Tal Alexander announces he will step away from his brokerage firm amid rape allegation

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I moved to China for 8 years. There were major differences in work culture to the West, but I highly recommend working in Asia.

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Sue Campbell (left) moved to Hong Kong and worked across China for eight years, mainly in Shanghai.

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An embattled oil tycoon is selling a mansion in Singapore for $32 million. It's one of the city's status-symbol houses that business leaders covet.

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A screengrab from Google Maps Street View depicting the GCB at 1 K Tanglin Hill in Singapore
A screen grab from Google Maps Street View depicting a Good Class Bungalow belonging to former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, better known as OK Lim, in Tanglin Hill, Singapore. In land-scarce Singapore, Good Class Bungalows, or GCBs, are rare and incredibly expensive.

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I'm an interior decorator. Here are 8 things I would never have in my backyard.

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As an interior decorator, there are several items I wouldn't put in my backyard.

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A 3-bed apartment in San Francisco is on the market for $488K. The catch? You can't move in for 30 years.

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An aerial view of Russian Hill in San Francisco.
An aerial view of Russian Hil, an upscale neighborhood in San Francisco.

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A New Yorker took her first solo trip to Greece at 38. She loved the slower pace of life so much that she moved there.

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Marissa Rodriguez in Greece by the ocean.
Rodriguez started her workday at 3 p.m. while traveling around the Greek islands.

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I live rent-free in NYC. Moving into a van has allowed me to save, avoid taking out loans, and live a life of adventure.

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Gerardo Rios Garcia and his van.

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Barcelona plans to ban short-term rentals, hitting the owners of 10,000 apartments

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The Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona.
The Basílica de la Sagrada Família is one of Barcelona's most famous sites.

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We gave up city life and moved to Bali. It was a lot more challenging than we expected.

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Steve Willis and Nadia Rose gave up city life in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to move to Bali, Indonesia.

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5 mind-bending buildings from Las Vegas to Dubai that never broke ground — and what stands in their place instead

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Side-by-side of a proposed NYC skyscraper and the present-day building in its place.
In the 1970s, a real-estate developer proposed a futuristic tower with a giant stock-trading floor.

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