Over the past few years, Londoners, from Shepherd’s Bush to Stratford, have been shocked by the house prices . Many potential buyers who had hoped that signs of a slowdown ,that emerged in the summer ,would continue, and so it has . But what exactly is a slowdown for a market that has been outperforming for the last […]
Insecurity slowed down prices in Kenya’s high-end real-estate market last year according to a report by property consultancy Knight Frank. The Africa Report 2015 says a spate of terrorist attacks in cities was one of the factors the 2014 prime property market was sluggish. An increase in the number of high-end properties that went up […]
The Reserve Bank of Australia is likely to keep cutting interest rates as the need to support the economy leaves policy makers willing to stoke a housing boom, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management. With debt yielding little or nothing after consumer price gains, investors will increasingly look to other asset classes such as property […]
An analysis of the German housing market based on purchasing power shows a sharp slowdown in price rises in wealthy, mid-sized cities in 2014, Fitch Ratings says. This follows the moderation in prices already seen for large, wealthy cities since 2011 and may reflect affordability pressure. This is in line with our view that the […]
The Greek property market has been facing a strong recession for five years, and national real estate prices have hit the lowest levels of the last decade. According to Taylor Scott International’s annual report for the year 2014, property values in Greece have dropped over 50% since the onset of the crisis. According market reports, […]
Asia topped the list for the fastest growth of ultra-high-net-worth individuals in 2014, reports the Chinese-language Beijing Times.The continent’s emergence has spurred demand for luxury properties in Asia and Australia, according to a report jointly compiled by Knight Frank, an international real estate consultancy, and BOC International, the international arm of Bank of China. Asia […]
Residential Trends While the recent strength of key urban residential markets has been supported by safe-haven and wealth flows the story is much broader. Cooling measures in key Asian centres continue to weigh on prices and transactional activity, most obviously in Hong Kong and Singapore but also in Beijing and Shanghai. Slightly over half our […]
New analysis, which has measured the collective worth of all homes in England, Wales and Scotland and cut it by local authority, has revealed which areas have seen rocketing house prices over the past decade and which have been untouched by the 2006/2007 housing market boom and, latterly, the recovery. More than half of Great […]
The world’s richest individuals are piling into properties in the world’s most expensive cities, pushing up prices of luxury homes. The value of luxury residential property across the world rose by an average of about two per cent last year, based on prices in the 100 locations covered by Knight Frank’s Prime International Residential Index […]
