Jon Anderson
Many who visit Italy are captivated by the history, architecture, geography, abundant seafood, and slower pace. My trip to Venice left me wondering why anyone would want to live there. Don’t get me wrong — it was a great four days — but the constant hive of tourists that infest Venice would make living there…
Read MoreBeing in London last week, I decided to sniff around for you. The London housing market has been a story of ever-increasing growth for quite some time. There are several reasons for this. The sustained growth and enormous bonuses of the financial sector. The growth of London as a technology hub. The ever-growing ex-pat community,…
Read MoreI’m hours away from my flight home to Dallas and figured it was time for a Hawai’ian roundup (and share some odd pictures with no meaning beyond amusement value). This year I chronicled my real estate travails in Hawaii for SecondShelters.com. It started innocently enough with an interview with the local Berkshire Hathaway Home Services…
Read MoreBack in May, I wrote about the Kaka’ako area of Honolulu and its meteoric growth into a new urban high-rise jungle. It is an area located between Waikiki and downtown Honolulu that for decades was full of warehouses and small local businesses. It also contains the Ala Moana and Ward shopping centers within its boundaries.…
Read MoreThe valet parking line stretched down the block for Honolulu-based lux furniture store C.S. Wo’s annual “Home for the Holidays” bash for its top-tier customers and designers. This year’s event marked the 16th anniversary partnership between C.S. Wo and Neiman Marcus. The event, in conjunction with Neiman’s HeART corporate charitable giving program, featured some 60…
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