Location: Americas

In the second part of Candy & Candy's GPS Report, Savills' Yolande Barnes and Paul Tostevin break down where the rich are buying what, focusing on luxury enclaves of "play" properties around the globe.

A top notch restaurant can "make a good location even better," raising property prices by up to 20% according to some research by Mayfair's Wetherell estate agency and Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings.

Agents' Mutual, the unnamed estate agency-owned property portal that aims to take down the Rightmove/Zoopla duopoly, has hit its golden number of signed-up offices, and can now "move forward to  implementation…

Knight Frank LLP, the self-proclaimed "world’s leading independent property advisor", has had a rather good year.

This sounds like a really bad idea: The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is scheduled to announce that developers can build in National Parks, just so long as they do some  "biodiversity offsetting"…

Annual house price growth should be limited to 5%, argues the RICS today.

Mayfair-based developer Angle Property has reported a brisk trade in its new scheme on Buckingham Street, Covent Garden, with all four of the Linley-designed one-bedroom units going for full asking price…

Fancy brushing up on your knowledge of the capital's preeminent abodes? Better pop this in the diary then;

Number One Grosvenor Square, currently the Canadian High Commission, is to be sold off for either residential or hotel use.

Where square footage is at a premium, developing the space above a building can unlock sky-high rewards.

Hong Kong has trumped Switzerland as most expensive construction market, according to EC Harris's latest International Construction Costs Report, while Australia and Japan have both seen significant…