Location: Europe
RICS gets first ever female president
Louise Brooke-Smith is the new President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the organisation's first female President in its 146 year history.
£45m Balfour Place apartment block hits the market
Mayfair's Next Mega-Mansion?
New Head of International Business for Chestertons
Chestertons has appointed former Savills man Neville Page as the firm's new Head of International Business.
Grosvenor unveils ‘inhabitable sculpture’ for Corbin & King’s new Mayfair hotel
Grosvenor has unveiled an "inhabitable sculpture" by Anthony Gormley that will be attached to Chris Corbin and Jeremy King's new hotel venture, The Beaumont, when it opens on Brown Hart Gardens in Mayfair…
Romancing the Stone: The houses built by love
Many a man has been driven to great lengths by love, and architecture is often a rewarding (though insatiable) mistress for such a passion, says Matthew Beckett...
Colliers buys central London property agency
Colliers International has acquired central London property consultancy H2SO.
Fine & Country makes a move on Russia
Fine & Country has stepped up the pace of its global domination masterplan, opening 16 new offices in the last five months - 15 in the UK - and planning an imminent move into Russia.
Really Useful acquisition for English Rose
Fitzrovia-based developer English Rose Estates has snapped up Andrew Lloyd Webber's former Covent Garden HQ for £20m.
Chinese buyers to become ‘biggest overseas force in London’s property market’ by 2016
Harrods Estates has signed an agency-wide partnership with Chinese mega-portal Juwai.com, as new figures are released on the scale of Chinese investment into the capital's property market.
Is it over for the ‘Safe Haven’ effect in Europe’s luxury markets?
“The critical question is whether prevailing wealth flows will alter now that the worst of the Eurozone crisis is over,” says Knight Frank's Head of International Resi Research Kate Everett-Allen,…
Brussels Spouting: What a Cheek!
Our European counterparts are burdened with a particularly caustic mix of liabilities, and yet they still have the temerity to talk about our so called ‘overheated’ property market - what a cheek,…
Savills joins forces with Marbella agency
Another week and another international tie-up for Savills; this time in sunny Spain, where the real estate behemoth has gotten into bed with Marbella’s longest established estate agency.