International
Brand & Deliver: Global brand licensing plans for Candy & Candy
Uber-developer Candy & Candy has decided to roll out its brand around the world through a series of licensing agreements.
Goodbye “hotel chic” and other trends for 2014
There'll probably be fewer foreign buyers, dull design schemes and 60s mansards this year, says James Bailey...
Has Abramovich’s $75m Manhattan mega-deal hit the bricks?
Jagger was right; it looks like you can't always get what you want, even if you are a Russian oligarch with billions in the bank.
Interior Monologue: Tales from the design front line
Alec Watt experiences the international appetite for London property first-hand and attends possibly the best client meeting in the world...
Other Side of the Tax: Lessons from Hong Kong
Taxing the rich can have a devastating effect on the property market; just look at what's happening in Hong Kong, says our resident doer upper Alan Page.
Chinese investors “frantic” to buy in London
London property "is 8% cheaper than it was six years ago" for Chinese buyers thanks to the strength of the Renminbi, says WA Ellis in a new report on South East Asian buyers in the capital.
“Utterly nuts” to slam door on foreign investors – BoJo
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has thrown his weight behind the capital's foreign buyers, warning luminaries at last night's Mansion House London Government Dinner that we'd be "utterly nuts" to "slam the…
20% of UHNW wealth is in property as private money sculpts world real estate markets
The richest 0.003% of the world population (200,000 people) - owns 3% of the world's total real estate value (worth around US$ 5.
Global strife drives the London property market
If a junta flaps its warheads in China... What happens to London's house prices?
10th International Property Show: 8th – 10th April, Dubai
The tenth International Property Show will, according to organisers, be 25% bigger than last year's event, with 300 exhibitors from 80 countries descending on Dubai's International Convention and Exhibition…
Objects of Desire #2: Trophy property and the headless investment
The heart over-rules the head for many buyers of 'Billionaire Property' says Stephen Rees, Head of Real Estate Advisory at Coutts, in the second part of the bank's Objects of Desire report into passion…
London tops foreign investment hotlist
London has pipped New York to be named as the world's top city for foreign estate investment opportunity, according to a survey by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate.