Italian buyers spent an average of 4.4 million pounds ($7.3 million) and favored the... Read More
Italy, which fell into a triple-dip recession in the second quarter, accounted for 6.7 percent of all homes sold in the 13 neighborhoods that Knight Frank LLP defines as prime central London, the broker said in an e-mail today. France was second as euro-area investors accounted for 14.5 percent of purchases, the most in the period since 2011. Russia led the group a year ago, followed by the United Arab Emirates.
The European Central Bank’s monetary-policy easing “is driving more euro-zone residents to search for yield abroad,” Goldman Sachs analysts including
New York-based chief currency strategist Robin Brooks wrote in a note last week. Yields for homes in prime central London rose in July for the first time since April 2011 as more people opted to rent on concerns that home taxes may rise if the Conservative Party-led government loses next year’s elections, Knight Frank said on Aug. 11.
“Recent economic data shows there are still fragilities in the euro zone as it recovers from the financial crisis,” Tom Bill, head of London residential research at Knight Frank, said in today’s statement. “Fears over the euro zone’s future have abated, but our data suggests the safe-haven appeal of prime central London property is alive and well.”
Russia fell to third place this year. French buyers accounted for 4.1 percent of all all homes sold.
Italian buyers spent an average of 4.4 million pounds ($7.3 million) and favored the Knightsbridge, Chelsea and South Kensington districts, Knight Frank said.
Home values in prime central London rose 8.1 percent in the 12 months through June, Knight Frank said on July 8. The prices of apartments and houses in all of London jumped 26 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, the biggest gain in 27 years, Nationwide Building Society said July
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