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France Freezes 31 Luxury Properties Owned By Eight Sanctioned Russian Billionaires
Roman Abramovich’s Château de la Croë in Antibes, France. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images The frozen properties, worth nearly $1 billion, include Roman Abramovich’s château on the French Riviera and his estate in St. Barts. On Wednesday, French authorities published a list of 41 properties owned by sanctioned Russian individuals that had been frozen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, worth nearly $620 million. Forbes found that 31 of those properties are owned by eight sanctioned Russian billionaires, including Roman Abramovich’s $250 million Château de la Croë in Antibes on the French Riviera and his $90 million estate on the luxe Caribbean island of St. Barts. Forbes estimates the 31 billionaire-owned properties…
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Segmentation by Product (lumber and landscape management, decor and indoor garden, kitchen, painting and wallpaper, and others), Distribution channel (offline and online), and Geography (Germany, France, the UK, Italy, and the Rest of Europe)–Forecast till 2025|Technavio
Parent Market Analysis Technavio categorizes the global Do-it-Yourself Home Improvement Retailing Market in Europe as a part of the global household durables market within the global consumer discretionary market. Technavio uses the total revenue generated by manufacturers to estimate the global Do-it-Yourself Home Improvement Retailing Market size in Europe. External factors influencing the parent market’s growth potential in the coming years have been thoroughly investigated in our research analysis. To know more about the levels of growth of the Do-it-Yourself Home Improvement Retailing Market in Europe throughout the forecast period, Download a free sample. Vendor Insights The Do-it-Yourself Home Improvement Retailing Market in Europe is fragmented, and the vendors are deploying…
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House Hunting in France: A Diamond in the Rough Near the Basque Coast
A Nine-Bedroom Villa in Southwest France $5.6 MILLION (4.95 MILLION EUROS) This nine-bedroom, Neo-Basque-style villa sits on a grassy 1.85-acre lot in Winter Park, a quiet residential district outside of downtown Biarritz, the resort town on France’s Basque coast, near the border with Spain. Built in 1920, the 6,458-square-foot house was last renovated in the late 1990s, and has been unoccupied for five years. “You have to do some renovation work,” said Philippe Thomine-Desmazures, associate director of Barnes International Realty, Côte Basque, which has the listing. A gravel driveway leads to the covered front portico. The entry hall has a checkerboard tile floor and a powder room. Double wood doors…
