Exclusive | Merry XLmas from your broker! Rich house hunters are now being baited by over-the-top closing gifts like a $3.2M Aston Martin and a 31-foot yacht

Exclusive | Merry XLmas from your broker! Rich house hunters are now being baited by over-the-top closing gifts like a .2M Aston Martin and a 31-foot yacht

Champagne and fruit baskets are for suckers. Well-heeled buyers on the hunt for big-ticket homes expect more — and luxury brokers are sating them with increasingly personal, unique and often mind-bogglingly extravagant closing gifts. A survey of the agents of one the nation’s top brokerages — one that asked to remain anonymous for this story…

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Travis Kelce Reveals Deliciously Sweet Gift for Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce Reveals Deliciously Sweet Gift for Taylor Swift

However, she’s not only baking these treats for herself and Travis. In fact, she admitted she’s learning to create a special loaf for Jason and wife Kylie Kelce’s daughters Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 4, Bennett, 2, and Finnley, 4 months. “I’ve been workshopping for the girls because they love everything rainbow: Funfetti sourdough,” she revealed. “They…

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The Most Ambitious Hotels to Open Around the World in 2025

The Most Ambitious Hotels to Open Around the World in 2025

The travel industry has a problem with words. Walk through any luxury hotel conference, and you’ll hear the same ones lobbed around like currency: “authentic,” “experiential,” “transformative.” Marketing teams deploy them with the confidence of people who’ve never actually stayed anywhere transformative. The couples booking their anniversary trips debate them endlessly—she wants “authentic,” he wants…

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The Year in Museums: A Relatively Bleak 12 Months With a Few Bright Spots

The Year in Museums: A Relatively Bleak 12 Months With a Few Bright Spots

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., ceased operations and canceled all programs during this year’s lengthy government shutdown. Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images Since his inauguration (and even before), President Donald Trump has been at the center of nearly every political, social, constitutional, cultural and economic debate, roiling farmers,…

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