Monaco is still the most expensive prime real estate market in the world
The average price paid dipped by 1.3% last year, says Savills, but a square metre in Monaco still costs €48,150.
Leading RE looks to expand across EMEA
Global real estate network hires new business development director to help boost growth in eastern European countries.
CBRE assembles stellar line-up for new Private Office
Firm brings together four Savills alumni – including one of PCL’s best-known agents, Charles Lloyd, and acquisition specialist Marcus Bradbury-Ross – to offer ‘bespoke and confidential advice to private clients on residential property across the globe’
Post-lockdown surge in property demand likely to be ‘short-lived’, warns Zoopla
“Active engagement” with property listings has jumped to exceed pre-lockdown levels by some 20%, reports Zoopla – but more than four in ten would-be buyers say they have put moving plans on hold…
The Buying Solution recruits Strutt & Parker man for Southern Counties searches
Jake Civardi has joined Knight Frank’s buying agency arm as a Partner, to handle property searches in Hampshire, West Berkshire, Wiltshire and into the West Country.
Deal sealed on £10.8m country-style pile in St John’s Wood
Notable sale recorded on Elm Tree Road in NW8 as the high-end market emerges from lockdown; local agency Ian Green Residential reports a ‘marked increase’ in big-budget enquiries over the last two weeks
Virtual Reality: The final frontier…for now
Boutique agency owner Simon Rose recently bit the bullet and made a big investment in VR software to enhance the experience for his potential buyers – but has it paid off?
Charles Dickens’ clifftop retreat offered for sale as a restoration project
Bleak House, overlooking Viking Bay in Kent, is being pitched as “the perfect canvas for an ambitious renovation project”.
Listen: KF’s Victoria Garrett on a high-flying globetrotting career in prime resi
Knight Frank’s Head of Residential in the Asia Pacific region, Victoria Garrett, talks through her career from London to Dubai to Singapore, revealing how her teams across Asia have adapted during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Recognition at last for Chermayeff’s revered Bentley Wood
Described as ‘a regular Rolls-Royce of a house’ when it was built in 1938, Serge Chermayeff’s newly-listed Modernist gem is considered one of the most important buildings from Britain’s inter-war period
New Chair for the NHBC
After nine years as Chair of the National House-Building Council, Isabel Hudson is making way for Alan Rubenstein.
Foxtons reveals lockdown cost; aims to re-open all branches by 1st June
Estate agency chain aims to complete a phased re-opening of all branches by next Monday. Commission earnings dropped by 44% in the last eight weeks compared to the same period in 2019.