Hong Kong’s Severn Road, a winding street of mansions and tony apartments, is still the priciest address on the planet.

For the second year running, Financial News has determined that properties on Severn Road cost more per square foot than those anywhere else.

Properties on Severn Road were valued at US$78,200 a square meter (about US$8,689 a square foot), up from US$70,000 in last year’s survey.

The most expensive streets in Britain can be found in South West London where the average price of a property is over five million pounds.

Parkside in Merton, just a short walk from Wimbledon’s All England Tennis Club, is named the most expensive residential street with an average price of £5,058,000.

More than half of the 20 most expensive streets in England and Wales are in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

New York City’s famed 5th Avenue is no longer the most expensive street to lease a retail store According to a new report from Colliers International.

The average annual rent on Manhattan’s luxury shopping destination fell 10.7 percent from a year earlier to $1,250 a square foot as of March.

In first place now is the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris with a two percent increase to $1,256 a square foot.

Avenue Princesse Grace is the most expensive street in the world to buy property, where $120,000 (€84,985) will purchase just one square metre of prime real estate, according to a survey by Wealth Bulletin.

Prime residential property on the top 10 most expensive streets in the world saw their overall value fall by 12% in the last year, the survey found, with European streets faring better than their US and emerging markets counterparts.

That compares with price falls of between 20% to 30% in mainstream property prices in London and New York over the same period.

The Wealth Bulletin (a Dow Jones site) has come up with a list of the 10 most expensive streets in the world. The survey revealed that the prices for the top homes in the best locations appear to have decoupled from the gloom and doom being felt in the wider property market.

If you want to live in the best accommodation in these streets you will need to be a billionaire, or not far behind !

Avenue Princess Grace in Monaco has been named at the top with a price tag of $190,000 per square metre. It is followed by Hong Kong’s Severn Road with a price of $121,000 per square metre (sq mt) at second and New York City’s Fifth Avenue at third place ($80,000 per sq mt).

Here is the complete list, with some sample property prices as tallied by Wealth Bulletin: