Charted: European rental Vs house price inflation since 2007
House price growth in the EU has been lumpy since the global financial crisis, while rental prices have climbed at a fairly consistent rate over the last 13 years…
Lisbon, Sydney & Moscow set to lead residential price growth in 2020
“While the outlook for 2020 is generally more positive” than in 2019, says Savills, “price growth in prime residential markets is still expected to be modest across many global cities”
Ranked: The world’s most expensive cities for wealthy residents
Julius Baer has looked into the cost of living across 20 items for High Net Worth individuals, including residential property, watches, jewellery, fine wine, cars, business class flights and lawyers, to come up with a list of the costliest cities to live for the world’s wealthiest…
‘Prices are rising across more global cities but at a slower rate’ – Knight Frank
At +24%, Budapest saw the fastest residential property price inflation of any major world city in the year to September 2019
Global house price inflation sinks to its lowest level in six years
Hungary has seen the fastest annual property price inflation of any of the 56 countries or territories measured by Knight Frank in the last year
Billionaires’ Rows: The world’s top ten ultra-prime addresses
Knight Frank identifies the ten global locations that have seen the most ultra-prime (US$25m+) property sales in the last five years… Six are in the USA, three are in Hong Kong – and one is in London.
Singapore faces massive property over-supply
A glut of new-build homes coming to market could take four years to clear, thwarting price growth
Paris predicted to lead global prime property price growth in 2020
Knight Frank flags nine global prime resi trends to monitor in 2020, while picking which prime global cities are likely to see rising house prices in the coming year – and which are set for price falls.
Hong Kong’s wealthy seek safe haven in London’s prime property market
HNW buyers from the troubled region have splashed over £25m with one PCL agency in recent weeks, snapping up apartments in Whitehall, Marylebone and Kings Cross…
London named the world’s most ‘comprehensively attractive’ city for the eighth year
London, New York, Tokyo and Paris are the most “comprehensively attractive” and “magnetic” cities in the world, according to 2019’s Global Power City Index
Hong Kong’s prime Kai Tak development plot goes for HK$15.95bn
A consortium of property developers has acquired the most valuable slice of residential development land on Hong Kong’s former airport, for significantly less than the adjacent plot
Returns Trip: Global trends in holiday home ownership
“The second home market has changed significantly over the last decade,” says Savills. “Once a discretionary purchase primarily for own use, today’s global market is driven by income returns.”