WHYTT Magazine featured insights from Sotheby's International Realty on the trends shaping the high-end property market, drawn from the brand's 2025 Mid-Year Luxury Outlook Report.
The report traces the sector's resilience through recent global uncertainty, noting that prime residential prices worldwide rose by an average of 4.2% annually over the past decade, according to Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2024. It identifies experiential living, generational "passion investments," and sustainability as the three forces increasingly shaping luxury demand.
"What's driving today's high-end market is the feeling a home delivers." — Sotheby's International Realty
In the U.S. specifically, the brand's sales volume growth reached 9.4% in 2024, compared with 5.2% industry-wide, according to Philip A. White Jr., President and CEO of Sotheby's International Realty.
Correctly priced properties continued to sell quickly through the report's outlook period, with easing election-year uncertainty and constrained luxury inventory both cited as supporting factors for continued price growth.
The feature included Linamia (ex. Grand Estate) in Corfu among its examples of the trend in practice.
Full Corfu pricing and demand data are available in the Intelligence Hub.