Location: Asia
Hadid awarded RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal
Superstar architect Dame Zaha Hadid has added yet another trinket to her bulging trophy cabinet, winning this year's Royal Gold Medal for architecture.
Yoo and Atelier Arcau team up to create global luxury design ‘powerhouse’
John Hitchcox and Philippe Starck's design/development firm Yoo has formed a "strategic alliance" with French architecture house Atelier Arcau "to design and develop luxury projects around the world.
Australian government forces more sales in $1bn foreign investor crackdown
The Australian government's new crackdown on "illegal" overseas investors has already started snaring some pretty big fish.
Owners of residences in Sydney's exclusive Elizabeth Bay are under scrutiny
‘Mega building’ designer joins Perkins+Will
Architecture and design firm Perkins+Will has secured the services of one of the world's top "mega building" specialists, Jo Palma.
Mapped: The major buyer ‘flows’ shaping international prime resi markets
"Globally mobile" individuals pretty much shape prime city and retreat resi markets around the world, says Savills, by snapping up additional homes for business or leisure.
Developer pitches Camberwell as ‘the new Chelsea’
A Singapore-based developer is pitching Camberwell as "the new Chelsea" to potential buyers of its latest scheme.
China’s top ten property developers building international markets
Chinese real estate developers are driving $34.6bn-worth of property investment outflows from China into markets around the world, with some significant projects in prime London tapping that wealth.
Chinese super-rich investor visas plummet 91%
As the financial ferment continues in China, it looks like the number of super-rich Chinese investors bringing their cash into the UK has fallen off a cliff.
Year of the Dragon: Hong Kong developer bags green light for £8.4bn Greenwich scheme
Hong Kong mega-developer Knight Dragon has been given the go ahead for its ambitious Greenwich Peninsula masterplan, delivering 15,720 new homes and a whole new district twice the size of Soho.
VanHan optimistic on PCL sales market
Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's boutique agency VanHan is expecting the market to pick up in prime central London over the next three months, and has tipped Mayfair as the hotspot to watch.
Digs Spenders: London’s £600m foreign student lettings market now a ‘key driver’
The 107,000 international students currently studying in London contribute a whopping £600m in rental income to the capital's lettings market, with some spending up to £1,500 a week on swanky digs…
USA is the world’s ‘clear number one’ for residential investability – Savills
"Investors in international residential real estate should combine an understanding of macro metrics and an appreciation of local, shorter term drivers of house prices when making buying decisions," says Savills as…