French President Francois Hollande’s increase in taxes for the rich is having an effect on luxury house prices in Paris, according to real estate consultants.

Sales and prices of luxury property in Auckland increased in July with a lack of supply making buyers more decisive, according to agents.

London's prime residential home values rose by an average of 0.9% in the second quarter of 2012, and annual price growth slowed to 6%, as some of the heat has started to come out of the market in the early summer, the latest data from Savills suggests.

The UK's second biggest listed developer, British Land, has confirmed its entry into the luxury apartment market in London.

The most expensive residential locations in Germany have risen significantly in value once again between 2010 and 2011, according to the latest survey of he country’s luxury property market from Engel & Völkers.

Prime central London residential house prices will grow by 6% this year in stark contrast to the rest of the UK, new research from property consultants CBRE has revealed.

A restoration of an historic 15th century palazzo in the heart of Venice has created a collection of exquisite apartments behind its listed facade with interiors by Milan’s most fashionable design house.

The super rich investors credited with pushing up prices in London are now looking to California as the US real estate market starts to turn around, it is claimed.

An increasing amount of sales stock is coming on to the central prime London property market and there is a noticeable increase in families wanting to secure rental properties prior to the Olympics, according to the latest report from agents W A Ellis.

The average house price in central London now stands at £820,200 following a 2.3% increase in the first quarter of 2012 as foreign buyers push up demand, according to the latest research from CBRE.

A new property consultancy has launched to cater for people buying and selling luxury property in southern Spain.

Wealthy people are shunning emerging property markets as they value security, good education for their children over volatility, political insecurity and risk, new research shows.

Wealthy people are shunning emerging property markets as they value security, good education for their children over volatility, political insecurity and risk, new research shows.

The gap in annual price growth between the best and worst performing luxury residential markets was 45% in 2011, according to the results of the Knight Frank Prime International Residential Index (PIRI).

British, Italian and German buyers were the most active in the luxury Paris property market in 2011, according to research from Knight Frank, but interest increased from buyers in Russian, the Middle East and Asia.

A loophole which allows wealthy people to buy a property in the UK through a foreign company and thus avoid paying stamp duty has been effectively closed today (Wednesday March 21) by the government.

Stamp duty on properties in the UK will increase to 7% for properties worth over £2 million, the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne confirmed today (Wednesday 21 March).

Luxury house prices on the British Virgin Islands have remained largely static in recent years despite the global economic  downturn and are expected to hold firm, according to an analysis from Knight Frank.

The residential market property market in Hong Kong saw a notable rebound in sales volume with prices stabilising last month, according to the March 2012 market review from Knight Frank.

Global billionaires have weathered the latest economic uncertainty better than many with ultra high net worth individuals increasingly storing their wealth in bricks and mortar.

There has been a marginal reduction in rents in prime central London since they peaked in September 2011, according to the latest research from sales and lettings agents W A Ellis.

Sustained domestic and overseas demand for prime property in central London has caused a further 25% drop in stock levels at the start of this year, reports property consultants Cluttons.

The average price for a luxury home on the sought after French Riviera has fallen under €2 million for the first time, according to the latest EstateNetFrance index.

Leading rural advisors Saffery Champness, chartered accountants, and Smiths Gore, land agents and chartered surveyors, have said that the proposal for a Mansion Tax in the UK is fraught with anomalies.