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One district dominated San Francisco ’s luxury market when it came to both apartment and single- family home sales over the past year, according to a report out Monday from Paragon Real Estate Group . It’s an L-shaped stretch of four neighborhoods on the northern edge of the peninsula, including Pacific Heights , Presidio Heights , Cow Hollow and Marina. The tony area rises up on a ridge that overlooks the landmark Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island and is home to celebrities and historic mansions . More:  Check Out News from San Francisco ’s Luxury Market This area had the most single- family house sales over $3 million in the 12 months ending July 31 —a total of 77 deals at an average price per square foot of nearly $1,500, according to the report. It also dominated the city’s ultra- luxury transactions with nine sales for mansions priced over $10 million. The Pacific Heights- Presidio Heights district also led in the luxury apartment market . Over the past 12 months, there...

Johnson Chrome was a notorious big spender with a taste for bottle service , bespoke suits and $10,000 shoes. The source of his wealth? A sophisticated identity theft scheme that may have conned Torontonians out of millions. The untold story of the city’s most wanted fraudster Photographs: All portraits via Facebook; background by iStock T he fraudster who called himself Johnson Chrome liked to sit on a bench at the intersection of Hazelton and Yorkville, smoking a Montecristo Edmundo robusto and talking about fashion, cars and cigars to anyone who’d listen. He was charming and handsome, with a neatly trimmed beard , a shaved head and perfect teeth. The perch placed him at the centre of the rarefied universe he’d come to inhabit. His condo, in the former Four Seasons hotel, was steps to the west, and he parked his black Jaguar at the Hazelton Hotel opposite . His gym, the sleek Equinox, was a minute’s walk northwest; his preferred cigar shop , La Casa del Habano , was to the sout...