The Cost of Prime: London tops prime new-build price league

"Asian cities are rising up the rankings," says Knight Frank, as seven of the top ten cities in its Prime Global Cities Index are now based in the Asia Pacific region.

Knight Frank's Prime Global Rental Index rose by 1.6% in the final quarter of 2012, taking the annual increase to 5.1% and putting the index 20% above its post-financial crisis low in Q2 2009.

Measuring the performance of luxury resi markets in fifteen world cities over a one and five-year period (2010 to Q3 2015), this handy map from Knight Frank and EY has exposed some key macro trends at-a-glance.