The price of buying a flat in major cities is too expensive for young families, yet others have profited hugely from the property market.

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If the Armani Hotel aesthetic (or price) is too over the top for you, there is the contemporary, cosmopolitan (and less expensive) 244-room Address Hotel nearby.

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At the same time, the price point of new technologies is dropping fast, allowing tools that were once considered space age and too expensive to be deployed at much lower costs, ad executives say.

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