By Michael Krieger: Two months ago I published a piece titled, Luxury London Home Sales Plunge 26% – Has this Mega Real Estate Bubble Finally Burst?. I wrote:
It appears the music may have finally stopped for one of the world’s largest luxury real estate bubbles: London.Now we see the following from Bloomberg:
It’s well known that foreign oligarchs love London real estate as a means to launder funds, typically “earned” by soaking their host countries dry via corruption and fraud. This has caused absurd and irrational spikes in high-end residential real estate in the English capital, as well as a flood of new construction.
With emerging markets now completely collapsing, the seemingly endless flood of foreign money is drying up, and with it, London real estate.
So has the London real estate bubble popped? Probably.
London’s most expensive homes and apartments have slumped in value as the government’s stamp duty sales tax damps demand.