Location: International
Billionaire Census 2014: Profiling the average billionaire
There are now 2,325 billionaires in the world - 7% up on last year and more than ever before - worth $7.3 trillion between them (12% up on last year); that's 4% of the world's total wealth.
Savills sets up shop in the Middle East
Savills has formed new partnerships in Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai to boost its presence across the region.
Big Picture: Is this the beginnings of a ‘two-speed’ Europe?
Dubai has topped Knight Frank's worldwide house price growth league again - for the fifth quarter on the trot - but there's been some very interesting developments across Europe...
Scottish independence and the UK property market
Trevor Abrahmsohn explains how the result of this week's historic referendum could impact on both foreign investment and prices...
The connection here is very current and could be predicted.
£8m investment fuels Canburg’s global interiors ambition
Canburg, the owner of high-end interiors brands Smallbone of Devizes and Mark Wilkinson Furniture, has netted an £8m capital investment from the Business Growth Fund to "accelerate its UK and international…
MMR plus ‘acute’ conveyancer shortage slowing transactions by up to a month – RICS
We're seeing a return to a 'less volatile' market, according to the monthly collective finger in the air by RICS surveyors.
Cordea Savills widens London resi development fund zone
Investment manager Cordea Savills has broadened the remit of its London residential development fund, to look at "select locations" across Greater London rather than maintaining the prime central focus…
Phillips moves to Berkeley Square
Fine stuff auction house Phillips has moved its European HQ from Howick Place in Victoria to a state-of-the-art space at the top of Berkeley Square in the heart of Mayfair.
Prime markets in key global cities are ‘increasingly moving together’
Now they're officially in bed together (more here), Knight Frank Residential and US brokerage Douglas Elliman have decided to pool their resources on the research front too.
Where’s the Wealth? London, luxury assets and the UHNW landscape
The prime London market is closely linked to the private wealth of ultra high net worth individuals, says Savills' Sophie Chick in another installment of the agency's Prime London Autumn Spotlight.
Prime London’s top-end surges as vendor expectations cool
The average sale price in prime central London shot up by 27% to £4.
Asian investors close in on £1bn Bankside scheme
It sounds like an Asian consortium headed up by Native Land is leading the race for Carlyle's monumental Bankside Quarter scheme by the Tate Modern.