Location: Americas
Savills partners up in San Francisco
Savills has struck a deal with a market-leading San Francisco-based real estate brokerage, significantly strengthening the firm's US capabilities
What Ozymandias can tell us about the London property market
Beware the hubris of market interference, says Jeremy McGivern as he turns to Shelley's King of Kings for insight into London's inflating property prices: equality is not - and never has been - an option…
Asian cities dominate global prime property price growth
Booming Asian hubs have dominated Knight Frank's annual review of luxury property markets around the world, but some of the cities most affected by the 2008 downturn have been hitting the road to recovery,…
How many prime square metres will US$1m buy you around the world?
Monaco, where US$1m buys you a paltry 15 square metres
City
$1m buys X sq m
Monaco
15.0
Hong Kong
20.6
London
25.2
Singapore
32.6
Geneva
34.7
New York
40
Boris opens door to new top council tax band
Mayor Boris Johnson: "If you compared with a Russian oligarch is paying on his stuccoed schloss in Kensington in annual council tax compared to what such a gentleman might be asked to pay in Paris or New…
Genr8 recruits A-list team for major urban development projects
Urban renewal specialists Genr8 has recruited some seriously heavyweight people, including former JLL Chief Exec and Chairman of the UK Green Building Council Andrew Gould, to its team in advance of a…
Space Planning: Knight Frank goes galactic
Sub-orbital space travel has the right stuff to "radically shift global property markets," says Knight Frank (and Richard Branson) in its soon-to-launch Wealth Report 2014
Global Live-Work costs spiral 21% since 2009 as world economies “rebalance”
Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris top a new list of the most expensive cities for live-work spaces from Savills, with all four topping the $100,000 per year mark
Fit for purpose? London’s new wave of private gyms and spas
Residents of modern luxury developments are increasingly looking for more than an apartment, displaying an appetite for "lifestyle packages" to rival those found in the world's top hotels.
Sentimental Value: Eleventh consecutive month of rises for Knight Frank index
Knight Frank's Future House Price Sentiment Index is getting a bit predictable: another record high in February takes it to 11 months of ever-happier homeowners in a row
“Candy-ification” boosting London’s luxury rental market – Wetherell
The capital's luxury rental market is in the midst of "Candy-ification", according to one Mayfair-based firm, with increasing numbers of properties sporting monthly asking prices of between £60,000-£80,000.
New £150m prime resi scheme for St James’s?
Rumours of another big PCL acquisition are doing the rounds, this time in St James's, where its been reported private equity firm Henley Investments has snapped up a period office block with designs …