Location: Europe
Cash flood surges through London’s West End
One West End agency has reported a massive increase in cash buyers this year, with 75% now choosing to stump up the readies for their purchases, compared to just 20% in 2012.
Burmese Tigers: London agent opens up in Myanmar
There are, as we all know, loads of foreign buyers snapping up property in Britain.
Wealthy Appetite: HNWIs gobbling up European prime property
Very few agents can go toe to toe with Beauchamp Estates on sheer net-worth-per-client.
Bungle Bungle: William Carrington’s Summer Review
Record prices have been "dismembering the traditional principles of valuation" in London, says William Carrington in his opinionated, informed and ever-entertaining introduction to The Lonres Summer Residential…
Here and There: Global buying trends in London
In the third part of Savill's World in London report, Paul Tostevin runs through who's buying up London and where they're from;
Riviera Cheek: The Doer Upper does St Tropez
St Tropez is not all glamour, especially if you're a buying agent... Alan Page reports from Notting Hill-on-Sea on what to love and the four types of Riviera buyer.
Number of £500k+ homes coming onto the market surges 20%
One major credit reference agency reckons there's been a deluge of properties worth over £500k hitting the market this year.
Data from from information leviathan Experian points to a whopping 19.
Measuring Up: Strutt & Parker goes the cubic route
Strutt & Parker has debuted its big idea in property measurement this week, pushing sales by volume over standard square footage.
Continental Drifting: Which European markets are still luring HNWIs?
Authoritatively addressing the bigger picture, Aylesford International's latest research has taken an interesting look at key European markets and how governments are specifically targeting HNWIs in a…
Abrahmsohn: Xenophobic proposals to increase housing supply are daft with a capital D
The latest idea from a Lib Dem MP - to stop developers selling homes to overseas buyers - has not gone down well with Trevor Abrahmsohn. At all.
Hong Kong refuses to cool as global house prices heat up
On to the really big picture now, and Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index has recorded a 6.6% rise in average prices in the year to March, the highest rate of growth since Q2 2010.
Patrizia appoints UK resi specialist
German fund manager Patrizia Immobilien AG has significantly bolstered its resi investment and asset management capabilities in the UK, by appointing former CBRE and Grainger big-hitter Andrew Pratt.