Location: Asia
Cooling measures spread as global prime property price growth escalates
Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy…
Global house prices ‘almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007’
Global house prices are, on average, "almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007" trumpets the International Monetary Fund with its latest index.
International property portals team up to offer global mega-listing network
International uber-network
Vancouver brings in 15% non-resident tax to put the brakes on the property market
The British Columbia Government in Canada has rubber-stamped a 15% levy on foreign buyers of Vancouver property, in a bid to thwart spiralling house prices - but it's given the industry just eight days'…
‘Busiest month yet’ for Northacre as overseas buyers eye London’s super-prime stock
Surge of enquiries in its flagship No. 1 Palace Street scheme since the Brexit vote
What effect will Brexit have on residential property development?
Everyone knows that there are choppy times ahead for the British economy, as uncertainty over just what Brexit means continues until terms sheets are drawn up with the rest of Europe and the world.
‘Risk of oversupply’ as London’s serviced apartment market matures
The serviced apartment sector is continuing to grow at quite the pace - 10.
£500m loan puts Wanda’s One Nine Elms back on track
Chinese bank Ping An has agreed to dish out the dosh - with a £100m initial drawdown
Ranked: The world’s most transparent real estate markets
A new report has ranked 109 of the world's real estate markets according to their transparency.
Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Sydney named top favourable tax locations
Comparing lifestyle factors in 26 "favourable" tax locations around the world, a new report has picked out the best places to live depending on where you're at in life.
Fly Net Worth: Big rise in private jet charters to the UK
We've heard lots of anecdotal evidence suggesting an influx of overseas HNWs to these shores recently, but here's an interesting indicator: the number of private jets flying into London from Asia rocketed…
Inside Mainland China’s most expensive home
A 32-bedroom, 72,441 square foot new-build palace has come up for sale in Suzhou, about 100km outside of Shanghai, for a cool CN¥1,000,000,000 (around US$150m), probably making it the most expensive…