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NY’s 432 Park Avenue tower sells three neighbouring $40m penthouses on the same day
Same-day deal could mean that a single buyer is creating a $120m super-penthouse on the 92nd and 93rd floors...
Aussie vendor slashes $275k after seeing a buyer’s worthy social media profile
"Feel-good decision" sees a six-bed Brisbane mansion go to the under-bidder, after the owners Googled prospective buyers
New President for Douglas Elliman
Scott Durkin has been named President (as well as COO) of the high-end US real estate firm
Caribbean beachfront site offered for Bitcoin only
"Bloody Bay" - A 13-acre stretch of Union Island in St Vincent and the Grenadines - is now on the market with an asking price of 600 Bitcoin
Malibu beach house set for LA’s biggest ever deal (thanks to $35m worth of contents)
$120m package would comfortably top last year's sale of the Playboy Mansion
Ireland named as ‘the worst place to live in Europe’
Switzerland has the highest quality of life in Europe, says uSwitch; the UK is fifth out of 15 countries
London has over 6,000 UHNW second home owners
New York leads the world in terms of overall UHNW presence, but the UK capital has a far higher proportion of mega-wealthy 'second homers'...
Parisian art house buys John Taylor Group
Fine art auction house Artcurial has made a significant move on the property sector, acquiring 150-year-old international estate agency group John Taylor.
The Future of Real Estate: The seven global cities with the best economic prospects for the next decade
Savills takes an holistic view of global real estate sector in its new flagship report, looking at long-term trends and (very) macro influences that affect resi, commercial and investment markets around…
ZPG posts record performance as it acquires a Dutch property data company
The acquisition of Calcasa in the Netherlands will create the largest residential property valuation database in Europe.
Miami heats up as Zaha Hadid’s luxury resi tower launches a Preview Residence
First Look: Developers have opened a show apartment on the 17th floor of "Miami's most prestigious skyscraper", just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach.
SCMP: Want a free Tesla? Yours if you are willing to spend up to US$5 million on a Hong Kong flat
How one developer is using the Tesla brand's "cool" cachet to appeal to the young and moneyed (Image: Karlis Dambrans)