Liam Bailey doesn’t write opinion. He writes the numbers that shape everyone else’s opinion — tracking global wealth creation, prime residential markets, and the branded residence pipeline that Edition Insider covers every week.
His work doesn’t speculate — it measures. For over a decade, Bailey has led Knight Frank’s global research department, building the most widely cited intelligence stream in luxury real estate: tracking wealth creation, prime residential markets, and the branded residence pipeline across more than 80 countries. Where capital is moving, and why, is a question his annual publications answer before most people in the industry have even formed the question.
The Wealth Report is the intelligence document the global luxury real estate industry organises itself around. Now in its 20th edition, it tracks the UHNWI population across more than 200 countries, maps prime residential price performance across 100 markets, and monitors where private capital is moving before most operators have registered the shift. Bailey has edited every edition for over a decade — the voice behind the numbers that move the market.
The Wealth Report: Twenty editions of annual intelligence on global wealth creation, prime residential markets, and UHNWI investment behaviour — the single most cited private wealth research publication in the luxury real estate industry, now tracking 713,626 ultra-high-net-worth individuals across more than 200 countries.
The Residence Report, 2025: Knight Frank’s inaugural annual survey of the global branded residences sector — nearly 80 luxury brands assessed across 83 countries, with a pipeline forecast that will define how developers, investors, and operators approach the category through the end of the decade and beyond.
Knight Frank Research: Six flagship publications covering global wealth, prime residential markets, branded residences, luxury investment, and super-prime sales — the intelligence department that sets the agenda for the industry’s most significant capital decisions, one annual report at a time.
Market thesis: Bailey’s research proved what the industry suspected but couldn’t quantify: that branded residences aren’t a niche product within luxury real estate — they’re the category’s fastest-growing and most structurally defensible segment. From 169 schemes in 2011 to a forecast 1,019 by 2030, the pipeline doesn’t lie. The centre of gravity is moving east. Hotel brands still dominate, but non-hotel entrants — Bentley, Aston Martin, Porsche — are arriving faster than anyone predicted. The operators and developers who read the data early are already positioned. Those who didn’t are now catching up.
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