Buyers have gained negotiating power, with sellers outnumbering buyers in the housing market.

Luxury real estate has become a global asset class, and the gap between winners and losers is staggering: Dubai prices are up 155% in five years while Beijing shed 8.4% in just one year. Where private wealth parks itself next is one of the clearest signals of where capital is heading.

UBS has ranked 23 major housing markets by bubble risk, and Zurich and Tokyo sit alone at the top — where prices have outpaced incomes and rents for years, leaving buyers dangerously exposed to any shift in interest rates. In most of these cities, owning even a modest apartment already eats up more than 40% of a high earner's gross pay. The calm in global headline numbers masks a market quietly sorting itself into winners and a few very fragile outliers.

A pisos.com report shows 38.2% of Spanish housing searches target three-bedroom homes, with most demand focused under 200,000 euros.

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In August, the national entry point for luxury housing decreased to $1,200,005, representing a 4.0% decline from July and the same month last year, which marks the 29th consecutive month of annual dec...