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Daily Telegraph
01-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Gavin Rubinstein knocks back $6.5m offer on Cohen pad
TRG founder Gavin Rubinstein has taken on the job of selling his former Luxe Listings co-star Simon Cohen's Potts Point flat and he's already knocked back an offer. 'We've had an offer of $6.5m which I've rejected,' says Rubinstein, close mate of Australia's best known buyer's agent who has orchestrated many of the biggest deals in the country of late. It would be fun to be in the same room as the pair as they discuss the offers as they come in, as they often clashed in the hit reality TV show of a few years back. The two-level three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment with double parking and Harbour Bridge and Opera House views in the renowned Ikon block in Macleay St, Potts Point first hit the market at the start of spring last year via a different agency. It has 180sqm of internal space — 300sqm including the courtyard. MORE: Why old house doubled in value in two years Rubinstein's keeping mum on the price expectations, nine months later. The $6.5m offer clearly wasn't enough, but Cohen's probably dropped his initial hopes and dreams. Whoever buys it will be buying well. There's no doubt this is a ripper apartment in one of Sydney's best-built blocks by the country's most respected developer, Mirvac. Another of Australia's big real estate names, John McGrath, recently paid a suburb record price for an apartment built by the same crew. That's no accident. And the market's set to fire up post election, experts believe, so it could be prime time to snap this dream pad up. Cohen bought it for $5,125,000 in 2021 but then did a $1.85m reno over two years. At the time it listed last spring, it was said he 'went overboard', gutting the entire apartment, adding new electrics, new ceilings and new cornices. Cohen's created a 'world class sanctuary of unparalleled appeal', as you might expect. And given that his focus has now turned to the 'relaxed' renovation of his $12.5m Paddington mansion, the Potts Point pad is unlikely to be on the market for much longer.
News.com.au
01-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Gavin Rubinstein knocks back $6.5m offer on Cohen pad
TRG founder Gavin Rubinstein has taken on the job of selling his former Luxe Listings co-star Simon Cohen's Potts Point flat and he's already knocked back an offer. 'We've had an offer of $6.5m which I've rejected,' says Rubinstein, close mate of Australia's best known buyer's agent who has orchestrated many of the biggest deals in the country of late. It would be fun to be in the same room as the pair as they discuss the offers as they come in, as they often clashed in the hit reality TV show of a few years back. The two-level three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment with double parking and Harbour Bridge and Opera House views in the renowned Ikon block in Macleay St, Potts Point first hit the market at the start of spring last year via a different agency. It has 180sqm of internal space — 300sqm including the courtyard. Why old house doubled in value in two years Rubinstein's keeping mum on the price expectations, nine months later. The $6.5m offer clearly wasn't enough, but Cohen's probably dropped his initial hopes and dreams. Whoever buys it will be buying well. There's no doubt this is a ripper apartment in one of Sydney's best-built blocks by the country's most respected developer, Mirvac. Another of Australia's big real estate names, John McGrath, recently paid a suburb record price for an apartment built by the same crew. That's no accident. And the market's set to fire up post election, experts believe, so it could be prime time to snap this dream pad up. Cohen bought it for $5,125,000 in 2021 but then did a $1.85m reno over two years. At the time it listed last spring, it was said he 'went overboard', gutting the entire apartment, adding new electrics, new ceilings and new cornices. Cohen's created a 'world class sanctuary of unparalleled appeal', as you might expect. And given that his focus has now turned to the 'relaxed' renovation of his $12.5m Paddington mansion, the Potts Point pad is unlikely to be on the market for much longer.
