Location: Americas

Apartments at Extell's Central Park Tower in New York will range in size from 1,435 to over 17,500 square feet

Luxury hospitality giant follows up last year's launch of Twenty Grosvenor Square in London with Four Seasons Private Residences Los Angeles, its first freestanding resi scheme in North America

It's taken a while for everyone to get over that video by celebrity developer Nile Niami, released to draw attention to his latest spec mansion scheme in Bel Air.

A former farmhouse in Brooklyn has been transformed into an ultra-luxe townhouse

Here's a pretty impressive time-lapse showing one of the last remaining major waterfront development sites on Manhattan's Upper West Side being transformed into a "best in class" luxury resi scheme.

Six-year-old Compass secures another huge tranche of funding; sets sights on international markets

Residential property prices are falling in half of the world's "bubble risk" cities, say investment experts

Extraordinary Rafael Viñoly creation, originally built for an Argentinian billionaire, has been listed at $50m

Online retail and tech giant Amazon has made its first investment foray into the house-building sector, backing an American modular construction start-up.

Online estate agency claims 'brand awareness levels higher than the leading property portals'

New York re-claims the top spot, but Asian hubs are catching up fast according to the 24th Z/Yen Global Financial Centres Index

Ritz-Carlton owner has grand ambitions to develop many more stand-alone luxury residential schemes around the world in the coming years