Investment
F1 champ backs top-end Monaco property firm
Formula One championship leader Valtteri Bottas has become a major shareholder in a Monaco-based luxury property investment firm Azurite
Top family office launches real estate advisory division
Sandaire has hired Arbuthnot Latham's former Head of Real Estate and LSH Investment Management's co-founder to lead the new venture
Ranked: The world’s most ‘resilient’ cities for investors
New York, Tokyo, London and Los Angeles are the four global cities 'most resilient to global disruption now and in 2028', says Savills - but a realm of challengers are rising in India, China and the Middle…
Wealthy Chinese lead demand for UK’s ‘golden visas’
Nearly two thirds of the applications made for Tier 1 investor visas last year came from Chinese nationals, while demand halved amongst wealthy Russians
Number of homes ‘earning more than their owners’ falls as property price growth slows
The 'gulf between earnings and property price inflation has shrunk considerably across the UK in recent years', says Halifax
Resi performance bolsters Carter Jonas’ Model Estate
Property consultancy's notional agricultural estate saw its total value drop by 1.7% last year, despite positive performance from residential elements.
Church of England plans 9,000 new homes on excess land
The church 'has something unique to contribute to the housing crisis', says the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
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 t…
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
CapitalRise smashes crowdfunding target
Over 500 investors have backed the luxury property crowdfunding platform, raising nearly £2m to "accelerate expansion"
Dubai developer is ‘looking aggressively’ for another major prime London development project
Damac's Chairman says the firm is 'looking aggressively' to spend 'up to £500m' on a second prime London resi project.
Amsterdam looks to ban new-build buy-to-lets
European city plans to write a rental ban into new-build leasehold conditions.