Knight Frank (KF) noted that its index for prime residential property (i.e. the top 5% in terms of traded prices) in Tokyo rose by 9.8% y-o-y in 2Q15. The index had risen by 2.7% since the beginning of 2015 and fell by 5.8% in 2Q15. Tokyo’s y-o-y rise was the fifth largest of the 35 cities for which KF published data. Tokyo was in 11^th place in KF’s ranking of the 40 most important cities for UNHWIs worldwide in 2015, which appeared in its Global Cities survey early this year.

Source : August 2015/KF/Tokyo/RES