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

Last weekend at Acker Merrall & Condit’s first Hong Kong auction of 2009, a 1928 Krug set a new world record for the most expensive bottle of Champagne sold at auction.

The 75cl bottle, from the Krug Collection range (the library collection of the renowned Reims Champagne house), fetched 164,560 Hong Kong dollars ($21,100 USD) after several rounds of fierce bidding.

The record was previously held by a Methuselah (6 litre bottle) of Louis Roederer, Cristal Brut 1990, Millenium 2000 that sold in the US for US$17,625 in December 2005.

Skyloft Penthouse in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood has become the most expensive condominium ever sold in downtown Manhattan.

Conceived by James Carpenter Design Associates, the modern duplex loft with distinctive glass constructions sits on top of a building dating from the 1920s and offers panoramic views of the city from the 14th floor.

The interior of the 145 Hudson Street loft is the work of Roger Marvel Architects and is meant to bring together the inside and outside spaces, for instance through the presence of glass doors leading onto terraces.