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Kate Everett-Allen

Head of European Residential Research

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Kate Everett-Allen is a noted expert in residential real estate. As Knight Frank's Head of European Residential Research, she analyses and reports on key residential market trends, offering insights that guide investors and industry professionals.

Widely quoted in global media, Kate conducts extensive research and data analysis to produce reports, podcasts, and webinars on luxury property markets and real estate investment trends. She also compiles the Home chapter of Knight Frank's flagship publication, The Wealth Report, investigating how wealth flows, policy shifts, and macroeconomics influence global prime property markets.

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Research Articles

2025 Outlook: European real estate and political shifts

Plus, the elections and key events that lie ahead

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Which city tops our European prime residential forecast for 2025?

Discover how key cities and resorts across the region are poised to perform in 2025.

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New energy rules for French homes in 2025

What holiday homeowners need to know and do

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Alpine Sentiment Survey: Understanding Motivations

The survey encompasses the views of over 730 high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) from across 13 countries, providing valuable insight into the motivations, preferences, budgets, and aspirations of prospective Alpine purchasers.

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The Ultimate Resort Guide: Altitude, Access, and Snow Quality

Your guide to how resorts compare on key factors like altitude, airport proximity, piste length, snow conditions, and more.

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Knight Frank Alpine Index: How Prime Ski Resort Prices Have Shifted Over the Past Year

We assess prime prices across leading Alpine resorts, examining how they compare and their performance over the past year

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Research Reports

Alpine Property Report

Knight Frank's Alpine Property Report, previously known as the Ski Property Report, evaluates current market trends in Europe's top alpine destinations, highlighting both property conditions and the growing appeal of these locations for…

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Global House Price Index

Knight Frank's Global House Price Index tracks the performance of over 50 mainstream national housing markets around the world using official data from Central Banks or National Statistic Offices in each country.

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Monaco Residential Market Insight

Knight Frank’s assessment of current market conditions in the Principality of Monaco

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European Lifestyle Report

Knight Frank’s deep dive into what's driving prime housing demand among wealthy expats in Europe: property trends, lifestyle, tax and policy shifts

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Edinburgh City Index

The Knight Frank Edinburgh City Index is a valuation-based index, compiled quarterly from valuations prepared by professional staff in Edinburgh. The index is based on the valuation of a comprehensive basket of properties based on sales…

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New York Insight

Knight Frank's New York Insight report analyses conditions within the city’s prime residential market. It highlights recent market performance, demand and supply trends and provides our outlook for the market.

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The Wealth Report

The Wealth Report is the ultimate guide to prime property markets, global wealth distribution, the threats and opportunities for wealth, commercial property investment opportunities, philanthropy and luxury spending trends.

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Global Prime Residential Forecast

Knight Frank's Prime Global Forecast Report sets out how we expect the world's top luxury housing markets to perform in the coming year, highlighting some of the key risks and opportunities that lie ahead.

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Florida Market Insight

Knight Frank's Florida Market Insight report assesses current market conditions across the state's prime market destinations. It highlights recent market performance, demand and supply trends and provides our outlook for the market.

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Paris residential focus

Knight Frank’s Paris focus report provides data-driven insight for second homeowners and purchasers, as well as lenders and investors.

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Provence residential focus

Knight Frank’s Provence focus report provides data-driven insight for second homeowners and purchasers, as well as lenders and investors.

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French Riviera residential focus

Knight Frank’s French Riviera focus report provides data-driven insight for second homeowners and purchasers, as well as lenders and investors.

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French Alps residential focus

Knight Frank’s French Alps focus report provides data-driven insight for second homeowners and purchasers, as well as lenders and investors.

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Algarve Insight Report

The report provides expert insight from our international network, highlights recent market performance, buyer demand and features a selection of prime properties being marketed by Knight Frank.

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Prime Scottish Index

The Knight Frank Prime Scottish Index is a valuation-based index, compiled quarterly from valuations prepared by professional staff across Scotland. The index is based on the valuation of a comprehensive basket of properties based on sales…

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Barbados Insight

Knight Frank's Barbados Insight report assesses current market conditions across the area's prime market destinations. It highlights recent market performance, demand and supply trends and provides our outlook for the market.

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Barcelona Residential Market Insight

Knight Frank's Barcelona Residential Market Insight report assesses current prime market conditions across the city. It highlights price and sales trends, demand and supply indicators and provides our outlook for the market

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Prime France Report

The Prime France Report provides a summary of prime market conditions across Knight Frank’s key second home destinations: Paris, The French Riviera, Provence, The French Alps and South West France.

