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According to UBS, real estate prices should continue to rise in 2022, albeit less sharply than in 2021. The risk of a price collapse remains manageable, the bank writes in its online magazine. UBS continues to expect low mortgage rates, both for short-term money market and long-term fixed-rate mortgages.

In its report on the price development of rental flats in the ten largest Swiss cities, Comparis shows that rental prices for residential properties have continued to rise over the past five years. As expected, the cities of Zurich and Geneva are the frontrunners. In smaller cities, prices have stagnated or even fallen in some cases.

In its newest edition the online magazine luxury defined presents a variety of high end properties such as an elegant pied-à-terre in London’s Mayfair, a lavish five-bedroom apartment above Bangkok’s River of Kings, or a magnificent Louis XVIII-style château on 100 acres in France’s Loire Valley. Here, you find out what and, perhaps even more importantly, where $5 million gets you.