Interview: Victoria Garrett discusses London’s place on the world stage, Dubai’s next phase, the impact of tax & geopolitics, and how developers are catering to an increasingly discerning clientele.
‘Buyers today have more choice than ever before’: Savills global resi chief on the battle for international wealth
Interview: Victoria Garrett discusses London’s place on the world stage, Dubai’s next phase, the impact of tax & geopolitics, and how developers are catering to an increasingly discerning clientele.
Super-prime broker Fatemi reports £700mn deal run
£100mn-plus sale among standout transactions as UK Sotheby's exec flags changing UHNW property tastes.
In Pictures: Inside Christian Bense’s new Park Hyatt show homes
South African designer kicks off series of interiors collaborations at new high-rise addition to London’s luxury branded resi scene.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with The Buying Solution’s Philip Eastwood
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Knight Frank ‘transforms market standing’ in French Alps
Top-flight agency continues international expansion programme.
Knight Frank appoints new Head of Resi in the UAE
Former Strutt & Parker Director and Betterhomes boss joins as Partner.
Savills adds senior names in Salisbury & Truro
Camilla Elwell & Harriette Thompson step up.
Former Bidwells & LandTech execs launch AI advisory firm
The new proptech venture wants real estate business to 'make good AI decisions and only build the AI they’ll actually use.'
West End resi opps to go under the hammer
Allsop and Savills unveil autumn catalogues, with Savills lining up its biggest September sale on record.
Brokerage tops 100 agents with heavyweight west London signing
John D Wood alumnus Rollo Miles joins upper-end self-employed platform.
Industry Panel: How 15 prime resi leaders would redesign England’s property tax system
Exclusive PrimeResi survey finds most respondents favour shifting the tax burden away from transactions and towards property ownership - but opinion is split over abolishing SDLT altogether.
London’s property bubble has well and truly deflated, says UBS
UK capital sinks into low-risk territory a decade after topping global property danger list.
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[This] new partnership is part of Knight Frank’s wider international expansion programme across Europe, the US and the Caribbean.
Foxtons snaps up batch of regional agencies; plots more acquisitions
London-centric Plc pushes further into regional markets with four lettings-focused purchases.
Historic Yorkshire estate hits open market at £25k per month
Agency says it’s one of the first times a country estate of this calibre has been marketed in this way.
How super-prime apartments played a key role in London’s £1bn Peninsula
HSH’s accounts reveal just how important the luxury resi element became to the landmark Hyde Park Corner project.
£33k-a-week Mayfair mansion leads run of blockbuster London rental deals
Mount Street and One Hyde Park mega-lets mark five-year highs as capital's luxury rental supply shrinks.
The £100k Mistake: A top buying agent on what prime property buyers need to know about AI
The real value of a good advisor is in judgement & knowledge of things beyond data, says Property Vision's Rob Fanshawe.
Strutt & Parker broker ranks hit double figures
Seasoned St John’s Wood agent becomes tenth member of recently launched brokerage division as heritage firm targets further Prime London expansion.
‘There are quiet Augusts and then there are quiet Augusts’: Prime London sales hit 18-year low
Latest LonRes numbers point to a particularly slow summer for prime London - but there are signs of life at the top end.
The New Scarcity: Liam Bailey on the evolution of luxury & what today’s HNW property buyers really value
The ingredients that once signalled luxury are becoming the easiest to copy, says Knight Frank; what increasingly commands a premium are the things that can’t be replicated...
Editor's Choice
Fresh data and charts reveal differing fortunes across the capital’s luxury property heartlands - and offer some pointers as to what happens next.
International property news
British-founded agency claims top spot for Dubai resales
Firm picks up DLD accolade little more than five years after launching with a team of eight.
Bugatti badges $650mn Miami resi tower
Hypercar marque makes its first move into the US resi market with 183-home waterfront scheme.
Forbes adds 70-year-old Rome agency to luxury property network
70-year-old Rivolta takes exclusive territory as group expands its reach across the world's prime property capitals.
London super-prime sales haul jumps 72% despite global slowdown
Knight Frank tracked a 'flurry of remarkable sales' in London during Q2, but US$10mn+ transaction volumes dipped slightly.
$200mn-backed property platform buys luxury Dubai brokerage
Former Foxtons agent’s firm acquired ahead of launch of new international high-end brand.
Profiles & Interviews
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Hamptons’ Canan Wood
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Knight Frank’s Andrew Groocock
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Natalie Malka
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
‘The best projects have a soul before they have a spreadsheet’: In conversation with YOO Group founder John Hitchcox
The property entrepreneur who helped pioneer loft living and branded residences talks London’s overlooked hotspots, buyer trends, the next big shift in the sector - and the best investment he ever made.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Residence One’s Ben Wilson
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Interiors & Design
‘New strategy’ drawn up for 15,000 sq ft Belgravia trophy
Three-building spread could be transformed into one of PCL’s most valuable private residences.
Set in Stonework: Behind the scenes at the restoration & extension of Lutyens’ first major house
How specialist teams treated the spectacular Chinthurst Hill to a 21st-century upgrade.
London headquartered architecture firm lands major Singapore masterplanning project
Singapore Land Group's Marina Square will include a 49-storey residential tower alongside reworkings of three 'tropical modernist' hotel buildings.
In Pictures: Inside Oliver Burns Studio’s £21.25mn show apartment at The Bryanston
3,872 sq ft turnkey residence is the latest designer collaboration at Almacantar’s 54-unit super-prime scheme overlooking Hyde Park.
Foster + Partners puts ‘robot swarms’ to work on buildings
Autonomous construction project teams bots and drones with adaptable structures designed to be dismantled and reused - with ‘wide-reaching' potential.
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