Location: International
London Design Festival: 13th – 21st September 2014
There's just tonnes of interiors and design stuff going in London from the 13th - 21st September for the London Design Festival. Here's a small(ish) selection of highlights:
A Place Called Home
Why is Dubai’s mainstream market outperforming its luxury homes market?
What lessons can the UK Government learn from policy decisions in other prime property markets around the world? Knight Frank's Khawar Khan explains the reasons behind Dubai's dual-speed market...
London house prices have risen by 19.3% in the last 12 months – ONS
While still strong, the pace of annual house price growth in the UK has dropped a smidge, from +10.4% in the year to May to +10.
‘Heroic’ rescue of Brontë’s muse wins top restoration award
Eight-year project to revive the Grade II*-listed Norton Conyers near Ripon saw off strong competition
Middle Eastern buyers account for 50% of Mayfair’s super-prime deals
Middle Eastern buyers account for half of Mayfair's super-prime (£10m+) deals and around 10% of all acquisitions in the area, says Wetherell.
INTERVIEW: 3RD HOME’s Giles Adams on collaborative consumption
Launched in 2010, 3RD HOME - a reciprocal travel club for luxury second homeowners - now hosts a £3.2 billion portfolio of properties in some of the world's most exclusive locations.
2014’s ‘Ultimate Rich List of Destinations’ revealed
When your clients say they're disappearing off somewhere for a few weeks, they don't mean France any more. These days, the uber-wealthy prefer something a little more 'off the beaten track'.
French Lessons: Wealth tax woes continue in Paris
The punitive tax regime put in place by the French government has had a dramatic effect on the country’s housing market.
Free Lamborghini Diablo: Spanish villa offered with supercar sweetener
A villa on the Costa del Sol is being offered for sale with a free Lamborghini Diablo thrown in to sweeten the deal.
Heron Plaza site sells to Singapore’s UOL Group
Singapore-based UOL Group has bought the Heron Plaza site on Bishopsgate from Gerald Ronson's Heron International for £97m, with plans for luxury residential apartments, a hotel and retail units.
‘Dark storm brewing’ for China’s domestic property portals
"A dark storm is brewing in China’s local real estate market," proclaims Andrew Taylor, the co-founder of Chinese super-portal Juwai, as reports circulate that local realtors and agents are boycotting…
Sotheby’s hits 1m visits a month
Luxury real estate colossus Sotheby’s International Realty has been attracting some bumper online traffic lately; the firm's global website clocked up over a million visits last month.