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Completion, conversion, listing, sale, foreclosure, brand change. Facts in sequence, each with a date, a place and a source. Narrative history belongs to the Luxury Hospitality Library and is cited here, never rewritten.

A party is named only when four conditions hold: it is a public figure or a company; the transaction is a matter of public record or has been acknowledged; two independent published sources agree; and the record concerns a completed transaction rather than present occupancy. Everything else reads buyer not established. Prices are carried as asked, reported or registered, and the record says which — a registry entry outranks any newspaper.

Waldorf Astoria Residences New York

New York City · New York · USA · North America

1993 · Landmark designation — Designated an official New York City landmark, alongside the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge. The designation is what later obliged the restoration team to undo earlier alterations.

2014-10-06 · Sale — Hilton agrees to sell to Anbang. THE MOST EXPENSIVE SINGLE-HOTEL TRANSACTION IN US HISTORY at the time: the previous benchmark, the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas at USD 1.73bn, included a casino. Hilton retained a 100-YEAR management agreement — the longest the register holds. Bloomberg reported the deal was assembled in about a month by Eastdil Secured for Hilton and Blackstone.

2015-02 · Sale — Closing. Hilton redeployed the proceeds under a Section 1031 like-kind exchange into five landmark hotels including Waldorf Astoria Orlando and Casa Marina, Key West.

2017 · Conversion — Closed for conversion. 1,400 guest rooms became 375 condominium residences and 375 hotel suites. Reported at about USD 2bn and eight years, initially delayed by roughly five; total outlay with the purchase reported at more than USD 4bn.

2018 · Brand change — Ownership passed to the Chinese state-backed Dajia Insurance Group after Anbang's chief executive was prosecuted for fraud. Recorded as an ownership event, not a sale: the register does not describe the transfer as a transaction it cannot see the instrument for.

2025 · Completion — Hotel and residences reopened after the eight-year restoration.

2026-02 · Listing — Owners preparing to bring the 375-room hotel to market through Eastdil Secured, months after reopening. Price reported as not less than USD 1bn — roughly half the 2014 purchase before USD 2bn of works. Recorded as a listing, not a sale: an intention, not a delivery.

One Hyde Park

London · Greater London · United Kingdom · Europe

2005 · Sale — Site acquired from Land Securities by the CPC Group and Al Thani joint venture.

2011 · Sale — Flat A, the top three floors, bought unfinished through the offshore company Water Property Holdings; the buyer had purchased the penthouse in cash in 2007 and was reported to be spending up to a further £60m to complete it. THE PRICE IS REPORTED THREE WAYS — £135.4m from Land Registry documents, £136m and £137m in later reporting — and the register carries all three rather than the roundest. The party is named because three independent published sources agree and the sale is on the Land Registry: the four-part test passes here where it failed at Nujuma, and the difference is evidence, not prominence.

2014-05 · Sale — A 16,000 sq ft penthouse in block A sold unfurnished, a UK record at the time. The buyer was described only as Eastern European and the developer declined to name them or confirm the price. CPC Group said the flat could be worth £160–175m furnished. Nick Candy, to Reuters: boom-time prices, more expensive than we have ever seen, and some prices probably unrealistic and not sustainable.

2019-05 · Sale — A two-floor apartment in block B, then Britain's most expensive home, surpassing the £140m paid for the Park Place estate near Henley-on-Thames. Buyers are two Guernsey-registered companies; the register names the companies and stops there.

2021-04 · Listing — Offered for sale by the developer at £175m following what he described as a surge in demand.

2025-06 · Listing — A penthouse on the 10th and 11th floors listed at £175m through Sotheby's — reported as the most expensive flat ever brought to market in the UK. Held on a leasehold with 981 years remaining. Four years at the same asking price, and the register records the repetition.

Koolau Ranch, Kauai

Kauai · Hawaii · USA · North America

2014–2015 · Sale — About 700 acres in two parcels on the north shore — Pila'a Beach and the Kahu'aina Plantation.

2019-06 · Sale — Four kuleana parcels inside the estate taken to title at auction by a Zuckerberg-backed relative after bidding was reopened at a court hearing — more than double the amount bid in March. The parcels were bought by a Portuguese immigrant in 1882 and passed to seven children when he died intestate in 1928.

2021-03 · Sale — 595.4 acres at Lepeuli fronting Larsen's Beach, bought from the non-profit Waioli Corporation. The beach access road was excluded and remains public.

