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If you want to buy a home, you have to make a lot of decisions: How should the property be furnished? What should it look like? And how will it be financed? The choice of location is also crucial, both for the quality of life and the price of the property, writes UBS on its website about the study it recently published on the ‘Residential Attractiveness Indicator (WAI)’.

The product design group LIXIL has launched a foldable bathtub at Designart Tokyo under the name Bathtpe. The idea is fascinating and it is probably not unusual that it originated in Japan. As is well known, rooms that can be used in different ways have a long tradition there. But the idea could also be a success here.

The online magazine Luxury Defined of Christie’s International Real Estate has asked four specialists from Christie’s International Real Estate’s global affiliate network about their segments of the vineyard real estate market: Bordeaux in France, Napa Valley in USA, Douro Valley in Portugal and Tuscany in Italy.