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Vatican nears sale of London property at the center of sweeping scandal

Posted: 14 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PST

The Vatican is near a deal to sell a London property that sparked a spectacular scandal, ensnaring top officials and costing the Holy See millions of dollars. The Vatican is in talks with Bain Capital and CIT Group Partners to sell 60 Sloane Avenue for about 200 million pounds ($270 million), according to the Wall Street Journal. A sale at that price would be a loss of more than $100 million on the Vatican’s botched

Let it be sold: George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool heads for auction

Posted: 14 Nov 2021 08:00 AM PST

The childhood home of English music legend George Harrison is headed for the auction block. Harrison moved to the Liverpool home with his family in 1949, at the age of six, and lived there until 1962, according to the New York Post. The Beatles and their precursor, the Quarrymen, regularly rehearsed at the home in the late 1950s. The three-bedroom townhouse in suburban Speke, at 25 Upton Green, isn’t far from Liverpool’s airport — named

Hong Kong condo sells for $18K psf, most ever in Asia

Posted: 14 Nov 2021 06:00 AM PST

A condominium in Hong Kong’s wealthy Peak neighborhood sold for the equivalent of $18,072 per square foot, a condo record for that metric in Asia. The 4,544-square-foot apartment at the Mount Nicholson complex sold for HK$640 million, or about $82.2 million, according to Bloomberg. The per-square-foot price is $530 more than the record for Asia set earlier this year, when a unit at CK Asset Holding Ltd.’s 21 Borrett Road in the Midlevels neighborhood sold