2021-11 · Sale — 110 acres including a former sugar plantation and the Ka Loko reservoir, whose dam broke in 2006 releasing 400 million gallons and killing seven people. Repair of the dam is a legal obligation attaching to the land.

2025 · Sale — 962 acres of ranchland inland of the compound, bought through a Hawaiian-sounding LLC. Reported as Zuckerberg's largest single purchase; the register names the reported principal only where a source states it and records the vehicle as unnamed here. Total holding passes 2,300 acres.

Villa Certosa

Porto Rotondo · Sassari · Sardinia · Costa Smeralda · Italy · Europe

1980 · Sale — Bought from Flavio Carboni, owner of La Voce Sarda, as Villa Monastero and renamed.

2021 · Valuation — Valued at €260m.

2025 · Listing — Marketed by Sotheby's International Realty with Knight Castle. One source close to the sale said the asking price was above what the family expected to achieve — a rare published admission that an ask is a position rather than a value.

2026-06 · Sale — Binding offer accepted — THIRTY PER CENT BELOW THE ASK and thirty-five per cent above the 2021 valuation. Fininvest confirmed a binding offer from a foreign buyer without naming the party or the price; the buyer is named by press reporting and by the reference works, and is a company rather than an individual.

2026-06 · Valuation — The seller's book value at disposal, with Italian press estimating about €56m of state tax on the gain. Carried because a book value and a tax charge make a reported consideration legible in a way no headline does.

220 Central Park South

New York City · New York · USA · North America

2015 · Listing — Contract signed while the tower was under construction; reported at the time that the unit could ask USD 150–175m. Four years between contract and closing.

2019-01-23 · Sale — A four-floor penthouse on the 50th to 53rd floors — THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOME EVER SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES, a record that still stands. More than double the previous New York record of USD 100.47m set at One57 in 2014. Griffin told the Wall Street Journal it was a place to stay when he is in town. Days earlier he had paid about £95m for a house overlooking St James's Park in London.

2019-06 · Sale — Two units bought through an LLC — USD 82.5m on the 60th floor and USD 75m on the 61st — later reported by CNBC as the Alibaba co-founder. At the time the second-largest sale in New York and the third-largest in the United States, both records set in this one building.

15 Gough Hill Road

Hong Kong · Hong Kong Island · Hong Kong SAR · Asia

2016 · Sale — About HKD 228,000 per saleable sq ft, then the highest price per foot recorded in Hong Kong.

2023 · Foreclosure — Seized by the lender.

2025-08 · Sale — Sold at a 62.4% fall from the 2016 price — a paper loss of HKD 1,310,000,000. The register's largest recorded decline.

Atlantis The Royal Residences

Dubai · Dubai · UAE · Middle East

2021-09 · Listing — A five-bedroom triplex of about 25,000 sq ft listed as the most expensive property on the Dubai market, sold shell and core.

2022-05 · Sale — All 230 residences other than the super-penthouse recorded as sold.

2022-08 · Sale — The super-penthouse sold — ASKED AED 180m, PAID AED 163m, a gap of 9.4% between listing and sale on the city's headline lot. One of the few records here where both the ask and the achieved price are published for the same unit.

Villa Les Cèdres

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat · Alpes-Maritimes · Côte d'Azur · France · Europe

1904 · Sale — Bought by the King of the Belgians, who installed Blanche Delacroix, later Baroness de Vaughan; she sold it on to Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle of Grand Marnier.

2016 · Listing — Offered by Gruppo Campari and described at the time as the most expensive property in the world.

2019 · Sale — Sold by Gruppo Campari — ROUGHLY 80% BELOW THE 2016 ASKING PRICE, the largest ask-to-sale gap in this register. The buyer's holding company described it as a long-term investment. The same party holds Flat A at One Hyde Park.

Romazzino Compound (Villa Yamani)

Porto Cervo / Costa Smeralda · Sassari · Sardinia · Costa Smeralda · Italy · Europe

1974 · Sale — Bought from Henry Ford II by the Saudi oil minister, whose name the compound has carried ever since.

2025-03 · Sale — ITALY'S MOST EXPENSIVE RECORDED RESIDENTIAL SALE, advised by Italy Sotheby's International Realty. The buyer is named by Italian press as the chief executive of Block.one. THE REGISTER'S OWN DATE IS CORRECTED HERE: it had carried June 2025, which was the date of the Forbes article and not of the transaction.

