Marilyn Liebenguth, our weekend receptionist is simply known as “Mouse.’ She informs me that is because she used to teach first grade, and a chap that she was dating at the time called all little children ‘mice’, and would ask of her ‘hey mouse, how are the mice? “, and the nickname stayed with her.. Everyone else knows her as being an extremely strong and positive presence at the Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s desk every weekend for the past 30 years! She runs the desk like a tightly run ship, and follows up on everything, is always courteous to the sellers (5 comments)
I had to share some interesting stats and how it all correlates and is relevant to Sotheby’s (I think!). Firstly, I read this morning how Qatar has just purchased Canary Wharf - which happens to be London’s Banking District (Qatar Investment Authority and U.S. investor Brookfield Property Partners (BPY) are buying Songbird Estates, which owns Canary Wharf, for 2.6 billion pounds ($4 billion) Courtesy CNN Money. I also read how real estate in London is also booming. ( The real estate boom has added $1.5 trillion to the value of British homes over the past five years and left London residential (1 comments)