Five Years On: How have European house prices fared since Lehman Brothers?

It'll cost you five gold bars to buy a house in prime central London these days; five years ago, it would have cost ten.

On to the really big picture now, and Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index has recorded a 6.6% rise in average prices in the year to March, the highest rate of growth since Q2 2010.

"Appetite for risk" is the phrase of the day, cropping up today in both Knight Frank and CBRE research reports.