International Markets

Half of the locations tracked by Knight Frank's Global House Price Index have seen double-digit property price inflation in the last year - but growth rates in some of the punchiest world markets now…

“After a record-breaking year in luxury real estate, we anticipate that some balance will be restored to the market,” says Luxury Portfolio International after surveying nearly 5,000 affluent consumers.

Tel Aviv has overtaken Paris to become world’s costliest city to live in, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, as London also rises up the ranks.

Knight Frank predicts that Manhattan property values will increase by 5% in 2022 - the highest rate of inflation in seven years.

The OECD has created a new Housing Data Dashboard, allowing easy comparisons of key property market metrics for developed economies around the world.

But Oxford Economics expects real estate returns to "temper considerably" by 2026, "falling well below their historical trend".

Knight Frank's team flags five key drivers of global property price growth in 2022, and six international trends to watch.

Property markets in most prime global cities continue to run hot, reports Knight Frank.

Before the pandemic, only around one in 20 Chinese and Hong Kong home-buyers used to look for a home in England's Home Counties; now it's nearer one in five, according to a new study.

A total of 16 $10m+ properties went into contract last week, reports Olshan Realty, the highest number since March 2013.

“This year has been an anomaly. We don’t expect this frenetic pace in Swiss resorts to continue," says Kate Everett-Allen in Knight Frank's new Ski Property Report.

Policy measures imposed to cool a runaway property market appear to be working in China - perhaps too well...