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The number of overseas investors confessing to tax evasion in the UK has more than quadrupled to 338 this year from...

Hong Kong buyers currently have the biggest property footprint within the London market, new research from Benham and Reeves shows. The agent’s...

In this guest piece, Dennis Chan, head of international sales at Chestertons, gives his take on the off plan market and...

The ‘potent’ mix of the Covid-19 pandemic and the slow demise of the Evergrande Group, one of China’s largest development companies, is...

We often hear about the attractiveness of the British market to Chinese and Hong Kong investors, but new research has also...

A new thought leadership paper has asked whether the Home Counties – the typically affluent counties surrounding London – will be...

At various points throughout the pandemic, we have posed the question as to whether the UK’s major auction houses will return...

A UK-based private property investment and management company has launched the Sandstone Residential REIT, focused on traditional residential property across ten...

The outlook for Greece’s property market is buoyant, off the back of gradual lifting of restrictions and a surging vaccination programme...

The prime end of the market has been one of the hardest hit by Covid-19, but Euroterra Capital – known as...

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the start of the first lockdown in March 2020, major auction houses up...

The stamp duty holiday – which began in July last year and will continue in its current format until the end...

In recent times, regional property markets have seen a significant increase in investor interest. This upwards trajectory has been historically driven...

Despite the ongoing implications of Brexit and, more recently, the pandemic, the number of overseas landlords owning property in the UK...

Britain and Hong Kong have long had close relations, not least because it was a British colony until as recently as...

A new thought leadership paper has looked at where, what and why Chinese high-net-worth-individuals (HWNIs) and investors are buying and developing in...

International investors are increasingly focusing on the buy-to-let (BTL) property market in the North West of England, according to property investment...

Few places remain unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic, with cases fluctuating across the nation, but still high overall. Domestically, as far...

The number of properties owned by overseas companies in England and Wales has fallen by 4,000 since the EU referendum in...

With 2021 nearly upon us, it’s time to look forward to what the next 12 months could bring from a property...

At the start of this year, you would have got very, very long odds on the prospect of UK-wide lockdowns, mandatory...

The UK's second tier cities are very often more appealing to international investors in terms of guranteed rental returns - as...

Sally Maier-Yip, managing director of 11K Consulting, the UK's leading China PR and comms agency, outlines why buyers from Hong Kong and...

Demand from Chinese investors for UK property soared in July after plummeting between April-June, during the height of the coronavirus lockdown. In...

The 31 October 2020 is a big day for me and my family. It is the day we fly out of...

A residential property and design consultancy for the prime and super-prime London market is seeking to disrupt the traditional model by...

At the start of 2020, the French property market had been flying, with demand for prestige property leading the way.  Sales were at...

The Prime Central London (PCL) property market is the busiest it has been for over five years, according to estate agency...

Demand from Hong Kong buyers looking to 'safeguard' their money in London's 'reliable' property market is on the rise, according to...

Property buyers from Hong Kong are flocking to London, according to one of the capital's largest estate agents. Chestertons says that between...

Global super-prime property markets have performed strongly in recent months, despite the challenges of Covid-19 lockdowns. Knight Frank research shows that 153...

Despite the current thawing of relations between Westminster and Beijing, caused by controversial new laws in Hong Kong (a former British colony)...

Knowing exactly where you can go without having to self-isolate for 14 days upon your return to the UK will be...

Despite the uncertainties posed by coronavirus for the higher education sector, new student accommodation developments are showing no signs of slowing...

When putting together our recent three-part series on the Build to Rent sector, which concluded last Friday with a look at...

A recently-completed £85 million development in Salford has been a huge success with overseas property investors. Downtown, six interlinked apartment blocks inspired...

International investors make up a big chunk of Britain’s second home market, especially in London. Many of these investors hail from...

A thought leadership article from UK-China PR agency 11K Consulting has revealed that a country’s healthcare system, air quality and food...

A Chinese-led house buying boom is on the way in the UK, according to the CEO of Emerging Communications, a Chinese...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on all of our lives, including those who operate in the property...

The coronavirus pandemic is currently dominating all our lives, and is all anyone can really talk or think about at present.  In the property...

Hostmaker, the London-based short-let property management company, has entered administration, just a week after speculation of its possible insolvency was revealed in the Sunday...

Experience Invest, a London-based firm which provides property investors in the UK and overseas access to exclusive investments across a variety of...

Knight Frank has analysed sales data in the most exclusive global residential locations to list the top 10 ultra-prime streets and...

