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Beauty queen trades high heels for property deals - 7 August 2009

A teenage beauty queen has decided to turn her back on the lucrative, if fickle, world of modeling and acting to become an estate agent. Aayusha Karki is the reigning Miss Teen Nepal, but has decided to make the most of the booming real estate markets of Kathmandu.

The capital of Nepal is seeing land values triple in the space of six years, and the real estate speculation and shortage of space to accommodate the people arriving in the city means that prices are continuing to rise. Unlike the property booms in most Western countries, the price rises in Kathmandu are being driven by the fact that Nepalese are fleeing the increasingly lawless rural areas for the relative safety and security of the city.

It may be a change of career that an ageing beauty queen would consider when she has retired from competition, but you would be less likely to imagine someone whose star is rising to turn their back so easily on the beauty industry. However, Ms Karki said the decision was an easy one, and that the luxury apartments she is selling are flying off the shelves. She says that she has sold more than 50 off-plan apartments which will not be available for another three years.

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