduard Meier, the service is as smooth a...
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19th July 2009
According to the popular saying, your home is your castle wherever you live. But there are some crucial differences.
Your studio apartment doesn't have its own drawbridge, turrets or a moat, for example. And in the event of a robot revolt or zombie at...
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01st May 2009
The UK's Grosvenor family, currently headed by the 6th Duke of Westminster, dates back to the Middle Ages. But it owes its first title to Richard Grosvenor - an Oxford graduate and member of Parliament from Cheshire who was knighted in 1617 and made a bar...
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15th April 2009
Real estate has always been a business full of powerful personalities. But can one person ¬create - or recreate - an entire luxury property market? Looking at the cases of Marbella, Belgravia, Bel Air and Monaco, it would seem so.
Marbella and Princ...
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