Economy

Mapping the Global Super-Rich

The favored locales of the 0.002 percent.
Homes in Kensington, one of London's most expensive neighborhoods.Flickr/Klovovi

It’s not just that the one percent is on the rise: The locational prerogatives of the global super-rich are changing the face of some of the world’s greatest cities. Foreign buyers are, for example, buying up huge chunks of central London and Manhattan, helping to push those cities' already astronomical housing prices even higher.

But outside of these two leading superstar cities, what are the favored locales of the global elite?