September 2006 - Spear's Magazine

Julian Allason on new ways to keep the taxman’s grimy mitts away from your shapely assets

'THERE HAS BEEN a colour shift in the spectrum,’ muses the eminent banker. He is off duty and very definitely off the record. But what he is saying in code is what many asset managers already suspect: a quiet upheaval is underway, one that threatens to undo years of tax planning on the part of those resident or domiciled in European countries.

Beg Your Apartment

Got your head around quantum physics? Now try figuring out the New York real estate market, says Michael Gross

To play off a question sometimes asked by the television personality Barbara Walters, if you were a Manhattan apartment, what type of apartment would you be? Would you be a rental, a co-operative, a condominium, or a residential hotel apartment?

Domestic Bliss

You can never be too rich or too thin – or have too many houses, says Ross Clark

WERE AN ESTATE agent to conceive of a perfect client, it would be Ludwig II of Bavaria. Obliged to allow his kingdom to be subsumed into a greater Germany, he sought solace instead in acquiring homes.

Just Married! (Subject to Contract)

From pre-nup to bust-up, the business of marriage ain’t what it used to be, says Sandra Davis

Month: September 2006