In New York city, a condominium was sold in a foreclosure auction for $33.2 million (5,500-square-foot apartment with 20-foot ceilings and views of Central Park), the highest price ($6,000 a square foot) paid for a Manhattan apartment this year 2010.

The world's tallest building is Burj Khalifa, which is 828m (2,716ft) high. Clad in 28,000 glass panels, the tower, which is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has 160 floors and more than 500,000 sq m of space for offices and flats. The building has 1,044 luxury apartments, 49 floors of offices and a 160-room Armani-branded hotel. Around 12,000 people are expected to live and work in the tower.

In Hong Kong, a $56.5 million dollars apartment (or $439 million Hong Kong dollars) was sold to a Chinese businessman from China.

Office rents in Central district, Hong Kong ($11.31/sf), are among the highest in the world, comparable only with those in Tokyo ($9.80/sf), and well ahead of even London and New York.

07620, the zip code for Alpine, NJ, is the most expensive place to live in the US; however, it gets really weird, the median household income in that area is only $128,287 - 500 most expensive places to live in the US.

In the U.S. every three months, 250,000 new families enter into foreclosure

43% of American households spend more than they earn each year

52% of employees live paycheck to paycheck (fdic.gov statistics)

Children of homeowners are likely to perform higher on education

2006 is the year of home prices peak

From 2007 to 2008 U.S. foreclosures nationwide increased 81.2%

California had the highest number of home in foreclosure in 2008: 523,624

Stockton, CA is the city that had the highest foreclosure rate in 2008: 9.5%

Los Angles, CA had the biggest price decline: 35.6%

The total number of home in foreclosure in 2008 is 2,330,483

Atlanta, GA has the lowest price-to-income ratio (most affordable): 3.8

Honolulu, HI, has the highest price-to-income ratio (least affordable): 10.8

Boston, MA had the smallest decline in home prices in 2008: 5.6%