Estate agent Aston Chase has revealed that it has achieved more than £25 million worth of sales to Hong Kong buyers...

GuestReady Group, a leading short-term let and Airbnb property manager, announced this week that it has passed the milestone of $1billion...

Build to Rent operator Atlas Residential has revealed that it will deploy $1 billion (£900 million) through its affiliate Atlas Residential...

There has been a surge in the number of Hong Kong residents travelling to London to invest in residential property, according...

The French property market saw a record 970,000 transactions in 2018, up from 564,000 in the depths of the financial crisis. The...

Estimates by BNP Wealth Management predict that by 2026, Asia will be home to over 35% of the world’s investable real-estate...

The UK’s Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector is predicted to reach a total combined value of over £53 billion by...

Brexit uncertainty is continuing to drive foreign investment in the UK, research by CashbackRemortgages.co.uk has claimed. A third of multi-million pound homes...

The average price for a two-bed city centre flat in the UK is £227,000, nearly £100,000 more than in Europe (£131,000)...

Fresh research examining the movement of prime residential prices in the world’s top cities since the start of the financial crisis,...

Research has revealed there are more than twice as many millennial millionaires in US cities than anywhere else in the world. The...

Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index has revealed that across the 55 countries tracked, house prices increased by 5.6% on average...

Central London commercial investment levels hit £11.5bn during the first seven months of 2017, marking a 24% rise on the corresponding...

Commercial property investment in the City of London last month totalled £2.1bn, boosted by the sale of the Walkie Talkie to...

There has been a sharp rise in amount of money Asian investors, particularly from China, are investing in London’s commercial property...

More than £1.bn was invested in the London hotel market during the first half of this year, which accounts for 55%...

Wealthy foreign investors, particularly from mainland China, are continuing to invest in Hong Kong’s ultra-luxury housing market as part of a...

The average lot size for commercial property investments in the City of London reached almost £110m last month, up 52% on...

Despite the introduction of higher property taxes, demand for residential property in Hong Kong shows no signs of slowing, especially from...

There was a 6.5% increase in global house prices in the year to March 2017, the highest annual rate of growth...

MortgageGym, which is planning to try and change the way UK consumers access the mortgage market, has announced the successful completion...

AIPP CEO, Peter Robinson, talks to Tim Morgan (below right), owner of ERE Property, a UK based company selling UK investment...

Property investors from China have replaced those from Singapore as the largest group of foreign property buyers in Malaysia, fresh figures...

Investment from China last year exceeded Singapore as the largest source of Asian capital in the global property market for the...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of opportunistic foreign investors taking advantage of effective discounts caused by the...

Investment volumes in London increased to £4.1bn in the final quarter of 2016, the latest Property Perspective report from CBRE shows.  The...

Filled with glitzy glass towers and a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures, Hong Kong proudly proclaims itself to be ‘Asia’s...

Global house prices rose 5.3% on average in the 12 months to September 2016, with Turkey, New Zealand and Iceland recording...

Residential property sales in Hong Kong have increased significantly despite the government’s decision to more than double stamp duty last month...

International investors accounted for 78% of the commercial property acquired in central London in the last three months, as the fall...

House prices in London are at risk of falling sharply because they are grossly overvalued, according to research from UBS Global...

Residential property prices continued to boom in some parts of the world, with the five strongest housing markets in Global Property...

Five of the eleven Asian property markets for which figures are available saw house price increases during the year to Q2...

Residential property prices across the world increased on average by 4% in the 12 months to June 2016, with New Zealand,...

YT Realty Group Ltd, the Hong Kong-based investment company, has purchased the Travelodge Hotel close to Liverpool Street Station in London...

Prime residential property prices across the world’s major cities increased on average by 4.4% in the 12 months to June 2016, with...

Residential property sales in Hong Kong have plunged by 39% in the six months ending June compared with the same period...

The world’s wealthiest people have seen their fortunes take a major hit by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Gripped...

Property sales in Hong Kong fell by 11% in May compared with the corresponding month last year despite a 2% increase...

Government measures to rein in property prices and curb speculation in Hong Kong, including a 15% stamp duty for foreign buyers,...

London is now the destination of choice for the world's richest investors, according to recent findings from high-end agency Knight Frank....

I’ve seen a sharp rise this year in the number of foreign investors looking to establish a presence or even expand...

Properties situated near to independent schools and university towns hold their value and are able to recover faster from a housing...