France’s prestige property market crossed a new threshold in 2025, reaching €39.3 billion in transactions according to Belles Demeures’ annual study. The figure challenges a long-standing assumption: Paris no longer dominates the French luxury map on its own. Across…

A property sale can sometimes tell more than a transaction. In Aachen, Germany, a 17th-century private mansion has just been listed in complete discretion, through Sotheby’s International Realty. Listed as a historic monument, the house has stayed in the same family…