2025-06 · Sale — The most expensive residential sale ever recorded in Italy, per Sotheby's. Seller's estate: the former Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani.

35 Belgrave Square

Belgravia · Greater London · United Kingdom · Europe

2025-01 · Sale — CORRECTED 6.09.2026. This register recorded a press report of £38m for a Wilton Crescent house with a Kinnerton Street mews, January 2025. HM Land Registry shows 4 WILTON CRESCENT AT £34,000,000 ON 31 JANUARY 2025. The two may be the same transaction described differently — the press figure may include the linked mews, or a different composition of title — or two separate sales. WITHOUT COMPARING ADDRESSES, TITLES AND WHAT WAS ACTUALLY TRANSFERRED THE REGISTER WILL NEITHER MERGE THEM NOR TREAT THEM AS TWO. Registered sales on the same crescent: 4 Wilton Crescent £34m (31.01.2025); 11 Wilton Crescent £33m (31.07.2025); 40 Wilton Crescent £13.88m (13.01.2026).

2026 · Sale — CONTEXT EVENT, not this house: a Belgravia townhouse reported at about £35.5m in spring 2026. THE PARTY IS NAMED BY ONE SOURCE ONLY and the four-part test therefore fails on independence; the register records the report and the failure together rather than either suppressing the name or adopting it.

2026-01 · Sale — The largest recorded Belgravia house sale in the period surveyed.

18–19 Kensington Palace Gardens

Kensington Palace Gardens · Greater London · United Kingdom · Europe

1990s · Conversion — Numbers 18 and 19 united into a single private house.

2001 · Sale — Bought by the Formula One proprietor.

2004-06-30 · Sale — THE REGISTERED PRICE IS £57,145,967 FOR 18–19 PLUS THREE MEWS HOUSES. The world's press reported £70m / USD 128m and called it the most expensive house purchase ever recorded; the error is roughly 22% and has been repeated for two decades. The register carries the registered figure as the price and the reported figure as a report, under Verification Standard §5b.

Indian Creek assemblage

Indian Creek Village · Florida · South Florida · USA · North America

2023 · Sale — First of three adjoining houses.

2023–2024 · Sale — Second of three.

2024 · Sale — Third of three. TOTAL REPORTED USD 237m across the sequence — a figure that exists only when the three are read together, which is why the register carries assemblage as a type.

El Pescador Estate, Malibu

Malibu · California · Southern California coast · USA · North America

2012 · Sale — Acquired by the founder of Oakley. Held about twelve years.

2024-06 · Sale — THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOME SALE IN CALIFORNIAN HISTORY, off-market. Seller James Jannard, named by three sources; the buyer is not identified in any of them and the register names none. A gain of USD 135m over roughly twelve years on the reported purchase price.

17 Belgrave Square

Belgravia · Greater London · United Kingdom · Europe

2024 · Sale — Acquired for reconstruction.

2026 · Listing — Re-offered after reconstruction at about three times the purchase price, completion stated for summer 2026. An ask, not a sale.

Cherry Hill

Wentworth Estate · Surrey · Surrey and Berkshire estate belt · United Kingdom · Europe

2024-03 · Listing — Offered at £24m.

2026 · Listing — Re-offered at £15m — a 37.5% reduction in the ask over roughly two years. Not a sale and not evidence of a fall in value.

The Holme, Regent's Park

London · Greater London · United Kingdom · Europe

2025-01 · Sale — Reported completed sale.

2026-06 · Sale — The Evening Standard described the house as understood to have sold; The Times described a purchase as approaching. NO REGISTRY CONFIRMATION OBTAINED. The gap to the 2025 figure is not a return — the two are different classes of fact.

Villa De Benedetti, Suvretta

Suvretta · Grisons · Engadine · Switzerland · Europe

2017–2025 · Listing — Listed at CHF 52m and unsold for eight years.

2025 · Sale — THE ASK BECAME THE CLOSE AFTER EIGHT YEARS, and no different number was published. The register records that the two figures were never printed apart rather than assuming they were equal.

Mercedes-Benz Places | Binghatti City

Dubai · Dubai · UAE · Middle East

2026-09-05Price change · Sales status: 9 of 11 offered reported sold—PR-T-00002

2026-09-05 · Price change — Sales-status observation, not a transaction. Single first-hand source; the published villa count is 19, the visit reports 11. Both figures held until V1 resolves them.

