Have you ever wandered around a city and marvelled at how pretty it’s homes were? The housing experts at Homedit.com surveyed 4,839 people, providing them with images of traditional houses from 20 different cities across the globe renowned for their residential architecture, to reveal which cities have the most beautiful homes in the world.
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From Italy to Colombia and everywhere in-between, here are ten cities with some of the world’s most picturesque homes.
1. Birgu, Malta
Birgu is crowned the city with the most beautiful houses. With its origin dating back to Medieval times and considered the oldest of The Three Cities, according to 79% of people, houses in this area are the most irresistible.
2. Bibury, England
Known for its honey-coloured 17th-century stone cottages, this typical Cotswolds village is full of beautiful, quaint British architecture.
With its charming and traditional countryside homes it is no surprise that Tuscan houses have been voted among the most beautiful in the world.
4. Ghent, Belgium
In a city filled with 15th-century architectural monuments, Ghent houses are considered some of the most aesthetic in the world.
5. Visby, Sweden
On the Swedish Island of Gotland, Visby places as the city with the fifth most beautiful homes and it’s so easy to see why.
6. Mykonos, Greece
The Cycladic architecture allows homes to benefit from natural light and reduces sun absorption, whilst also maintaining their beautiful exteriors. Striking blue and white exteriors punctuated rusted with pretty flowers and bright doorways, makes wandering around Mykonos a treat.
7. London, England
England ranks in the top 10 again, as London places seventh with respondents loving the pretty residential buildings.
8. San Francisco, USA
Made famous by numerous Hollywood films, the hilly streets of San Fran are home to some of the prettiest houses in the country.
9. Cartenga, Colombia
This port city located on the Caribbean coast is home to cobbled laneways, Colonial architecture and colourful homes and buildings dating back to the 16th century.
10. Colmar, France
Storybook cottages perched on canals in the prettiest of colours, Colmar in France features some of the world’s most beautiful homes, medieval and Renaissance buildings.
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1. Rome, Italy. At number one you voted Rome as the most beautiful city in the world. With its thousand-year-old buildings such as the Forum Romanum or the Colosseum, beautiful piazzas and world-class art – not to mention Vatican City – we are certainly not surprised.
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Cap Ferrat Real Estate. More than 200,000 euros per square meter, its the shocking price of the most beautiful homes of this peninsula of the French Riviera.
1. Buckingham Palace | London, UK. Though Buckingham Palace is technically a Crown property, it is at the top of the world's most expensive houses report. The house comprises 775 rooms, 188 staff rooms, including 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 92 offices, 78 bathrooms, and 19 staterooms.
Sweden. The stunning Scandinavian nation of Sweden is known for surreal forests, coastal islands, glittering lakes and glacial mountains. It is also known for being home to the most beautiful women in the world.
Paris has been voted the most beautiful city in the world in a new ranking. Travel website Flight Network compiled the list of 50 cities by surveying more than 1,000 travel writers and agencies around the world. The French capital came top, followed by New York in second place and London in third.
Apparently, all the hotties hang out in Charleston, S.C. According to a survey conducted by Travel + Leisure magazine, the southern city is home to the most attractive people in America. The prettiest populaces tend to live in places that are either sun-kissed, like Honolulu, or active and athletic, like Denver.
Switzerland. Switzerland, officially called the Swiss Confederation, is a small country in Central Europe made up of 16,000 square miles of glacier-carved Alps, lakes and valleys.
The Chartwell Estate, located in Beverly Hills, California, is owned by the late head of Univision, Jerry Perenchi. Built in 1933, the French neoclassical home encompasses 25,000 square feet of land. It is situated on a 10-acre expanse of manicured lawns and gardens.
After Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia were the least affordable countries overall in the study which looked at the U.S., Canada, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. This chart shows the places where it's hardest to afford a home (2023).
Homeownership statistics by race show that the highest rates of homeownership are held by White households. Although homeownership rates for both Asian and Hispanic homeowners are above or around 50%, respectively, the rate for Black homeownership remains lower at just above 43%.
The hottest housing markets include those markets in North Carolina, Colorado and Texas that were also popular during the pandemic, including Raleigh and Durham, Denver and Austin. Markets to watch that improved the most between November and December 2022 include Portland, Oregon, Richmond, Virginia, and St. Louis.
According to "Travel + Leisure", the most beautiful village in the world is in the South of France! Gordes. Built on the foothills of the Monts of Vaucluse, facing the Luberon, Gordes is one of the most well-known hilltop villages in the region, and one of the most beautiful in France.
With its brightly painted houses set against a deep blue sea, the ancient village of Manarola on the Italian Riviera is not only the most colorful place in the world according to the Uswitch study, but it is also the subject of many online searches.
Who is the owner of the biggest house in the world ? Istana Nurul Iman Palace, the official residence of the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, is the largest house in the world, spread over 2.15 million square feet.
57th Street (world's most expensive street according to Business Insider) Central Park South (world's third most expensive street) Park Avenue (world's fourth most expensive street) 5th Avenue (world's seventh most expensive street)
The average price of the most expensive neighborhoods in every U.S. state is $5,249,542, but America's most expensive neighborhood—Manalapan, Fla.,—far surpasses that at a whopping average house price of $39,761,000.
In general, the most expensive areas to live were Hawaii, Alaska, the Northeast, and the West Coast. The least expensive areas were the Midwest and Southern states. MERIC derives the cost of living index for each state by averaging the indices of participating cities and metropolitan areas in that state.
Detroit, Michigan. Hundreds of incredible architects made Detroit's downtown core and its skylines one of the most recognizable in the US. Detroit also has some of the best-preserved buildings country-wide. You'll see Art Deco masterpieces, Italian Renaissance buildings, and post-modern skyscrapers.
Shanghai. Shanghai is known for its modern architecture. The Jin Mao Tower (pictured) and Shanghai World Financial Centre are 2 of Asia's tallest buildings. The Shanghai Grand Theater, architect Arata Isozaki's Himalayas Centre and Paul Andreu-designed Oriental Art Centre are all reasons why this city made our list.
Rising skyscrapers, flashing neon signs, contemporary architecture, and bustling streets filled with the newest technology set the scene in one of the world's most modern cities.
The ten states with the lowest cost of living are Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Mississippi is the state with the lowest cost of living in the US, with a cost of living index of 85.
With a shortage of 978,000 homes, California had the nation's biggest shortfall in 2019. The number of cities with a housing surplus decreased to 140 metro areas in 2019, down from 212 in 2012.
The Chartwell Estate, located in Beverly Hills, California, is owned by the late head of Univision, Jerry Perenchi. Built in 1933, the French neoclassical home encompasses 25,000 square feet of land. It is situated on a 10-acre expanse of manicured lawns and gardens.
The hottest housing markets include those markets in North Carolina, Colorado and Texas that were also popular during the pandemic, including Raleigh and Durham, Denver and Austin. Markets to watch that improved the most between November and December 2022 include Portland, Oregon, Richmond, Virginia, and St.
When opulent mansions come to mind, one automatically thinks of Los Angeles, the Hamptons or Miami. However, a new study found that Utah is home to the three cities in the U.S. with the highest proportion of mansions.
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