Ultra-prime residential property markets closed the year with a surge in blockbuster transactions, even as annual momentum cooled modestly from mid-year highs, underscoring a bifurcated global luxury housing landscape shaped by tax policy, cross-border capital flows and shifting investor sentiment.
Hong Kong's stock market continues to serve as an early signal for movements in the city's residential property sector, with equity gains typically preceding changes in home prices by just over two months, according to a new analysis from Jones Lang LaSalle.
The global data center industry is entering an era of expansion unlike anything it has seen before, driven by surging demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing while avoiding the excesses that typically accompany rapid growth.
Global hotel performance remained largely stagnant over the past year, with modest pricing gains offset by declining occupancy. Year-to-date revenue per available room (RevPAR) rose 0.2% through August 2025, according to STR, as a 1.0% increase in average daily rate was outweighed by a 0.8% drop in occupancy.