Location: Australasia
China: The new billionaire capital of the world as Wanda’s Jianlin tops the rich list
China is now home to 596 dollar billionaires after the mega-rich population grew by 68.
Interior Blog Awards: Winners
The Amara Interior Blog Awards took over Firmdale's Ham Yard Hotel - and much of Instagram - last night; here's who won what:
BEST ARCHITECTURE BLOG
Dezeen
English Buildings (WINNER)
Homeli
Cooling measures drive Singapore developers into UK & Australian markets
Seven rounds of cooling measures brought in by the Singaporean government between 2010 and 2013 have triggered a giant wave of investment overseas, according to new research.
Infographic: Rugby Winners Vs Property Winners
Caps off to CBRE for prising a property angle out of the Rugby World Cup.
Is there a correlation between winning nations and house prices?
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
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.
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…
Six reasons why China’s Golden Week will be even bigger for UK property this year
As China's stock market volatility spooks even the most hardy of investors, there's a widespread anticipation of an exodus of Chinese money to "safe haven" property markets around the world;
Sydney mansion smashes Australian price record
A ginormous house in a swanky suburb of Sydney has just sold for "between $60-$70m", making it the most expensive resi deal in Australian history.
Savills buys Aussie estate agency; opens flagship resi office
Savills has completed its acquisition of Sydney-based real estate agency Cordeau Marshall.
Northacre headlines Future Lab’s Luxury Futures Forum
Northacre plc, which recently sponsored the V&A's "What is Luxury" exhibition, has just announced that it is headline sponsor of trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory’s 10th "Luxury Futures…
A European Community: Who’s really moving to London?
The capital's inbound migration numbers don't quite tally with all the far-flung headlines, discovers property search agency Garrington.