Muscat Daily
28-04-2025
- Automotive
- Muscat Daily
Lulu Dream Drive 2025 concludes, prizes handed over to winners
Muscat – Lulu Hypermarket Oman concluded its biggest annual promotion of the year, Dream Drive 2025, with a grand prize distribution ceremony at the Boushar outlet. The final draw held on April 24, 2025 marked the end of the two month long promotion, which was held to coincide with Ramadan and Eid celebrations. Saud Sulaiman Al Wahaibi, Salim Al Shibli, Fakeera Musthaheel, Rizwan Inamdar, Rajkumar Kokkula, Muna, Younis Mubarak, Divyesh Parandy were the proud winners of the Nissan Pathfinder cars. Forty other winners also took home exciting gifts from Ikon. The prizes were distributed to the winners by the management of Lulu Oman and the Nissan team in the presence of a huge gathering of shoppers, well-wishers and media personnel, as well as officials and staff of LuLu Hypermarket Oman. The Dream Drive campaign, which was held across all outlets of Lulu in the Sultanate, gave shoppers a chance to win eight Nissan Pathfinder-S 4WD as grand prizes and 40 other gifts from Ikon, including smart TVs, cooking ranges, refrigerators, washers and air fryers. Customers purchasing for a minimum value of RO 10 at any LuLu Hypermarket in Oman during the promotional period were entitled to register themselves to be part of e-raffle draws held during the entire period. Eight electronic draws were held every week on different dates during the promotion period and eight grand winners were selected. Expressing his joy over the success of the promotion, Shabeer K. A., Director – Oman of Lulu Group International, stated, 'We are happy to see the overwhelming response from our customers for this year's Dream Drive promotion too. We would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who participated in this promotion. It is amazing to witness the excitement of not only the winners but also the huge crowd gathered here to share these joyous moments with the winners.' 'This promotion serves as an appreciation and recognition towards Lulu's loyal customers. All our promotions are intended to reward our valued customers for their support and loyalty every time they visit us and also to add more excitement to their overall shopping experience', he added. Lulu is constantly dedicated to delivering exceptional value and service to all its customers, and all its promotions and campaigns reflect the company's commitment to customer satisfaction.
Times of Oman
28-04-2025
- Automotive
- Times of Oman
Lulu Dream Drive 2025 concludes, prizes handed over to winners
MUSCAT: Lulu Hypermarket Oman concluded its biggest annual promotion of the year, Dream Drive 2025, with a grand prize distribution ceremony at the Boushar outlet. The final draw held on 24th April 2025 marked the end of the two month long promotion, which was held to coincide with Ramadan and Eid celebrations. Saud Sulaiman Al Wahaibi, Salim Al Shibli, Fakeera Musthaheel, Rizwan Inamdar, Rajkumar Kokkula, Muna, Younis Mubarak, Divyesh Parandy were the proud winners of the Nissan Pathfinder cars. Forty other winners also took home exciting gifts from Ikon. The prizes were distributed to the winners by the management of Lulu Oman and the Nissan team in the presence of a huge gathering of shoppers, well-wishers and media personnel, as well as officials and staff of LuLu Hypermarket Oman. The Dream Drive campaign, which was held across all outlets of Lulu in the Sultanate, gave shoppers a chance to win eight Nissan Pathfinder-S 4WD as grand prizes and 40 other gifts from Ikon, including smart TVs, cooking ranges, refrigerators, washers and air fryers. Customers purchasing for a minimum value of RO 10 at any LuLu Hypermarket in Oman during the promotional period were entitled to register themselves to be part of e-raffle draws held during the entire period. Eight electronic draws were held every week on different dates during the promotion period and eight grand winners were selected. Expressing his joy over the success of the promotion, Shabeer K. A., Director - Oman of Lulu Group International, stated, 'We are happy to see the overwhelming response from our customers for this year's Dream Drive promotion too. We would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who participated in this promotion. It is amazing to witness the excitement of not only the winners but also the huge crowd gathered here to share these joyous moments with the winners.' 'This promotion serves as an appreciation and recognition towards Lulu's loyal customers. All our promotions are intended to reward our valued customers for their support and loyalty every time they visit us and also to add more excitement to their overall shopping experience', he added. Lulu is constantly dedicated to delivering exceptional value and service to all its customers, and all its promotions and campaigns reflect the company's commitment to customer satisfaction.
