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Prime property price growth in key cities around the world slowed in the second half of 2018 to just 0.4% but overall increased by 2.3% across 2018, the latest international index shows. The strongest growth was 9% in Berlin, followed by 7.9% in Shanghai, 7.7% in Singapore, 7.3% in Hong Kong, 6.9% in San Francisco, […] More
Property prices around the world are rising but overall the rate of growth continues to moderate, with values up 4.3% in the 12 months to the end of 2018, the latest global index shows. This was the lowest annual rate of growth recorded by Knight Frank’s global house price index since the third quarter of […] More
London is still the world’s top destination for investment in commercial real estate despite ongoing uncertainty about Brexit, well above both Manhattan and Paris, the next two biggest markets, new research shows. Some £16.2 billion was invested in central London’s commercial offices in 2018 compared with £14.3 billion in Manhattan, £12.1 billion in Paris and […] More
The affordable housing gap reached some $740 billion globally in 2018 with Amsterdam, Auckland and Hong Kong amongst the least affordable places to buy a home. The figures from international real estate firm Knight Frank, which measures the difference between house prices and income, also shows that Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto and Vancouver […] More
The strongest annual price growth in key cities around the world in the third quarter of 2018 was in Xi’an in China with values up by 20%, the latest global index shows. Overall average prices have increased by 4.5% in the 150 cities tracked by the global residential cities index from international real estate firm […] More
