NY luxury brokerage Stribling joins Compass
Manhattan luxury specialist Stribling has merged with acquisitive real estate firm Compass
Touring the Foreign Office’s amazing luxury property portfolio
Analysis prompted by last month’s purchase of a spectacular £12m penthouse in Manhattan reveals the FCO currently owns 87 £5m+ properties around the world
What Does The New Mansion Tax Mean For New York?
The new real estate tax regime ‘will take a little time to get assimilated’, writes Frederick Peters, CEO of Warburg Realty in New York, for Forbes – but ‘if it makes the subways run on time, it will be cheap at the price!’
New York’s luxury homeowners face ‘mansion tax’
State budget deal includes new one-time sales tax, pitched at over 4% on homes worth more than $25m
Buffet builds the USA’s biggest resi brokerage
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices of America has now usurped Realogy’s NRT as the largest Stateside operator, accounting for nearly 350k transactions last year
China’s ‘Silk Road urbanism’ is changing cities from London to Kampala – can locals keep control?
Jonathan Silver of the University of Sheffield and Alan Wiig of the University of Massachusetts Boston explore how China’s vast “Belt & Road” investment initiative is transforming neighbourhoods around the world, from London’s Royal Albert Dock to Uganda’s capital Kampala.
Ranked: Average estate agency commissions in European countries
‘The UK is actually home to the lowest estate agent fees in the EU’, claims some research.
Al Rayan reports surge in expat financing
UK’s largest Islamic bank provided £152m worth of finance to British nationals living and working overseas in the last 24 months, up 187% on the previous two-year period
Demolition ordered for ‘pharaonic’ £50m French mansion
Neighbours’ 14-year planning battle ends with a demolition order for a vast party pad near Cannes
Omani billionaire’s luxury property firm rolls into London with flagship Mayfair studio
PNC Menon’s Sobha Realty is launching in the UK, taking over the former Foxtons HQ on Park Lane to create a lavish ‘Global Studio’.
Historic Hotspot: Chelsea named as one of the world’s top ‘luxury neighbourhoods to watch’
Venerable PCL enclave picked alongside up-and-coming districts of Boston, Dubai and Shanghai in rundown of 18 locations ‘set to outperform’ in the year ahead, after suffering one of the biggest slowdowns of any prime London market
Fine & Country moves into Western Australia
Estate agency establishes a ‘flagship’ Perth outpost as it looks mine the top-end of Western Australia’s residential property market.