In contrast, a prestige office building in Beijing costs $952 a square meter, according to Langdon & Seah, a project management consultancy, in Hong Kong.
(The company's name refers to the amount of solar energy, in watts, that hits a square meter of the earth's atmosphere).
The most recent data released by Statistics Finland showed an average price per square meter of 2,887 euros (about $381 a square foot) in Helsinki, versus 1,500 euros a square meter (about $198 a square foot) elsewhere in Finland.
He says that apartments in the central neighborhood of Palermo in Buenos Aires cost $1,700 to $3,000 a square meter ($158 to $279 a square foot), and that in Recoleta, another popular area, apartments sell for $2,500 to $5,000 a square meter ($232 to $465 a square foot).
In the city center, renovated homes cost $750 to $800 a square meter; those in need of updating are much cheaper: $100 to $400 a square meter, said Mathieu Guillory, director of Colonial Ecuador, a company in Quito that helps foreigners buy property.
New properties in Nabq start at $880 a square meter ($82 a square foot), Mr. Burns said, adding that those in better-established spots like Na'ama Bay in Sharm el Sheik cost as much as $1,400 a square meter ($130 a square foot).
The highest prices in 2011, seen in the Westend, reached 6,700 euros a square meter, Mr. Holger said.
The average price of property in Beausoleil is 6,000 per square meter, or about $740 per square foot, compared with 30,000 a square meter in Monaco.
New homes in Miraflores sell for $2,000 a square meter ($186 a square foot, at 10.7639 square feet to the square meter).
Prices in Tokyo, home to a 10th of Japan's population, increased for a third year, surging 17percenttoto 570,000 yen a square meter in 2006.
