Today’s news is going to send you scurrying for your cheque book. George Clooney just put his Lake Como estate in Italy on the market for €100 million - very quiet, no advertising, no press, which is why I know about it. He got the pile from the Heinz family in 2002 for US$10 million, but he’s bugged by the discomfort his presence inflicts on the wealthy enclave, so he and Amal are heading out. I know the feeling. It was a big factor in our sale of Bellevue House earlier this year, too many fans lurking about the perimeter, asking impertinent questions of the guards, wondering if their Kalashnikovs were loaded. George is rolling in casholine, by the way. He recently sold his Casamigos tequila brand for a reported US$1 billion, so he and the Mrs won’t be looking for a fixer-upper. I, too, have extensive experience in real estate, mostly by indirection and force majeure. Here’s what I mean.
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