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Blair House Melbourne becomes the most expensive house to sell in Victoria for $70 million: Radovan Basil Nanut

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It’s far from a humble home, but you won’t believe the tantalizing cost of this sprawling Australian estate that offers stunning decor, spectacular gardens and TEN luxurious bedrooms. The sprawling ten-bedroom estate will break state records at a million-dollar asking price Blair House is located in a 7,800 square meter block in Melbourne’s affluent suburb of Toorak This property is being marketed for the first time since the 1970s with an asking price of $65 million-$70 million This hotel features a stunning Georgian main residence, tennis courts, guest house and stunning garden The house was sold by the family of the late engineer Radovan Basil Nanut, who died in 2004 By Louise Allingham For The Australian Daily Published: 22:43 EDT, 14 July 2022 | Updated: 22:43 EDT, 14 July 2022 Advertisement The fabulous suburban estate will break real estate records for the state of Victoria with a multi-million dollar price tag.

Even Basil Fawlty would consider this hotel substandard

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One reader was unimpressed by a recent visit to the Hilton Rome Fiumicino Airport. Photo: Alamy THIS WEEK’S LETTER CRIME OF ROME I’m at my hotel waiting for my Qantas flight tomorrow morning from Rome to Sydney via Perth. It seemed like a good idea to spend the last two months in the UK and Italy sitting poolside at the airport, especially since tomorrow’s flight requires an early check-in. Why didn’t I check Tripadvisor? The check-in queue at the hotel (yes, the hotel, not the airport) took two hours. For the next 24 hours we couldn’t get internet, our television required the mini-bar to be removed to turn it on, the restaurant was so full we couldn’t be fed, room service hung up on us 20 times so we went to bed without eating and we were then locked out of our rooms because the computer didn’t notice that we were staying for two nights. This is not a two star hotel in the center of Rome but the Airport Hilton which has a monopoly on the airport. Even Basil Fawlty wo