"Westmount has always been an area in demand — it's a very high-end area," she said.
For the game's newest high-end area, called Ahn'Qiraj, they set up a system earlier this month that essentially requires most of each server's population, casual and hard-core, to work together to amass huge amounts of war materiel like bandages and metals before the gates to the dungeon will open.
"The activity has just not slowed as it has in some of the high-end areas.
Nina Naqvi, a Realtor at Century 21 in Old Westbury, said most brokers in high-end areas don't use the term "teardown" anymore.
The story is similar in cities like Phoenix and Orlando, Fla., where empty nesters can golf, attend cultural events and shop and dine in high-end areas.
As if there weren't enough technology startup accelerators already in Europe, yet another launched today with the hope of attracting 'cloud' based startups in the areas of Big Data, Machine Learning and other similarly high-end areas.
Despite the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, she says many areas have remained largely intact think the high-end areas of the University and garden districts–and thus in demand.
He added that houses in high-end areas, such as Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, are traditionally harder to flip.
Southern California includes many housing markets, from foreclosure belts like Lancaster and San Bernardino — where sale prices remain relatively cheap compared with rent — to high-end areas like San Marino and Newport Beach where seven-figure houses have bounced back from the crash but rents remain relatively modest.
In his area, prices, and therefore values, remain strong in high end residential areas with great schools, Mr. Stone said.