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Monaco Insight Report

Knight Frank's Monaco Insight report assesses current market conditions across the principality’s prime markets. It highlights recent market performance, demand and supply trends and provides our outlook for the market.

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Prime Italy Report

The Prime Italy Report provides a summary of prime market conditions across Knight Frank’s key second home destinations: Tuscany, Lake Como, Venice and East Liguria.

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Los Angeles Focus

Knight Frank’s annual flagship publication, The Wealth Report 2022, is packed with data and insight on how wealth is influencing property markets globally. A new series of focus reports delves deeper into the data to explore what the…

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Blog Posts

Which resort leads our Ski Property Index?

Saint-Martin-de-Belleville leads the Knight Frank 2021 Ski Index with prices up 3.4% on an annual basis, it is one of only a few resorts to still offer development opportunities. Last year’s frontrunner, Val d’Isere now sits in second…

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Tuscany is back in the spotlight as Italian flat tax attracts new residents

Tuscany Insight 2019

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Why the Caribbean might be worth a closer look in 2019

Caribbean Prime Residential Market Insight

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Aspen cements its position as the premier ski destination in the US

Aspen Insight 2019 

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Global luxury house prices: performance in 2018 so far

Knight Frank’s unique analysis of the world’s top luxury residential markets highlights some emerging trends, says Kate Everett-Allen.

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Reviewing a decade of prime global residential trends

From safe haven flows to cooling measures and from QE stimulus to the normalisation of monetary policy, the performance of the world’s prime residential markets post the Global Financial Crisis has been far from homogenous, below we look at…

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A performance snapshot of key luxury property markets

In the first instalment of our new Data View column, International View invites you on a whistle-stop tour of the world’s key luxury property markets by Kate Everett-Allen.

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The Caribbean's road to recovery

Far from a homogenous market, the Caribbean residential sector, which extends across 7,000 islands and approximately 1 million square miles, has ebbed and flowed at different rates since the market downturn in 2007.

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Cities in North America buck global house price slowdown

The Global Residential Cities Index, which tracks the movement in mainstream house prices across 150 cities worldwide, has registered a decline in its annual rate of growth for three consecutive quarters. However, cities across the US and…

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Prime global cities: Ones to watch

Each year we ask our global research teams for their outlook for the year ahead, to help us assess the current landscape for prime residential purchasers, be they investors or owner-occupiers. Covering 13 cities from Vancouver to Sydney and…

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Prime global cities: Events to monitor in 2018 and beyond

Each year we ask our global research teams for their outlook for the year ahead, to help us assess the current landscape for prime residential purchasers, be they investors or owner-occupiers.

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Prime global cities: Measuring risk in 2018

Each year we ask our global research teams for their outlook for the year ahead, to help us assess the current landscape for prime residential purchasers, be they investors or owner-occupiers. Covering 13 cities from Vancouver to Sydney and…

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Prime global cities: Who's buying where?

Each year we ask our global research teams for their outlook for the year ahead, to help us assess the current landscape for prime residential purchasers, be they investors or owner-occupiers. Covering 13 cities from Vancouver to Sydney and…

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Paris leads our prime global residential forecast for 2018

The world’s top residential markets have seen waves of strong investment over the last decade. In the wake of the global financial crisis, gateway cities such as London, New York and Miami moved to the fore as investors ploughed funds into…

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How are ski resorts evolving?

Investment is key to both the performance of the local property market and resort's longevity.

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Chamonix leads the 2017 Alpine Property Index

France's Chamonix, which is widely-regarded as the most well equipped year-round resort in the Alps, has leapfrogged Val d'Isere and Gstaad this year to take the top spot in our annual price growth rankings. 

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Guangzhou leads luxury residential price index

Our Prime Global Cities Index, which tracks the movement of luxury residential prices across 41 cities around the world, climbed 4.2% in the year to September 2017, with the Chinese city of Guangzhou leading our annual rankings.

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Global urban house price index records slower growth

The index increased by 6.1% in the year to June 2017, down from 6.9% last quarter. 

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Vancouver: A year on from the foreign buyer tax how is the market performing?

Vancouver’s housing market has attracted global headlines in the last two years as mainstream prices accelerated by as much as 25% per annum. New measures aimed at improving affordability were introduced in 2016, including a new 15% tax for…

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How are Spain's prime markets faring?

Over the past five years Spain’s property market has undergone a radical transformation. While challenges persist, not least Brexit uncertainty, the country’s prime market now appeals to a broader mix of buyers, with investors taking…

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Iceland bucks trend as global house price growth moderates

Across the 55 countries tracked by our index, house prices rose by 5.6% on average (weighted by PPP) in the year to June 2017, down from 6.5% recorded last quarter.

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