The most expensive streets in the world

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Location, location and location!

 

The streets were ranked on the basis of average price per square metre. Rises in price include currency fluctuations. Take a read.

 

1. Pollock?s Path, The Peak, Hong Kong - Average price per square metre: $120,000 (HK$930,670), Price change year on year: +10%, Neighbours: movie star Stephen Chow, HSBC top brass.

 

2. Kensington Palace Gardens, London, UK - Average price per square metre: $107,000 (?69,900), Price change year on year: +2%, Neighbours: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (and new Prince George), Lakshmi Mittal, Bernie Ecclestone?s daughter Tamara.

 

3. Avenue Princesse Grace, Monaco - Average price per square metre: $86,000 (?65,000), Price change year on year: +5%, Neighbours: Andrea Bocelli, Roger Moore, Lewis Hamilton, Helena Christensen.

 

4. Boulevard du G?n?ral de Gaulle, Cap Ferrat, France - Average price per square metre: $79,000 (?60,000), Price change year on year: -5%, Neighbours: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie; David Niven and Paul Allen reportedly own holiday homes, as did Charlie Chaplin.

 

5. Paterson Hill, Singapore - Average price per square metre: $42,500 (SGD$53,800), Price change year on year: +6.5%, Neighbours: Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and former Miss Singapore beauty queen Rachel Kum.

 

6. Chemin de Ruth, Geneva, Switzerland - Average price per square metre: $37,000 (CHF 30,000), Price change year on year: -5%, Neighbours: France?s Peugeot family, former French tennis player Henri Leconte and former French alpine-skier Jean-Claude Killy.

 

7. Romazzino Hill, Sardinia - Average price per square metre: $32,900 (?25,000), Price change year on year: stable, Neighbours: Saudi Arabian politician Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Ural steel tycoon Alexei Mordashov, Qatar royal family members.

 

8. Ostozhenka, Moscow, Russia - Average price per square metre: $29,000, Price change year on year: +3.6%, Record price: $48 million, Neighbours: Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.

 

9. Fifth Avenue, New York, US - Average price per square metre: $28,000, Price change year on year: +5.4%, Neighbours: Bill Murray, Tom Brokaw.

 

10. Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France - Average price per square metre: $26,000 (?20,000), Price change year on year: -3%, Neighbours: Canadian Embassy, Marlene Dietrich (before her death in 1992).