Location: International
Shadows of Gentrification: Why we need to know who owns our cities
"The term 'gentrification' does not quite capture the massive changes that have been happening in a growing number of cities worldwide in the last few years"
Learning Potential: Edinburgh, Bristol & Brighton named UK’s ‘most lucrative’ University cities
Edinburgh offers the best prospects in the UK for those looking to invest in student accommodation, according to new research by Chestertons.
We have seen ‘the most turbulent changes to the Prime Central London market since 1991’
A "notably quiet" Q2 in prime central London belies some significant property market movements over the last 18-or-so months, says JLL, with December 2014's stamp duty changes heralding a period of much…
Brace of new recruits at Rokstone
David McGuinness joins the firm as lead valuer
Billionaire population grows, but their share of world wealth ownership slips
There are more billionaires tooling around the globe than ever before, according to specialist researchers at Wealth-X, but the proportion of the world owned by these richest-of-the-rich individuals slipped…
Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, dies aged 64
Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor (1951 - 2016)
Cooling measures spread as global prime property price growth escalates
Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy…
Uncertainty hits New York’s townhouse market
London isn't the only place having a tough time of it.
Out for the Count: Landmark Italian castle on sale for the first time in 650 years
Now this is what you call a landmark listing. An 80-room castle in the foothills of the Dolomites that's been owned by the same family since the fourteenth century is to go under the hammer next month.
Architects come up with 20 ways to ‘tackle the housing crisis’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis".
Global house prices ‘almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007’
Global house prices are, on average, "almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007" trumpets the International Monetary Fund with its latest index.
Three reasons why UK house prices have become detached from earnings
As we learned this week, home ownership is tumbling across the UK - the last Conservative regime has a lot to answer for, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...