The top-end of the Monaco market is on a tear as wealthy buyers seek shelter from the economic storm clouds building on the horizon, reports Abode2 luxury property magazine New data from Knight Frank shows resi sales in the principality…
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The “frenzy” of the last two years may be over but confidence levels amongst the UK’s vendors remain high, reports Abode2 luxury property magazine, with 82% expecting to sell within the next three months. Despite some increasingly ominous things happening…
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It’s encouraging that today’s Queen’s Speech has signalled a renewed effort in favour of tackling geographic inequality across the UK as part of the forthcoming levelling-up and regeneration bill. In the face of the current pressing economic, social and environmental…
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The modern executive nomad – a distant cousin of the freelance creative working from a cafe in Bali or Costa Rica – owns a villa in the Algarve or a condo in Miami, attends Zoom calls from an airy home…
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The number of planning applications to build tall towers in London has dropped by more than 13% in the last year, reports Abode2 as the overall development pipeline for high-rise buildings in the capital contracted by 1% year-on-year in 2021….
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Canada’s government has announced that it will ban most foreign property buyers for two years, in a bid to cool the country’s runaway housing market, reports Abode2. Canadian property prices have been escalating for a while now, jumping by 20%…
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The Spring Statement was never likely to contain any major surprises as far as the property sector was concerned; at least not directly. But action was needed and, positively, it was taken to ease pressure on people’s finances in the…
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Savills has seen a 40% jump in the number of UHNW US buyers registering with its London Private Office in the last two years, reports Abode2. These are serious players – most have budgets ranging from £20m to £50m –…
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It’s shaping up to be another record year in the French housing market, reports Abode2, with record numbers of homes changing hands – exceeding the million homes in the year before the Covid pandemic. Latest data from the Notaires de…
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