Location: Europe
Grosvenor reshuffles its top table
            Grosvenor Group is moving the chairs around its top table, creating a new Group Chief Exec role and promoting two, all with effect from 1st January 2017.
        
    ‘Definitive’ single UK House Price Index to launch in June
            Details of the new single UK House Price Index (UK HPI) - an official amalgam of the ONS and Land Registry, due to launch properly in June - have been released, including a handy comparison of how historic…        
    PDP architect joins luxury developer Residence One
            Super-prime developer Residence One has hired Kate Codrington as Project Architect from PDP London.
        
    At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow (exhibition)
            The Royal Institute of British Architects and BBC Four have teamed up to create a new exhibition - At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow - which re-examines how we live and showcases thought-provoking…        
    Russians halve overseas property spend
            The volume of real estate purchases by Russians has halved in the space of a year, according to the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).
        
    Mark Collins on MIPIM’s resi highlights
            This year's conference was characterised by a mood of cautious optimism, says CBRE's Chairman of Residential...
        
    An Odd Mood: Reflections on MIPIM 2016
            With the sword of Damocles dangling over everyone's heads, confidence in the resi sector was muted at best in Cannes, reports Nicky Richmond...
It's always really quiet, the flight back to Blighty.        
    MIPIM Diaries #2: Nicky Richmond
            The Budget did not go down well in Cannes, reports Brecher's Nicky Richmond in her latest missive from MIPIM...
Its like a stag party, said the client, but with business cards...
        
    Iranian buyers gear up for £6bn overseas property spending spree
            London, Dubai, Switzerland, Germany and the South of France could be in line for a £6 billion wave of investment from UHNW Iranian property buyers over the next 5-10 years, according to new predictions.
        
    French resi market boosted by return of the Brits
            Residential sales across France were up 12.5% last year compared to the same period in 2014, according to the Notaires de France.
        
    MIPIM Diaries #1: Nicky Richmond
            Hosting a breakfast for bankers in a venue that doesn't take reservations? What could possibly go wrong, says Nicky Richmond in her first dispatch from Europe's biggest property fair...
        
    Osborne extends SDLT surcharge and cracks down on offshore developers #Budget 2016
            "We can choose to be a force for stability", said Chancellor George at the start of today's Budget speech, but four overhauls of the nation's finances within 12 months - two full Budgets, an extra Summer…