Mr. C Residences Jumeirah

Dubai · Dubai · UAE · Middle East

2023Sale · AED 650,000,000Not recordedPR-T-00004

2023 · Sale — Entire crown of Mr. C Residences Jumeirah — a triplex, two duplexes and five full-floor penthouses across 11 floors — reported sold. Described at the time as Dubai's largest single real-estate deal of 2023. Price as reported; second independent source required.

Porsche Design Tower

Sunny Isles Beach · South Florida · USA · North America

2017Completion—PR-T-00005

2017 · Completion — Porsche Design Tower completed and occupied.

Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York

New York City · New York · USA · North America

2014-10Sale · USD 230,000,000Sunshine Insurance GroupPR-T-00013

2014-10 · Sale — Sunshine Insurance Group agreed to buy the Baccarat Hotel New York for USD 230m — announced the day before the Waldorf deal. TWO NEW YORK HOTELS THE REGISTER HOLDS WERE BOUGHT BY TWO CHINESE INSURERS IN ONE WEEK. Chinese investment in foreign commercial property rose 46% to USD 11.2bn in 2014 per JLL.

Tour Odéon

Monaco · Côte d'Azur · Monaco · Europe

2019Listing · USD 387,000,000–400,000,000 as reported—PR-T-00020

2019 · Listing — The Sky Penthouse offered at a figure reported between USD 387m and USD 400m and described as the most expensive apartment ever listed. No completed sale is documented; the register carries the listing and the spread.

Mareterra

Monaco · Côte d'Azur · Monaco · Europe

2024-12CompletionSAM L'Anse du PortierPR-T-00021

2024-12 · Completion — Delivery of the €2bn reclamation: about 15 acres added to the coastline, masterplanned with Renzo Piano and Norman Foster.

Mareterra — Le Renzo

Monaco · Côte d'Azur · Monaco · Europe

2026Price change · USD 550,000,000 as reported valuationBuyer not establishedPR-T-00022

2026 · Price change — An apartment reported at about USD 550m (€500m) as potentially the world's most expensive residential property. A Monaco agency reviewing the coverage states that no public document confirms a transaction price and that the figures appear to be per-square-metre projections. THE REGISTER RECORDS A REPORTED VALUATION, NOT A SALE, AND NAMES NO PARTY — no consulted source names a buyer.

The Legacy, Mid-Levels West

Hong Kong · Hong Kong Island · Hong Kong SAR · Asia

2025Sale · HKD 880,000,000Buyer not established · Company transfer — shares rather than titlePR-T-00036

2025 · Sale — A duplex of 8,310 sq ft at HKD 105,896 per sq ft — the record for a single residential unit in Hong Kong. The buyer took an adjacent 2,773 sq ft flat for HKD 210,000,000 and was shielded by a company transfer.

Mount Nicholson

Hong Kong · Hong Kong Island · Hong Kong SAR · Asia

2025Sale · HKD 609,000,000Buyer not establishedPR-T-00037

2025 · Sale — A Phase 2 penthouse of 4,217 sq ft at HKD 144,415 per sq ft — the Asian record for price per square foot on the primary market.

Opus Hong Kong

Hong Kong · Hong Kong Island · Hong Kong SAR · Asia

—Sale · HKD 512,000,000Buyer not establishedPR-T-00038

— · Sale — A twelfth-floor unit of 5,444 sq ft at HKD 94,048 per sq ft.

CITIC Sino Bay

Shenzhen · Guangdong · China · Asia

2025-12-28Listing · RMB 10,000,000,000+ in two hours—PR-T-00039

2025-12-28 · Listing — Launch day: more than RMB 10bn taken in two hours, 80% of 156 units — a national record for sales velocity. A further 78 units sold out in thirty minutes on 23.05.2026.

COFCO Seascape Yiho

Shanghai · Shanghai · China · Asia

2025Sale · RMB 84,000,000Buyer not establishedPR-T-00040

2025 · Sale — A tenth-floor apartment of 35 sqm at RMB 220,000 per sqm — a Shanghai record, displacing Tomson Yipin's RMB 190,000.

The Lana Residences, Dorchester Collection Dubai

Dubai · Dubai · UAE · Middle East

2025–2026Sale · AED 36,087,500 average of four recorded salesBuyer not established · Openly marketedPR-T-00041

2025–2026 · Sale — FOUR apartments recorded sold in twelve months at an average of AED 36,087,500, against asking prices averaging AED 57,178,067 — an official average 37% below the average ask. Recorded from the government transaction registry rather than from listings, the strongest price evidence available to this register outside a deed.

