Location: MENA
‘Europe is surging ahead’ – Chinese portal assesses global housing markets
Chinese mega-portal Juwai has flagged Ireland as the world's strongest-performing housing market, with a +15.75% price increase in the last year.
EMEA’s luxury home market climbs as ultra-rich ‘flight to safety’ continues
Ultra-rich types are buying up luxury homes around the world "to further diversify their holdings," according to a new report by Wealth-X and the Sotheby’s International Realty, which also flags up…
Fenton Whelan hires top interior designer as Creative Director
Georgina Wood will be in charge of coming up with "opulent" and "timeless" interiors across the firm's £500m portfolio of PCL projects
House prices to rise by 18% over next five years as ‘market stability returns’ – Cluttons
House prices are all set to rise by 18% over the next five years, while rents are likely to increase by 19.
Hamptons wraps up prime roadshow in Dubai
Hamptons International is on the last leg of a tri-city tour, showcasing 96 choice cuts from its premium sales register.
US buyers £33k worse off than last week as sterling soars
Foreign buyers have seen the cost of buying a property in the UK rocket over the last week, after a Tory election win sent the value of the pound skywards.
Global luxury property prices now 46% up on 2009’s low-point
Global prime residential property prices increased by 3.9% in the year to March 2015, according to Knight Frank's index, with North America and Australia pulling up the rest of the world.
Buy a flat in the UAE and get Caribbean citizenship
Prospective buyers of units in a new scheme in the Middle East are being offered a pretty unusual sweetener - citizenship of a Caribbean island.
‘Conflicting factors’ moderate the Scottish country house market
Annual price growth for prime Scottish country houses has eased to +1.2%, after just a 0.
No More Rainy Days: Will the pension revolution boost ‘alternative’ property ownership?
As the UK's retirees begin the process of drawing down an estimated £5 billion from pension funds in the wake of the Government's landmark reforms, the next challenge is of course working out…
Prime global rental growth hits five-year low
There's been "a notable slowdown" in top-end rents around the world over the last quarter, says Knight Frank, as the agency's Prime Global Rental Index records its weakest annual growth rate since 2009.
A two-speed recovery: Global housing markets since the Great Recession
The world's property markets have aligned themselves into two fairly distinct groups since the Great Recession, says the latest global housing update from the International Monetary Fund: