It’s a day for expert collaboration on Shelter Offshore – and we love teaming up with specialists in their sector to provide you, our readers with pertinent, experienced and valuable advice. Now it’s the turn of Alison Harris, bilingual project manager and consultant specialising in the management of real estate related projects in her beloved Italy. She has put together a handful of expert tips for successfully buying and renovating your dream home in Italy.
Alison, a former lawyer, is now a full time consultant, assisting buyers from all nations and with all types of budget buy, restore, renovate or build their dream homes in Italy. She has faced many a challenge on behalf of her client, and plenty more as a direct result of her client going against her advice! Therefore she is best placed to tell you how to and now not to approach your Italian property purchase.
If you’re dreaming of living la dolce vita, you want to retire to Italy or just buy a home and make it your own, this report contains some very relevant and useful information and advice for you.
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In case you weren’t in Dubai last month and you missed Emaar Properties’ announcement that their ‘obelisk’ Burj Khalifa, (the tallest building in the world), has reached completion, we thought we’d tell you all about the party that they threw in celebration! But is Dubai back from the brink with the launch of this tower? Well, one thing is certain, Dubai certainly isn’t going down without a fight!
The completion of the main structure of Burj Khalifa was made public amidst revelling crowds and majestic displays of lasers, fireworks and fountains – as we have all come to expect in Dubai! And the final certified height of the building – which had been withheld until the day of the ceremony – was declared to be 828 metres, (2,716.5 feet). This figure was flashed on to a huge screen projected to an awaiting crowd of about 400,000 people; and the secretive height was revealed in arithmetic progression as the pyrotechnic display left the crowd in awe. Pretty spectacular stuff!
So, we can now officially state that tower is the world’s tallest structure, a claim that is backed up by the CTBUH – the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. And Emaar Properties certainly threw one almighty party in celebration. But does this change the property market’s landscape in the emirate, or was it just one almighty smokescreen to deflect attention from the continued economic downturn in Dubai?
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