Friday, April 13, 2007

Glad I'm not moving to Paris...

Having an interest in things urban and having lived in downtown Vancouver, I have to admit I find the following statistics fascinating, especially from a western Canadian perspective. You can read the whole story here.

TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE DOWNTOWN MARKETS
- Paris $1051/sq.ft.
- Moscow $688/sq.ft
- Seoul $630/sq.ft
- Vancouver $577/sq.ft
- London, U.K. $532/sq.ft
- Calgary $500/sq.ft
- Athens $375/sq.ft
- New York City $375/sq.ft
- Tokyo, $325/sq.ft
- Edmonton $322/sq.ft

St. John's and Quebec City had the lowest and second-lowest per-square-foot downtown prices of all 31 cities surveyed, at $55 and $93 respectively. The two lowest per-square-foot prices for international cities were Istanbul, Turkey and Sydney, Australia, at $94 and $105 respectively.

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