This Is Where The Uber Rich Are Buying (and Selling) Second Homes

This Is Where The Uber Rich Are Buying (and Selling) Second Homes

There are over 552,000 multi-millionaires, and 87% of them own a second home. The wealth analysts at New World Wealth (NWW) have compiled their annual report on second home buying by multi-millionaires, those with over US$10 million in assets. Old money cites (NY, Hong Kong, etc…) top the list for the most secondary homes held by this segment of buyers, but some interesting new cities are experiencing rapid growth.

London and New York City Top The List

Traditionally wealthy cities like London, New York City, and Hong Kong topped the list for second homes for these affluent buyers. London had the most second homes at 19,500, a decrease of 2,000 from 2015. Followed by New York with 18,400 second homes, an increase of 200 homes from 2015. In third was Hong Kong with 15,000, a 200 home increase from 2015.

Source: NWW.

Biggest Winners of Millionaire Secondary Homeowners

Nice weather may have attracted second home buyers in 2016, since Sydney, Australia and Miami, USA topped the list for growth. Miami had 5,000 second homes held by rich folks, a 29.95% increase from the year before. Sydney had 3,500 second homes held by this segment, a 29% increase from the year prior.

Biggest Losers of Millionaire Secondary Homeowners

Political instability, one of the reasons wealthy families are migrating, may be driving wealthy second homeowners away. Paris was the biggest loser, with 4,800 second homes – a 23% decline from the year before. Rio had 3,600 second homes, a 16% decline from the year before. In third was London’s 19,500 second homes, a decline of a 9.3%. A previous report from NWW had stated that wealthy homeowners are the first to move at signs of political unrest, since they have the means to do so.

Old money cities have been used by millionaires keeping secondary homes for centuries, but new cities are in for quite the surprise. The uber rich appearing in relatively smaller markets like Sydney, and Miami has sent local property prices soaring. This isn’t a problem if these buyers are helping up and coming cities like Sydney turn into the next New York City – a city where wealthy immigrants bring and start industries. Not so great if they’re turning them into the next Monaco, where there’s only seasonal business catering to the super rich.

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  • Michael Lewyn 8 years ago

    I am surprised by how few rich second-home buyers there are. In New York, there are only 18,000- about 0.6 percent of the city’s housing units. And some notoriously expensive cities (such as Vancouver) aren’t even on your list, indicating that uber-rich buyers simply aren’t a factor in those markets.

  • dana 8 years ago

    hahaha… not surprise Toronto and Vancouver are not even mentioned… Canada does not have big economy and people here do not make a lot of money, but what we have here is a speculators and money laundering real estate Mecca (it is to buy and sell, but not to keep wealth).

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