This past Saturday, I showed a condo at Soho Street to two clients of mine: one was my friend Brad, and the other was me. You might think it was awkward or perhaps a conflict of interest that I took a client to see a condo that I was also interested in, but as Brad said himself, “We’ll just see who can count higher…”
The condo is priced at $688 per square foot – a price that I’m simply not willing to pay, and not going to allow my clients to pay.
But the following article and video about “London for the Super-Rich” makes this property on Soho Street look pathetic by comparison…
While housing prices in Canada may be getting less affordable, they still pale in comparison with those in cities such as New York, Tokyo and London.
Take the world’s most expensive apartments: One Hyde Park in London, England.
The least expensive apartment sells for slightly more than $10 million while the priciest goes for about $220 million. The average cost per square foot? Roughly $9,500.
The four buildings with their 86 apartments were officially opened to the public last week. According to the developers, the Candy brothers, 60 per cent of the apartments have already been sold.
However, the Daily Mail reported only two of the sales have actually been completed, both to investors in the project, while deposits have been made on a further 26.
Whoever ends up living there will do so in the height of luxury. The buildings feature a private cinema, 21-metre swimming pool, golf simulator, wine cellar, panic rooms and even a tunnel to the exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel nearby.
The builders used 15 different types of stone in the construction, including nearly $80 million worth of a special “sparkly” concrete.
The buildings were designed by Richard Rogers of architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Rogers is best known for designing the controversial Pompidou Centre in Paris, The Lloyd’s building in London and the much-maligned Millenium Dome, also in London.
Rogers’ inside-out style, featuring heating ducts and elevators prominently displayed, is set to come to Canada.
A design by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and by Adamson Associates Architects was the winner of the competition to rework the north building of St. Lawrence Market in downtown Toronto.
Whitney
at 5:55 pm
I was wondering what you thought about this new “Com Free” company that seems to be suddenly popping up everywhere…?
George
at 5:56 pm
Had they used just 10 different types of stone in the construction I would not have been interested…but they used 15! Sign me up.
xxx
at 12:03 am
If you paid 220 million for your apartment, would you want to share your building with rif-raf who own a 10 million apartment? 😉
Cassie
at 7:29 am
That is one EXPENSIVE condo, if you ask me! Enough said. I wonder if Las Vegas homes are as beautiful and expensive as this.
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at 4:19 am
Wow!!!! Absolutely gorgeous, thank you for sharing these.