For highly prestigious properties, valuation measures such as price per square metre are only an approximation.
Its oligarchs own prestigious properties in London, Courchevel and the Cote d'Azur.
Canal houses are the most sought-after and prestigious properties in this city.
Suntory, the whiskey producer, acquired Château Lagrange in Bordeaux in 1983 and has investments in several other prestigious properties in that region.
It holds controlling stakes in several publicly traded companies, including Brookfield Office Properties, which was spun off from the parent in 1997 and owns such prestigious properties as the World Financial Center towers.
"Both the Plaza Hotel in New York and the Grosvenor House Hotel in London are both extremely prestigious properties in very attractive markets," said Sudeep Jain, executive vice president of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.
It has prestigious properties such as the Casino de Deauville on the Normandy coast, which inspired Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale", and several popular new casinos.
Among its most prestigious properties are the Prudential Center in Boston, Embarcadero Center in San Francisco and, in New York, the General Motors building on Fifth Avenue, 601 Lexington Avenue (the former Citigroup Center) and the Times Square Tower.
The Queen has lived in some of Britain's most prestigious properties during her reign, but how much would this have cost her if she had been paying rent throughout this time?
IN this age of prosperity for the upper echelons of Bordeaux, where the grand chateaux all seem flush with cash, it can be hard to conceive of a time when even prestigious properties were money-losing propositions.
