Global Real Estate

An Bord Pleanála has refused permission for a development of 74 houses beside Adamstown in west Dublin after its inspector determined the estate would be too small for the site. Minister for Justice and local Fine Gael TD Frances Fitzgerald had appealed to the board not to approve the development proposed by Crekav Landbank Investments Limited, the company fronted by ...

In this article, we will share with you a list of top 5 coolest places you should visit in 2016 It is another year of possibilities and another opportunity to gain new grounds and enlarge coasts. For those who love traveling, the world can only get bigger and you list of places visited should lengthen each year. As your wish ...

Kourtney Kardashian’s baby Daddy, Scott Disick has spent $5.96million on a bachelor pad close to Kourtney Kardashian lives. It has been six months since The 32-year-old, Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian split and he moved out of their home. But now the entrepreneur and businessman has found his own bachelor pad. Disick, purchased a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom home in the Hidden ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has introduced a new standard that will bring transparency and consistency to global real estate markets. The International Property Measurement Standard for Offices (IPMS for Office Buildings) came into effect on January 1. It replaces the existing Code of Measuring Practice and is in line with the International Property Measurement Standard (IPMS), and ...

Canada’s Acton Ostry Architects, in collaboration with tall wood advisor Architekten Hermann Kaufmann, has begun construction on the appropriately named “Tall Wood Building,” an 18-story, 53-meter residential tower for Canada’s University of British Columbia (UBC) upper year and graduate students. The tower will be the world’s tallest wooden residential tower, but may not hold that title for long: MGA’s 35-story ...

A 27-year-old Chinese property mogul has splashed out on a $52 million mansion with views of Sydney Harbour. Shangjin Lin, known also as Jim, made the off-market purchase on the waterfront trophy home Villa Igiea after six months of property hunting in Sydney’s exclusive suburbs, Domain reports. The 1920s mansion in Vaucluse will potentially take second place on Sydney’s record sales list ...

The value of real estate deals and sales concluded in 2015 in the emirate of Dubai amounted to a total of AED225 billion, according to a survey by the Al Bayan newspaper. The figure signals a growth rate of three per cent or AED7bn compared with the AED218bn recorded in 2014 in the emirate. In December, property sales and deals ...

Dubai property giant Emaar Properties promised Saturday to restore its luxury 63-storey hotel in the emirate, which was damaged in a spectacular fire on New Year’s Eve. “We are determined to restore it to all its glory, and even surpass the splendid architectural standards,” said chairman Mohamed Alabbar. “Further timelines and plans will be shared as they are finalised,” he ...

A reclusive property tycoon who was once worth £3billion is reportedly embroiled in a bitter secret divorce battle with his Lithuanian-born wife over property and assets worth millions. Syrian-born investor Simon Halabi started as the director of a UK property firm in the 1980s and going on to become Britain’s 14th richest man – before losing almost everything and becoming ...

Residential property prices in some locations in the United Kingdom could increase by as much as eight per cent in 2016 as the recovery that has taken hold in London ripples out across the country. But overall price growth is expected to be around six per cent across the country during the year, according to the forecast from the Royal ...