His mother is a mortgage service manager for Colliers Spectrum Cauble, a commercial real estate consultancy in Atlanta.
However, Bim is only being used properly on the largest projects, says Barry Connolly, a director at real estate consultancy JLL.
Research from Knight Frank (pdf), another London-based real estate consultancy, indicates that "increased demand for property close to transport links has a clear relationship with price performance".
International schools that represent a broadly Western education based on liberal values are growing in popularity around the world, according to a recent report by Knight Frank, a real estate consultancy, the 2013 "Global Corporate Lettings" report.
In addition, there is a growing trend of people getting disillusioned with life in the suburbs and wanting to move back to city living, said Christian Dillenberger, managing director of the Dr. Lübke real estate consultancy in Düsseldorf.
Knight Frank, the London-based global property company, just released the data, the beginnings of its joint venture with Beijing Holdways Information & Technology, a Chinese real estate consultancy, to produce reliable information on the world's largest market.
"It's the same with any insurance company — if losses go up, the rates will go up," said John Tuccillo, the principal in John Tuccillo & Associates, a real estate consultancy in Arlington, Va.
Even after recent appreciation, the rule of thumb here is that condominium prices, at $372 to $418 per square foot, are one-seventh of comparable prices in Singapore and a tenth of comparable prices in Hong Kong, according to the Jakarta office of Cushman Wakefield, a global real estate consultancy and brokerage firm.
Investors like these markets for their geography, educational institutions, lifestyle and economic activity, according to Knight Frank, a global real estate consultancy.
But surely, when you hire a real management consultancy you get everything that comes with it: experience, specialized knowledge, million-dollar resources and accountability.