New Statesman
23-04-2025
- General
- New Statesman
Thought experiment 10: The Trolley Problem
Illustration by Marie Montocchio / Ikon Images Philippa Foot set the trains, or trolleys, in motion. In 1967, Foot, a well-to-do Englishwoman, the granddaughter of the former US president Grover Cleveland, published an article about abortion. Foot was then Oxford-based and this was the year that abortion was legalised in the UK. Among the questions that interested Foot was whether it might be right, or at least acceptable, to take the life of the foetus as a side effect of a medical procedure that was required to save the mother. A variation of Foot's trolley case runs as follows. A train is hurtling down a track, its brakes having failed. Five people are tied with ropes to the track ahead. They will die if hit by the train. You are standing by the side of the track and could pull a lever diverting the train down a spur. The decision would be easy were it not for the fact that one person is tied on this spur. Although Foot's explanation is contentious, most people agree with her that it would be right to pull the lever. In 1987 an American, Judith Jarvis Thomson (whom we've met in this column before – see Thought Experiment 2: The Unconscious Violinist) entered the debate with a variation: Footbridge. Once again, the out-of-control train is hurtling towards five innocents. This time you're on a footbridge next to a fat man (to appease modern sensibilities, now portrayed as a man carrying a heavy backpack). If you push the man over the bridge to his death, his weight will stop the train. The puzzle is this: in both cases it looks like the option is to kill one to save five, but in Footbridge, most people believe it would be wrong to topple a man to his death. Why the difference? This is the Trolley Problem, or what Thomson called 'a lovely, nasty difficulty'. It has sparked a mini-industry ('trolley-ology') of academic papers about runaway trains; in some of them, the scenario is so ludicrously convoluted that it is hard to see why we should give credence to any intuitions they elicit. But the problem has proved not merely to be of interest to philosophers. Psychologists and neuroscientists have jumped on the tram-wagon; so too have political scientists and sociologists. Here are the sorts of things that have been studied. Does it make a difference if you're forced to wait a few seconds before responding to trolley scenarios, or if the scenarios are presented in your second language? What happens if those who'll be killed are in your 'out-group'? Suppose you could push one chimpanzee over the footbridge to save five chimpanzees – in other words, is it more acceptable to apply a crude utilitarian calculation to animals than humans? My favourite study varied the name of the Fat Man. He was called Tyrone Paton (a stereotypical African American name) to one set of subjects and Chip Ellsworth III (a name redolent of old white money) in another. Pushing Tyrone would save 100 members of the New York Philharmonic. Pushing Chip would save 100 members of the Harlem Jazz Orchestra. Conservatives, the study claimed, were indifferent between these choices, but liberals (presumably keen to demonstrate their anti-racist credentials) were more likely to push poor old Chip. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Unusually for a philosophical thought experiment, the Trolley Problem has escaped the confines of the ivory tower, becoming a meme on social media, even turning up in TV programmes, such as The Good Place. My own view is that the Trolley Problem has a solution – or at least an explanation. The reason it's acceptable to turn the train down the spur is that you don't intend the death of the person tied there. If this person were to escape from the ropes, and flee in time, you'd be delighted. Then nobody would die. But you need the death of Backpack Man – for if he were somehow to bounce off the track and run away, the train would trundle on and kill the five. There are implications here for many areas of life, including the conduct of warfare. There's an important moral distinction between 'intending' to kill civilians and a legitimate military operation in which it's foreseen that some civilians will die. For many years now, the Trolley Problem has been taught to future officers training at the US military academy West Point. There are potential implications too for autonomous vehicles. A driverless car might be unable to break in time from an accident immediately ahead of it, and face a 'choice' to plough on or to veer to one side. Perhaps on the left there are two children, and on the right three adults. How should the car be programmed to respond? Still, trolley-ology, one of the most famous thought experiments, has been so exhaustively analysed one detects a sense of exasperation within the profession whenever the topic is wheeled on. The out-of-control train may finally be running out of steam. David Edmonds is the author of 'Would You Kill the Fat Man?'. [See also: Thought experiment 9: Mary's Room] Related
