You can’t afford a two-bedroom in San Jose, but a 15-room French castle? That’s within reach if you’re brave, broke, and a little deranged.

The only thing cheaper than a €1 home in Italy is the due diligence investors pretend they did before buying it.

A pension CIO once told me their ‘impact mandate’ included buying a warehouse full of used IKEA furniture. That fund did 11% IRR — outperforming their urban office exposure by 300 bps.

Dubai has a ski slope in the desert and Tokyo has toilets that open with a bow. One's for flexing, the other's for functioning. But which one will actually win the next wave of global capital?

$300K gets you 18 bedrooms, tax perks, and an existential renovation crisis. Or, y'know, a closet in Manhattan.