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Though Verbier has the most expensive homes in the Alps, at around $24,168 per square meter (around 10% above the previous year’s level), St. Moritz, Zermatt and Gstaad are very close behind.

In good winters, she says, you can “admire the meter-high walls of snow around Zermatt and St. Moritz and on the Oberalp Pass, which is also the highest point of the journey,” she says.