A New Blog: Raising the Roof A blog about buying, selling - and just looking at - properties around the world. |  | 
Jonathan Drake/Bloomberg News | By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP When the master developer of Sentosa Cove, an exclusive oceanfront residential community here, started selling land to individual builders in 2003, the first plot went for 350 Singapore dollars per square foot. In July, during the most recent land auction for a condominium site, the price was 1,799 dollars a square foot. |  | By ALEX FREW MCMILLAN With the U.S. market in a definite slump over the subprime crisis and prices showing signs of decline in Britain, France, Spain and Italy, property owners and developers in Asia are wondering if such problems will appear there.
| | By BETH CARNEY After years of high house price growth in much of Europe, the market has started to cool, and some analysts say the countries that have experienced the most dramatic price rises could see downturns in 2008.
| | By JON GORVETT While fallout from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis is wobbling many housing markets, at the top of the property scale it seems the world's big spenders have been blissfully unaffected. When it comes to luxury, residential real estate has never had it so good.
| | By JEAN RAFFERTY A visit to the Paris home of the fashion designer Kenzo Takada, is like stepping through a looking glass into another world, a trip to the Far East without the jet lag.
| | By ALLISON SCHAEFERS The strength of Hawaii's international pull has propelled its luxury real estate sales ahead of last year's -- partly due to the continued weakness of the dollar -- and increased speculative development in the market.
| | By ERIC SYLVERS Much like the oft-publicized Ryanair effect, the debut of high-speed rail service generally leads to increases in real estate values -- and Italy is looking forward to it.
| | By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY Moscow's most unusual private home is on the market again: a four-story, 342-square-meter house that resembles a huge Fabergé egg, the elaborate jeweled creations associated with the imperial family.
| | By KEVIN BRASS The terrace of Rachelle and Ben Smith's home is one of the few places on Earth with views of both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. On clear days, they sit there and watch the ships line up to enter the Panama Canal.
|  Asia | | | Europe | | | | | World | | | |  | | | Real Estate News | | |  | | By NANCY BETH JACKSON The street address is 350 Fifth Avenue but all a postal carrier or taxi driver needs is the name: Empire State Building. | | By BETH CARNEY The New West End Co. and local government have identified as part of a £40 million, or $82.8 million, plan to spruce up the central shopping district at a time when, in other areas of the city, developers are building huge malls. | Asia | | | Europe | | | World | | |  Special Series
Buying Abroad
Bulgaria sales booming.
Risk and reward in China In Spain, take your time Malaysia invites foreigners Shopping advice for Israel Philippines is a catch, if you can New Zealand: Tougher to buy a piece of the 'long white cloud' Swiss move to lower barriers to foreigners Buying in Hong Kong and Macao: Price is the only bar Thailand: Learning to make the numbers work | | | | Advertisement 
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