Bill Clinton will be speaking about the threat of global terrorism and of his life in office at a seminar at the Royal Albert Hall on September 26. He will address leaders of industry and the public in what has been described in the promotional brochure as a 'lively discussion and debate' on current affairs, commerce and politics.

Tickets for Mr Clinton's speech will cost between $110 and $700 each. The venue he is speaking at seats approximately 5000.

Also on Tuesday, he will speak on global poverty and environmental issues to 500 very wealthy individuals, including the famous actor Michael Douglas and the ultra environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, who have paid $1,900 a head for the launch of Fortune Forum Summit - a nonprofit organisation aimed at influencing social changes.

On the 27th, Clinton will shoot over to Dublin and will be guest of honour at a lunch at the Burlington Hotel. Guests will pay $2000 for a pair of tickets. Tickets to Mr Clinton's events are usually bought by corporations as investments in employee morale-boosting.

The former President's money-making efforts have been so prolific it took just two years to pay off his legal debts after leaving office in 2001. A large portion of these legal debts came from his activities such as getting blown in the oval office.

Bill and his wife Hillary - a Senator for New York - own 2 very expensive houses, one in Chappaqua, New York, for Bill and one in Washington for Hillary's use. Bill's paltry $150,000-a-year pension would not cover the mortgages.

He negotiated a a $10 million advance on his memoirs - published in 2003 - and began a schedule of delivering 200 speeches a year.

Insiders say his prices varies between $200,000 and $600,000 and he keeps the cash for about a quarter of the speeches. The rest of the money goes to his Foundation, which has a budget of $40million a year raised from private donors. The rest are free, to support political causes or raise funds for other charities.

The nosedive in valuation of the US Dollar certainly isn't helping the situation, but a couple of other factors are effecting this. According to economists from Nationwide Building Society a lot of the demand for this prime real estate is coming from new rich oil money. Most of the new buyers are coming from Russia and the Middle East. That being said, currency is certainly the strongest factor at play here. If you take the current prices and go back to 2003 when the average exchange rate was USD 1.58 per one pound and plug in the latest sales numbers, New York would still be the most expensive.

Those waiting for "Bubble to Burst" in Manhattan are going to have to keep waiting. There have been 17 interest rate increases and a 15% slowdown in number of sales. Yet this has done nothing to negatively effect prices which are essentially flat with those of last year. Meanwhile in London the Froth continues to bubble. Prices in 2006 are averaging 15% higher than last year. This could be coming to an end soon as the bank of England just raised rates last week to 4.75% from 4.5%.

Another factor driving London real estate prices higher is their low unemployment rate coupled with their newly adopted open immigration policy with EU member countries. Citizens of poorer eastern european countries such as Poland can move to London with no special documentation or visas necessary. In Poland the unemployment is rampant yet in London the Unemployment continues to come in below 5%.

The flat came fully furnished and was available on either short or long term lease. (The tenant in this case opted for the longer term.) Chiswick is a nice and safe working class neighborhood. It is only about one hour on the tube to Central London.

This beauty will be available starting June 26th for a weekly rental price of 6,000 pounds. For those of you that are reading this from the United States it comes out to about $40,000 US Dollars per month. It is a 3 bedroom Penthouse with a wraparound terrace. It has 3 bathrooms, a garage and comes fully furnished.



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A beautiful quaint charming neighborhood in Southern London. You can search the database on this site to find a flat.

It is a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a garage and is in line with what you would expect from the market around Paddington. The taller buildings such as this one are mostly located to the west of Paddington Station

IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: St. Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, and historic attractions and buildings including the Tower of London, Mansion House and Old Bailey.

Lazy Afternoon in St. James Square

St. James's was once part of the same royal park as Green Park, St. James's Park and Buckingham Palace Garden. In the 1660s, Charles II gave the right to develop the area to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans, who proceeded to develop it as a predominantly aristocratic residential area with a grid of streets centred on St. James's Square.

Until the Second World War, St. James's remained one of the most exclusive residential enclaves in London. Famous residences in St. James's include St. James's Palace, Clarence House, Marlborough House, Lancaster House, Spencer House, Schomberg House and Bridgewater House. It is now a predominantly commercial area with some of the highest rents in London and, consequently, the world. Corporate offices in St. James's include the global headquarters of BP and Rio Tinto Group. The auction house Christie's is based in King Street, and the surrounding streets contain a great many upmarket art and antique dealers. St. James's is also the home of many of the best known gentlemen's clubs in London, and is sometimes, though not as often as formerly, referred to as "Clubland". The "clubs" found here are organisations of English high society. A variety of groups congregate here, such as: royals, military officers, motoring enthusiasts, and other groups. In 1990, the Carlton Club, traditional meeting place for members of the Conservative Party, was struck by an IRA bomb. See List of London's gentlemen's clubs.

