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A family in Croatia have decked out their home and turned it into a spectacular light show with over 1.2 million Christmas lights.

Every year, the Salaj family celebrate Christmas by decorating their 17-acre property in the village of Grabovnica in Croatia with lights – the number of which increases each year.

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Penthouse A at the Setai South Beach Resort in Miami has become the world’s most expensive penthouse ever sold, selling for a massive $21.5 million.

Described as the ‘mack daddy’ of penthouses, it has the highest-ever selling price per square foot at $3,704.

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The world’s most expensive home is sitting unused and abandoned because its owners believe moving in will bring them bad luck.

The billion-dollar 27-storey building in Mumbai, called Antilia, is reportedly not in line with vastu shastra – a Hindu version of feng shui.

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The world’s most expensive motorhome is up for sale with a price tag of £1.9 million.

The ‘eleMMent palazzo’, produced by Austrian firm Marchi Mobiles, is 40ft long and comes complete with a pop-up roof terrace measuring 215 sq ft, underfloor heating and a bar.

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Thinking of updating your kitchen? For the price of a whole house, you can have the world’s most expensive kitchen – the Colosseo Oro – priced at a staggering £300,000.

London-based kitchen designer Marazzi Design unveiled its colossally-priced Colosseo Oro kitchen at a design trade show over the weekend in London.

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Hong Kong has the world’s most expensive luxury property market, according to a recent report compiled global real estate consultants Savills.

Out of 10 “world class” cities profiled in the report — Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo — the average £6,700 per square foot price of Hong Kong luxury homes ranked the highest in the world.

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Our friends at Gizmodo always come up with good ideas, and their list of top 7 tools to make the office suck less is no different. But we though we’d chime in with our own suggestions that may at times be less subtle, slightly braver, certainly silly and yet no less possible.

Check with your boss before buying any of these, of course. If you are the boss, we hope you have a sense of humor.

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A Swedish real estate agent has listed an unusual piece of property on the market for sale: a five-bedroom house, complete with medieval tomb and skeleton in the cellar.

The ’skeleton house’, located in central Visby on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland, was built in 1750 on the foundations of a Russian church. The kitchen lies on the presbytery, and the tomb containing the skeleton — visible through a glass panel — is in the cellar.

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Britain’s most expensive home has been sold to a Russian billionaire for a record £140 million.

The buyer of Park Place, who has not been identified, purchased the 300-year-old Grade II-listed property, in the village of Remenham, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.

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Why buy an apartment or house when you can buy an entire town?

The town of Scenic, South Dakota – once a booming ‘wild west’ town – is on the market for sale, with an asking price of $799,000.

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