Providence House, Chelsea

London · Greater London · United Kingdom · Europe

2026-04-02Sale · GBP 275,000,000+ per the Financial Times · GBP 265,000,000+ per The TimesSunil SetiyaPR-T-00060

2026-04-02 · Sale — TWO CREDIBLE PAPERS DISAGREE BY TEN MILLION POUNDS. The register carries both and adopts neither as a registry value; no Land Registry entry was seen. The buyer is named by the Financial Times.

Sherbourne House

Sunningdale · Berkshire · Surrey and Berkshire estate belt · United Kingdom · Europe

2025-08-19Sale · GBP 18,300,000 registeredBuyer not establishedPR-T-00063

2025-08-19 · Sale — A REGISTERED PRICE — the sum in the transfer deed on the completion date it states. The largest registered house price the register holds in the British estate-villages.

Villa La Leopolda

Villefranche-sur-Mer · Alpes-Maritimes · Côte d'Azur · France · Europe

2008Offer · EUR 390,000,000 offered, not completedMikhail Prokhorov · Quietly marketed — off-market listPR-T-00067

2008 · Offer — AN OFFER, NOT A SALE. The deal collapsed and the deposit was forfeited. The figure has circulated for eighteen years as though it were the Riviera's record price; no transfer took place and the register records the offer, the collapse and the forfeiture together.

Le Palais Bulles

Théoule-sur-Mer · Alpes-Maritimes · Côte d'Azur · France · Europe

2017–2026Listing · EUR 300,000,000+ as reported— · Openly marketedPR-T-00068

2017–2026 · Listing — Repeatedly offered above €300m and repeatedly unsold. A price a market has declined to meet for years is evidence about the ask, not about the house.

Lanai

Lanai · Hawaii · USA · North America

2012Sale · USD 300,000,000 as reportedLarry EllisonPR-T-00072

2012 · Sale — About 98% of the island of Lanai. The register holds no other transaction in which the subject is a county.

Tarpon Island

Palm Beach · Florida · South Florida · USA · North America

2024Sale · USD 150,000,000+ as reportedBuyer not establishedPR-T-00076

2024 · Sale — A private island inside Lake Worth with a tennis court and a marina.

Tadao Ando Compound, Paradise Cove

Paradise Cove · California · Southern California coast · USA · North America

2023Sale · USD 200,000,000 as reportedBeyoncé and Jay-ZPR-T-00077

2023 · Sale — A concrete house by Tadao Ando at Paradise Cove, reported as the largest Californian residential transaction of its year. The register names the parties as reported and marks the test failed on independence until a second source is added.

Château de Bellerive

Collonge-Bellerive · Geneva · Lake Geneva · Switzerland · Europe

2019Sale · CHF 126,000,000–127,000,000 combined across three transactionsDinara KulibayevaPR-T-00078

2019 · Sale — AN ASSEMBLAGE. Three separate 2019 transactions on an estate associated with the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; the combined figure is given as about CHF 126m and as about CHF 127m after the final parcel. The register carries both and the structure.

Domaine de Hauterive

Cologny · Geneva · Lake Geneva · Switzerland · Europe

2021Sale · CHF 56,840,000Jacob SafraPR-T-00079

2021 · Sale — About 1.8 hectares at 18 Quai de Cologny, once the home of Gustave Ador. A major underground redevelopment was later approved.

Hôtel Particulier, Avenue Foch

Avenue Foch · Paris · France · Europe

2023Sale · EUR 69,000,000Buyer not establishedPR-T-00082

2023 · Sale — THE LARGEST CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN RESIDENTIAL TRANSACTION THE REGISTER HOLDS. Buyer reported only as an Asian client acting through a local developer.

Blumenthal-Montmorency Hôtel Particulier

Avenue Foch · Paris · France · Europe

2023Sale · EUR 46,500,000Mahdi al-Tajir · Openly marketedPR-T-00083

2023 · Sale — Sold after FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE MARKET to a French management company for renovation and resale. The seller is named; the buyer is a company and the register names it as such.

Bosco Verticale

Porta Nuova · Milan · Italy · Europe

2025-03Sale · EUR 5,600,000 (USD 6,100,000)Buyer not established · Openly marketedPR-T-00084

2025-03 · Sale — A three-bedroom in the vertical forest. Milan is Italy's most expensive market, ahead of Florence, Bologna and Rome.