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Will the proposed CGT changes make London look expensive on the international stage? Savills doesn't seem to think so.

You probably heard something about George Osborne, capital gains tax and overseas buyers yesterday.

It may have already been dismissed by the Treasury as "pre-Autumn Statement speculation", but the spectre of a capital gains tax on foreign investors has been doing the rounds this morning.

Flexing its global reach to the max, Knight Frank has had a crack at working out which nationality is the world's "leading cross-border buyer of new-build luxury property".

Increasing numbers of developers and private sellers are specifically preparing their properties to attract HNW international buyers.

The Hurlingham Club in Fulham is once again playing host to some of the world's choicest resi real estate, as the Luxury Property Show comes to town for the seventh time.

89% of homeowners expect property prices to rise over next six months (from 80% in Q2), making this the most positive market for four years, according to the new Zoopla Sentiment Survey.

So Olympia isn't quite as glam as Cannes. And the cycle ride there won't come with quite the same sense of achievement.

One of Soho's most eagerly anticipated new resi schemes - the transformation of the former Central St Martins School of Art into The Saint Martins Lofts - has just been unveiled (although nearly half of…

UHNWIs operate on a global basis, so in terms of buying additional prime homes the world is truly their oyster.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England has come out strongly against Government plans to allow farmers to turn buildings into houses:  the proposals, which are being consulted on now, "are badly thought…