Famous streets in St. James's include:

* St. James's Square, which retains many of its original houses, but mostly in office use. The London Library is located here.
* Jermyn Street, an upmarket retail street best known for fine shirts.
* Pall Mall, which contains many of London's gentlemen's clubs.
* The Haymarket, once the best known centre of prostitution in London, but no trace of this remains now. Contains two of London's most historic theatres, the Haymarket Theatre and Her Majesty's Theatre.
* Carlton House Terrace, a pair of grand terraces of houses designed by John Nash overlooking St. James's Park.
* St. James's Street which runs down from Piccadilly to St. James's Palace.

The area is well known for its arts scene. Whitechapel Gallery is located at the bottom of Brick Lane, and amongst the many well known artists living in Spitalfields are Gilbert and George, Tracey Emin, and Stuart Brisley.

Spitalfields was long associated with the silk industry, established by French Protestant (Huguenot) refugees who settled in the area after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

Southwark Cathedral

It is hard to define notional boundaries for South Kensington, but when people talk about it, they are generally talking about the commercial area around the tube station and the adjacent graceful garden squares and streets (such as Thurloe Square, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum). The smaller neighborhood around Gloucester Road tube station can also be considered part of South Kensington, as well as the institution area around Exhibition Road, which includes such famous names as the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal College of Music, although this part is officially part of the small area known as Knightsbridge. Although the postcode SW7 stands for South Kensington, some parts of Kensington also fall under this postcode. Only the area south of Cromwell Road is regarded as South Kensington.

Sandwiched between the extremely affluent centres of Knightsbridge and Chelsea, South Kensington is harder to characterise. Although a wealthy area overall, it also caters for large tourist and student populations; the former is reflected by the type of shops and eateries around South Kensington station, whilst the latter is evident by both the halls of residence for Imperial College and the large number of language schools in the area, which attract a sizeable number of foreign students.

The foreign students at both these language schools and at Imperial College, and the large numbers of tourists contribute to an international (predominantly European) atmosphere to the area. Large numbers of French, Spanish and Italian citizens live in the area. A significant French presence is evidenced by the location of the consulate, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle - a large French secondary school opposite the Natural History Museum - and the French Institute, home to a French cinema. There are also several French bookshops in the area.

The nearest Tube stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road.

Equally cool, but not to be confused with New York City's Soho. Soho London is indubitably the coolest place to rent a flat. Soho is an area of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It is roughly the area bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square to the south, and Charing Cross Road in the east. The area to the west is known as Mayfair.

Shoreditch Town Hall

From 1899 until 1965 it was the core district of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, the town hall of which can still be seen on Old Street. The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was made up of three main districts in all: Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston. The whole Metropolitan Borough was incorporated into the much larger London Borough of Hackney in 1965.

Shoreditch has become something of a moveable feast in the modern world. It is generally conflated with nearby Hoxton, leading to constructions such as 'Shoho' or 'Hoxditch'. Postwar naming decisions have not helped - for example Shoreditch Park was established, postwar, in Hoxton west of the market, while Haggerston Park occupies the site of the old Shoreditch gasworks.

Piccadilly an Epicenter Nightlife and Dining out in Central london. A lively place to let a flat if you don't mind a little noise and commotion.

Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Pickadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars. The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England, but was known as Piccadilly by 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. The circus lost its circular form in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.

The junction has been a very busy traffic interchange since construction, as it lies at the centre of Theatreland and handles exit traffic from Piccadilly, which Charles C. B. Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, described as "the great thoroughfare leading from the Haymarket and Regent-street westward to Hyde Park-corner" and "the nearest approach to the Parisian boulevard of which London can boast."

The Piccadilly Circus tube station was opened 10 March 1906 on the Bakerloo Line, and on the Piccadilly Line in December of that year. In 1928, the station was extensively rebuilt to handle an increase in traffic.

Because of its proximity to Soho, the Circus was a significant meeting point in the underground history of homosexuals in Britain, especially as a focus for prostitution and informal encounters. When Alfred Kinsey visited London to study English sexual attitudes, he immediately asked to be taken on a sexual tour of Soho. The world around Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square astounded him. Comparing London to the Hispanic sexual cultures of central America, Kinsey claimed that he had never seen so much street prostitution, except in Havana.

The intersection's first electric advertisements appeared in 1910, and from 1923 electric billboards were set up on the facade of the London Pavilion. Traffic lights were first installed in August 3, 1926 at the junction.

The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893, to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During the Second World War, the statue atop the Shaftesbury memorial fountain, The Angel of Christian Charity, was removed, and was replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned in 1948. When the circus underwent reconstruction work in the late 1980s, the entire fountain was moved from the centre of the junction at the beginning of Shaftesbury Avenue to its present position at the southwestern corner.