Location: Europe
SDLT and All That: UK home buying costs Vs the rest of the world
Despite last year's Stamp Duty overhaul ladling some extra bulk on to the cost of buying a top-end home in Britain, the UK's prime buyer's burden is still pretty competitive in the global marketplace,…
Wealth Centres: A field guide to the world’s ultra-rich residential hubs
Just shy of US$3 trillion of the world's private wealth is held in owner-occupied residential properties, says a new report by Wealth-X and the Sotheby’s International Realty.
Chestertons expands into Monaco
Chestertons is continuing its global domination plans apace, signing up a new Associate in Monaco.
Learning from Rolls Royce: The growing demand for bespoke design
When it comes to designing homes for the most discerning clients in the world, going above and beyond the norm comes as standard, says Joe Burns...
Countrywide ‘poised to deliver record results’
Property gigantor Countrywide says it is "poised to deliver record results in 2014 in line with expectations despite recent market slow-down."
Pricey Comparison: The world’s most unaffordable property markets
Hong Kong is the world's least affordable place to buy a home - with median house prices coming in at 17 times the median income - while the UK's overall multiple is a - relatively - benign 4.7.
Fashion tycoon’s new mansion ruffles feathers in Wiltshire
The construction of a new nine bedroom mansion has caused a right old fuss in sleepy Ramsbury, with two tycoons seemingly at war over scuppered pheasant shoots and plots to pop off some "monotonous" poplars.
Swiss Please: Currency windfall drives ‘overnight’ surge of investors to London
Last week's surprise removal of the EURCHF floor and another cut in the deposit rate has already driven a surge of enquiries from Switzerland's wealthocracy looking to shift assets to Blighty, say property…
Think tank calls for the abolition of the Green Belt
Right-leaning think tank the Adam Smith Institute thinks that ditching Green Belt protection for land with half-a-mile of train stations could deliver enough new homes for the next decade, and that "complete…
Luxury projects put London at the top of the global construction cost league
A preponderance of luxury resi developments has made central London the most expensive place to build in the world, according to a new report, as the capital's high-end homes market is "reaching a capacity…
House price growth slows – ONS
House prices across the UK went by an average of 10% in the year to November 2014, says the ONS, down a touch from October's +10.4% after just a 0.2% increase between October and November.
‘Red Baron’ swoops in to rescue Apethorpe Hall
A 48-bedroom Jacobean mansion, described by Simon Thurley as "by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s", has been bought by a French…