An outsize luxury apartment in one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest neighbourhoods has sold for 439 million Hong Kong dollars ($56,5 million).

The five-bedroom duplex suite, near the top of the skyscraper overlooking Victoria Harbor, measures 6,158 sq feet and has a garden of 340 sq feet.

Hong Kong luxury home prices and sales have jumped this year as low supply and ample liquidity drive demand for real estate.

A Rembrandt masterpiece is expected to fetch up to £25 million ($41 million) when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s on December 8, 2009.

The painting could break the record price for a Rembrandt, which currently stands at £19,800,000 paid for Portrait Of A Lady Aged 62, in December 2003.

The painting, titled “Portrait of a man, half-length, with his arms akimbo,” was painted in 1658 and has been unseen in public for nearly 40 years.

Sun Hung Kai Properties, the world’s largest developer by market value, raised the price of two penthouses in Hong Kong by 50 percent to a record HK$75,000 ($9,700) a square foot as demand surges for luxury apartments.

The units, situated on the 91st to 93rd floor of the 270-meter (886-feet) towers, will be offered for $38.5 million each.

They each have 4,000 square feet (372 square meters) on three floors, six bedrooms, an outdoor garden and a swimming pool.

A bride from China’s Jilin Province on Thursday dressed in world’s longest wedding gown (2,162-meter long), Xinhua agency said.

The groom, Zhao Peng, said he was actually inspired by the world’s record of the longest wedding dress made in Romania in April when he planned his wedding.

Zhao said initially his family strongly opposed this idea as his mother thought this idea was a waste of money, before he persuaded them.

Despite the global economic collapse, a luxury terrace house in Belgravia has gone on sale for a record £100 million ($150 million).

The six-story property in Belgravia, central London, has 20-foot ceilings, luxurious fixtures and more than 21,000 square feet of living space.

Along with Candy Spelling’s mansion, this white-stucco-fronted house at No. 10 Belgrave Square, owned by Lebanese developer Musa Salem, is now the most expensive home on the market in the world.

Showcased at the E-Marriage Fest wedding fair in Bucharest, this wedding gown with a train is 1,579 meters long (5,180 ft), which makes it the longest in the world.

The train of the wedding dress is studded with as many as 7,000 Swarovski crystals and it took designers 70 days to make it.

The wedding gown with the longest train in the world is priced at $5,200 and it will be sold at the festival through an auction. Romanian designer Oana Comanescu designed the gown. Via Javno