Hong Kong has retained its position as the world\u2019s most expensive residential property market despite a 10 per cent price decline from pre-pandemic levels, according to a new Deutsche Bank report warning that housing affordability continues to weigh on living standards.<\/p>\n
The investment bank lowered the city\u2019s quality-of-life ranking to 55th this year, down from 48th in 2025. Even so, the financial hub has maintained its appeal to international investors and high earners when factoring in residents\u2019 purchasing power and overall livability, according to the 10th edition of the \u201cMapping the World\u2019s Prices\u201d report, co-authored by Jim Reid and Galina Pozdnyakova.<\/p>\n
\u201cHong Kong remains a global magnet for talent and capital,\u201d the analysts said. \u201cThe richest cities are not always the easiest places to live.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ranking assessed residential property purchase prices across 69 cities worldwide. Prices were converted into US dollars and measured by the purchase costs of flats, with comparisons made against 2016 levels and the pre-Covid-19 baseline from 2019.<\/p>\n
The property metric is an indicator that the bank uses to compile its quality-of-life index, which also factors in purchasing power, safety, healthcare, property-price-to-income ratios, commute times, pollution levels and the climate.<\/p>\n
Deutsche Bank attributed Hong Kong\u2019s drop in that index to \u201cextremely high costs\u201d related to property, pollution and long commuting times, as elevated housing costs have eroded the benefits of relatively high salaries in one of the world\u2019s leading financial centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong has retained its position as the world\u2019s most expensive residential property market despite a 10 per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21213],"tags":[23445,21214,43430,90,40998,43429,627,43428,2799],"class_list":["post-54296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-deutsche-bank","tag-budapest","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-geneva","tag-hong-kong","tag-jim-reid","tag-seoul","tag-singapore","tag-us-dollars","tag-zurich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}