International
New York’s ten ’emptiest’ skyscrapers revealed
The Executive Plaza has been labelled "The Emptiest Skyscraper in New York City" after official figures showed that 74% of the owners actually live elsewhere.
When will HNWs finally conclude that London’s not worth it?
It might be no bad thing that last year's stamp duty overhaul puts paid to the era of gazumping, sealed bids and garages being sold for millions, says Will Hollest, but what message about London does…
Burj Khalifa penthouse sale named as Dubai’s deal of the year
It's been confirmed that an apartment in the world's tallest tower was the biggest sale to go down in Dubai last year.
According to data compiled by Reidin.
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat named ‘world’s most exclusive residential address’
Glitzy international agency Engel & Völkers has been looking into the biggest deals of the year and reckons it's come up with a rundown of the most exclusive addresses on the planet right now.
In Pictures: London’s Top Ten Addresses for Russian Buyers
Some of the most favoured addresses, from Kensington Palace Gardens to The Knightsbridge
2015 to offer a ‘more level playing field’ across global prime cities
The world's luxury residential markets "face a diverse range of challenges and opportunities in 2015" says Knight Frank in it's Prime Global Cities Forecast, with New York likely to have the best of the…
Axis All Areas: Corcoran and John Taylor enter global luxury ‘alliance’
US real estate brokerage The Corcoran Group and Euro-centric luxury property agent John Taylor have "entered into an alliance" to service HNW buyers and sellers around the world.
Singapore has ‘most dismal year since 2008’
As 2014 nears its end, Singapore's developers are likely to time the launch of their projects to avoid the year-end lull period says Muneerah Bee, Senior Journalist at PropertyGuru.
Emerging Prime: On the future of high-end real estate in emerging markets
An ambitious project by international property portal Lamudi has produced a research paper on the future of real estate in the world's emerging markets.
International commercial property measurement standard published (and resi’s next)
After 18 months of toil by a group of measurement experts, including two global public consultations and a mind-numbing 85 drafts, the first international property measurement standard was published…
Cooking Apple: New York super-prime sales up 120%
As median home prices across the US finally return to the kind of levels last seen in 2004, sales of New York's multimillion dollar resi properties have rocketed.
RANKED: House price growth across the G20 member countries
Summing up this week's G20 summit of world leaders in Brisbane, the ever-balanced BBC said the event had delivered 'more than expected on some issues, but somewhat less on others'.