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A history of the private residence

Country by country: who could buy, who built, and the law that decided both.

Each essay is written from the register's own records, and each is also a method. A country cannot be described without a list of its projects, its builders and its rules — and assembling that list exposes every gap in the register's coverage at once. The Mauritius essay began with one record, the wrong one, and ended with three more, five firms and the statute that explains them all.

EssayMauritiusThe island where a statute made the market→
In preparationSwitzerland
In preparationCosta Smeralda
In preparationCôte d'Azur and Monaco
In preparationHong Kong
In preparationMainland China
In preparationDubai
In preparationThe Red Sea
In preparationUnited Kingdom — the London estates and the county belt
In preparationUnited States — Hamptons, Palm Beach, Malibu, Hawaii
In preparationMaldives
In preparationMexico