Company Tag: Wealth X

New research has given us more than a glimpse into the extraordinary world of Europe's elusive billionaires, including the real estate that really makes them tick.

Just shy of US$3 trillion of the world's private wealth is held in owner-occupied residential properties, says a new report by Wealth-X and the Sotheby’s International Realty.

There are now 2,325 billionaires in the world - 7% up on last year and more than ever before - worth $7.3 trillion between them (12% up on last year); that's 4% of the world's total wealth.

The average billionaire - worth £1.79 billion, married with 2.1 children - spends just 3% of his/her wealth on residential property. That £53.

The richest 0.003% of the world population (200,000 people) - owns 3% of the world's total real estate value (worth around US$ 5.

In the first part of Candy & Candy's latest GPS Report, Savills' Director of World Research Yolande Barnes looks at where the rich are buying for fun, and what is driving the very top-end of the international…

The global UHNW population is bigger than ever, with 199,235 individuals holding a combined wealth of US$27.8 trillion, according to a report by UBS and Wealth X.