According to property consultant Knight Frank, global housing markets continue to display healthy price growth in late 2023, despite the record rise in interest rates since late 2021. Across our basket of world cities, average prices only experienced a decline on a quarterly basis in the final quarter of 2022, after which prices have risen by 2.7%.
Based on Knight Frank's latest Global House Price Index, average annual price growth slowed across a cohort of world cities in Q2 2023, falling to 1.7% from 3.2% in Q1 of 2023.
Global house price growth ticked up to 3% in Q2 of 2023, up from 2.9% in the previous quarter. About a third of markets saw prices decline during the most recent three months, narrowing from four in ten over the past year.
According to ING, high interest rates and soaring building costs have drastically reduced the demand for new buildings in Europe.