Coronavirus pandemic sparks house-hunting frenzy in Greece among foreigners
Greece has come through the coronavirus pandemic relatively unscathed. Athens now hopes to welcome back vacationers, but increasingly foreigners are looking to pick up a home or investment property under the sun. The COVID-19 pandemic may have dealt Greece’s tourism a devastating blow, but it is proving to be a boon for many European home hunters, […]
Mussolini’s Old Villa on Rhodes Still on Real Estate Market
The Hellenic Republic Assets Development Fund (HRADF), responsible for raising money from state property sales to reduce debt, placed the abandoned Villa de Vecchi on the Greek island of Rhodes, which had been the holiday home of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, on the market in 2014. And amazingly, it is still on the market today. More […]
Athens Area Poised to Get First Skyscrapers at Hellinikon
After breaking ground Friday, signaling the beginning of work for the Hellinikon Project – the largest development and investment project in Greek history – the construction of the very first skyscrapers in Athens is set to begin. The project, on the site of Athens’ former international airport, undertaken by Lamda Development, will turn the 620-hectare (1,500-acre) […]
The Future of Travel How the industry will change after the pandemic.
How the industry will change after the pandemic. By every measure, the coronavirus pandemic has decimated the travel industry. The images of the world’s shutdown are eerie, the numbers are staggering. Approximately 100 million travel sector jobs, according to one global estimate, have been eliminated or will be. Passenger traffic on U.S. airlines is down […]
Top 5 Tips for Managing the COVID-19 Crises for the Real Estate Industry
The Coronavirus and the ensuing international health, impacted the resort real estate industry in an unprecedented way. It is a time of uncertainty but I have learned from over a decade of experience in dealing with one of the world’s most complex mixed-use projects in the Caribbean, there are answers and guiding principles which enable […]
How Swimming Pools Evolved into a Modern Status Symbol
Few architectural typologies have the power to invoke a sense of being dual-natured quite like the modernist swimming pool can. The design of pools themselves implies that there are moments of activity both above and below the water. Above, and in the more obvious and visible sense, pools act as a space for leisure and […]