Zayn Malik is selling his New York bachelor pad for £8.8million ($10.8million), just over a year after he bought it, and seven months after his split from Gigi Hadid. The SoHo penthouse is just a few blocks away from Gigi’s apartment, where the couple were regularly spotted together while they were dating, so he may be ready for a new start further away from his ex-girlfriend.

The former One Direction star bought the four-bedroom, four-bathroom residence in March 2018 – on the same day that he and Gigi broke up for the first time. It’s easy to see what would have attracted him to the property; as well as having a prime location in Manhattan, it spans 3,600-square-foot and has 12-foot vaulted ceilings and its own private roof terrace with breath-taking city views. Take a look through the gallery to see more of Zayn’s home…

Photos from StreetEasy listing courtesy of Dallien Realty

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Jacques Garcia’s latest masterpiece is a 17th-century Sicilian monastery, luxuriously reborn as a retreat for the celebrated designer and his friends

Ask decorator Jacques Garcia why he has spent the past few decades finessing Château du Champ de Bataille, his 17th-century pleasure dome in Normandy, and refused to be seduced by other delectable old properties that would have benefited from his expert ministrations, and one receives an answer that comes from the heart.

“I am a man of one love; I cannot cheat,” says the silver-fox Parisian known for conjuring up glamorous hotel interiors, from Hôtel Costes and La Réserve in Paris to Marrakech’s La Mamounia and Manhattan’s NoMad. “When I cheat, I leave.”

Several years ago, though, Champ de Bataille had reached a certain maturity—read all about it in Twenty Years of Passion (Flammarion), a 400-page billet-doux to the monument historique that he has owned since 1992—that led the AD100 interior designer to feel that he could allow his eye to wander, to establish yet another historic foothold for him to restore and his friends to enjoy. Eventually Garcia found what he was seeking in Sicily, where he stumbled across a former monastery, also dating from the 1600s, that had gone to rack and ruin in the rolling, rocky countryside within sight of Noto, a once-sleepy, rather remote, but increasingly buzzy baroque city at the island’s southeast corner.

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The two-bedroom home is directly next door to the royal couple’s Anmer Hall estate.

A VIEW OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON’S NORFOLK HOME, ANMER HALL.

If you’ve ever dreamed of living like a royal (or at least in close proximity to one), a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has finally arrived. The home directly next door to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s is available to rent. Yes, you read that correctly.

According to the Metro, a U.K.-based news outlet, the quaint two-bedroom cottage can be yours for just £700 a month (or approximately $851), and is located steps away from the royal couple’s 10-bedroom country estate, Anmer Hall, which was a generous wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge previously spent time at Anmer Hall after Princess Charlotte was born in May 2015, and the family photo for their 2018 Christmas card was even taken at the property. Now, the Georgian mansion, which is considered part of the Sandringham Estate, is where the royal family retreats whenever they’re not at Kensington Palace in London.

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