Location: International
New Head of Design for Morpheus
Developer Morpheus has seriously bolstered its design offering with the appointment of former Candy & Candy project manager Charu Gandhi.
Global luxury property prices stall
It's time to go macro for a bit. Knight Frank has taken its quarterly check-up of 27 prime markets around the globe and reckons price growth has started to stall.
Here's the key findings:
Artists in Residence: Integrating contemporary art into new developments
Londonewcastle's Robert Soning on finding the right space and the importance of his firm's latest acquisition...
UK has highest property tax rate in the developed world: The full story
Making property taxes fair both politically and economically is no simple task; should tax aim to reduce housing demand or increase housing supply?
Policy Exchange's comprehensive "Taxing Issues?
50% of all prime London homes now worth over £1m – Marsh & Parsons
Over half of the homes in London's prime postcodes are now worth more than a million quid, according to Marsh & Parsons' latest calculations.
That's a rise of 8% on this time last year and 6% since January.
Chesterton Global announces Singapore JV
Chesterton Global, parent company of UK agency Chesterton Humberts, has announced a joint venture in Singapore to "pave the way" for future expansion into Asia.
Green Property & Dalian Wanda complete One Nine Elms deal
Green Property's sale of the epic One Nine Elms scheme to Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has been completed.
JLL takes on 37 new trainees
Jones Lang LaSalle has appointed 37 new trainees to its 2013 UK graduate scheme.
27 will be based in London, with ten other appointments across the firm’s regional office network;
CGT: How will London stack up against New York, Hong Kong & Singapore?
Will the proposed CGT changes make London look expensive on the international stage? Savills doesn't seem to think so.
Capital Gains Tax & Overseas Buyers: Reactions
You probably heard something about George Osborne, capital gains tax and overseas buyers yesterday.
Singapore buyer exchanges on £200m Royal Wharf development site
Royal Wharf, a 37-acre site on the Thames, has been sold for around £200m to Singapore-listed developer Oxley Holdings.
Treasury “awaiting final decision” on foreign investor CGT
It may have already been dismissed by the Treasury as "pre-Autumn Statement speculation", but the spectre of a capital gains tax on foreign investors has been doing the rounds this morning.