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As short-term accommodation phenomenon AirBnB rolls out its ‘Luxe’ division, targeting the very top-end of the international property market, lawyer Laura Kearns flags up the key obligations, processes and pitfalls that HNWIs and their advisors should be aware of – and some precautions worth taking to avoid ending up as a newspaper headline…
Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs has developed a smart city regeneration plan for 12 acres of Toronto’s industrial waterfront, calling it ‘the most innovative district in the entire world’
List Sotheby’s International Realty surveys the rarefied market for top-floor apartments measuring 10,000 square feet or more, revealing the biggest deals over the last five years, and the most spectacular options currently available to UHNWI buyers around the world…
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The value of the UK’s “residential operational real estate” sector – combining build-to-rent, senior living and student housing – is set to quadruple, forecasts Savills, hitting £880bn once fully mature
Mayfair House, a boutique rental scheme on Shepherd Street, achieved a record five wins at the annual EMEA CEDIA Awards, picking up Best Multiple Dwelling Unit Design, Life Lived Best at Home, Technology Meets Design, Best Dressed Rack, and Best Documentation. Smart home technologists The Next Level talk us through this particularly successful retrofit project, demonstrating how to incorporate the very latest systems in a super-prime setting…
In China, clean air is advertised as a luxury product. While that’s not yet the case here, indoor air pollution is one of the most significant (and invisible) risks to health, and the need to examine what we use to build and decorate properties has to go further, says Irene Gunter…
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Six months after stepping up to become co-heads of Prime Central London for Savills, Phillippa Dalby-Welsh & Claire Reynolds talk to PrimeResi about savvy clients, Superbrands, evolving markets, and what makes a prime location stand out
Knight Frank looks at the differential between the average prime property price and the top price achieved in ten global cities over the last five years
Inside one of the last remaining apartments at the innovative RSHP-designed project that’s revitalised Mayfair’s arty side…
The Beauchamp Estates founder celebrates four decades in business with a retrospective of legendary super-prime deals…