Miami, Lagos and Hong Kong were the star performers of 2012, according to the Lonres International House Price Growth Comparison, each seeing values soar by over 25%.

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.

The British Columbia Government in Canada has rubber-stamped a 15% levy on foreign buyers of Vancouver property, in a bid to thwart spiralling house prices - but it's given the industry just eight days'…