The world’s most bubbly housing markets

Swiss bank UBS has compiled an index of the most bubbly housing markets in the world. No prizes for guessing who comes top.

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House prices are bubbling over in several of the world's top cities, says UBS, which has created a Global Real Estate Bubble Indexto measure the potential for housing bubbles. Here are the five most at risk, with their index score. A score over 1.5 is a "bubble risk", while a score between 0.5 and 1.5 is "overvalued".

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Marina Gerner

Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.


Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.


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