Location: International
Scheme Players: How to form a successful joint venture
It seems as though most major property development projects now involve some form of joint venture.
Black Brick hires new business consultant
Mayfair-based buying agency Black Brick has hired a new business consultant to develop its network across Asia.
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Global house price slowdown continues as ‘engines of growth’ stall
Knight Frank's latest analysis of house price growth around the world has recorded Dubai's first quarterly decline in four years, together with a slowdown across much of Asia.
Officers-to-Resi: Abu Dhabi buys New Scotland Yard for £370m
Abu Dhabi Financial Group has been named as the buyer of the Met Police's HQ, New Scotland Yard in Victoria. The firm nabbed the 1.
Estate Agency of the Year Awards: Winners
Many awards were dished out at last week's Estate Agency of the Year Awards; here's who won what.
Overall Winner
Pygott & Crone
Best Buying Agency
Gold: Black Brick
Silver: Garrington
Rental Health: Million-plus lettings surge as HNW buyers wait and see
It looks like London's super-rich are opting for to wait and see for the next 12 months, as the very top-end of the rentals market - with six and seven figure annual rents - booms.
Ortega tops UK property rich list
Taking some time off from compiling the Sunday Times Rich List, Dr Richard Beresford's been working out who are the 250 wealthiest individuals in the UK property world.
Rising Stamp: Surveying the new SDLT landscape
The movement from a Stamp Duty slab tax to a graduated tax is a welcome move, says residential fund management outfit LCP on the first day of the new SDLT regime.
SDLT reform ‘overdue’ but will buyers at the top end ‘eventually take it on the chin’ or is it a ‘disaster for prime property sales’?
Property industry insiders weigh-in on George Osborne's overhaul of the property tax regime...
Axis All Areas: Corcoran and John Taylor enter global luxury ‘alliance’
US real estate brokerage The Corcoran Group and Euro-centric luxury property agent John Taylor have "entered into an alliance" to service HNW buyers and sellers around the world.
Balls announces mansion tax thresholds; admits he could be ‘a very, very unpopular man’ if Labour wins in May
"Of course Savills are going to try and scare everybody with a £50m house," said Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as he outlined his ideas for mansion thresholds in Labour's proposed progressive tax on high-value…
First Look: Battersea Power Station’s ‘Malaysia Square’
The first images of Malaysia Square - the public space that'll form the heart of the redeveloped Battersea Power Station - have been released.