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The Secret to Building a $100 Million Megamansion
The Secret to Building a $100 Million Megamansion

Wall Street Journal

timea day ago

  • Business
  • Wall Street Journal

The Secret to Building a $100 Million Megamansion

As the merely wealthy take stock amid a correction in the public markets, a tariff war and concerns about an impending recession, the super rich continue to spend. Look no further than the ultra high-end real-estate market for evidence of this alternate financial reality. Billionaires are still paying tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for well-located sites in markets like Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach and Aspen, Colo.

Two Increasingly Important Groups Are Flocking to Private Credit
Two Increasingly Important Groups Are Flocking to Private Credit

Bloomberg

time2 days ago

  • Business
  • Bloomberg

Two Increasingly Important Groups Are Flocking to Private Credit

Welcome to Going Private, Bloomberg's twice-weekly newsletter about private markets and the forces moving capital away from the public eye. Today, we look at the motley crew that's flocking to private credit and a 'creative' new Ebitda adjustment. Plus the cash burn at a prominent AI firm. If you're not already on our list, sign up here. Have feedback? Email us at goingprivate@ — Silas Brown Private credit's fan base is growing. This week, Bloomberg wrote about two increasingly important groups — insurers and the super-rich.

The saviour of Cap Ferret wages war with the sea — and developers
The saviour of Cap Ferret wages war with the sea — and developers

Times

time13-06-2025

  • Times

The saviour of Cap Ferret wages war with the sea — and developers

A dmirers view Benoît Bartherotte as a hero who has fought against the vicissitudes of nature and the avarice of humanity to preserve one of the finest beauty spots in France. Detractors see him as a self-serving landowner who has helped to turn Cap Ferret, a headland on the Atlantic coast, into an enclave for the super-rich. In the mid-1980s, Bartherotte, then a celebrated Parisian fashion designer, decided to change career. He got rid of his Rolls-Royce, moved out of his mansion and took his wife and seven children to live in a wooden hut by the sea in the southwest of the country. Bartherotte's new home was on Cap Ferret, where he had spent his childhood holidays. Over the past 40 years he has fought to ensure the area remains as he remembered it as a boy.

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