Haute Living is buzzing in anticipation of this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach and we’re not alone. As Miami prepares for what many believe to be the event of the season, hotels are trying to keep up with the demand after a slow and painful year of low occupancies.

A new recently launched website BillionaireXchange, allows people to trade luxurious items. For those of you familiar with eBay, this site works in a similar way, only it’s the first of its kind. This site promises to provide the richest and most affluent people with an opportunity to sell and trade items of high value with realistic potential buyers

This week we begin with two speedsters that can make any trip to the store or to the office just about as pleasurable as can be. Introducing the Bentley Continental GT Speed and the Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S.

I don’t know about you, but I love Thanksgiving. The rich autumn colors, the fantastic food, and the general sentiments that make the holiday so heart-warming. And did I mention the fantastic food? Yet somehow, the holiday I’m so thankful for seems to get sidelined between the hype of Halloween and the chaos of people planning Christmas.

Australian-born News Corporation managing director, Rupert Murdoch, is rubbing some people the wrong way with his recent declaration (and personal opinion…) that the recession is over. Wait, that’s supposed to be good news, isn’t it?

When it was confirmed that Russian billionaire, Mikhail Prokhorov did, in fact, put a hefty sum down to help fund the New Jersey Nets new stadium, real estate developers nearly fell out of their seats at the potential grab a new client.

Back in the day, when convening in the drawing room was common practice, there was a social norm that has tapered off in recent times – that of the salon. We’re not referring to a loud room with mirrors that smells perpetually of aerosol. We mean the popular seventeenth century locales that held arts exhibits and were cultural hubs for their urban surrounds.

There was an haute battle of the celebs yesterday which finally came with a pretty $29 million conclusion. Lachlan Murdoch, son of media giant Rupert Murdoch, is the proud new owner of the French government’s former consulate in an exclusive suburb of Sydney, Australia.

If you’re planning on heading to Las Vegas over the holiday season, perhaps you should consider some hard-rocking-accommodation.