Location: MENA

London is the most expensive city in the world for prime resi, says CBRE, with average prime new build prices now standing at £2,000 per square foot.

MD of property buying advisors Quintessentially Estates talks us through some some of the firm's most noteworthy acquisitions

Top-end acquisition outfit Quintessentially Estates has cut the ribbon on its latest sun-soaked outpost and revealed plans for a significant expansion of the business in 2015.

JLL Residential has strengthened its Middle East & North Africa capability with a senior appointment.

Christie's International Real Estate has made its first foray into the Middle East, signing up a new affiliate in Dubai to cover the United Arab Emirates.

Chinese buyers are looking to less traditional international property destination as "many housing markets around the world are now considered overvalued," says super-portal Juwai.

A super-high-end real estate portal, which limits the number of agents able to list stock to just 100, has launched in the UAE with plans to conquer the UK and US markets in 2015.

Rents in global prime cities have dropped a touch, says Knight Frank, although the rate of decline is slowing in the world's key financial centres...

A developer in Dubai has apparently admitted that it used screen grabs from computer game SimCity to illustrate its pitch for a 20 million square foot "futuristic urban hub".

London is the most expensive city in the world to locate an employee, overtaking the "winner" for the last five years, Hong Kong, in Savills Live/Work Index.

Savills has formed new partnerships in Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai to boost its presence across the region.

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...