What piece of property/house has been owned by one individual/family for the longest amount of time?

Question

Would it be an estate belonging to royalty?...like Buckingham palace?

Answer 1

There have been changes in the linage of Monarchys, otherwise I would go for the Summer Palace or Forbidden City in China. Would you settle for a 1400 year old family business?

Late in sixth century Japan, Shigemitsu Kongō, a carpenter who had travelled from the Korean kingdom of Paekche, started work on the ****ennoji Temple for the recently adopted religion of Buddism. He gave his work a thousand year guarante and his company which became Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. delivered on that guarantee until a year ago. The original Temple still stands though like granfather's axe it had a few new handles and heads over the years.

Kongō's family business thrived to become the oldest family business in the world, continuously building and maintaining Buddist Temples, until a downturn in temple revenues forced its acquisition about a year ago. It was bought out by the Takamatsu Corporation, a civil engineering outfit whose boast is that should Godzilla take another stroll through Tokyo they'll be up to the challengs of rebuilding before the dust settles. I believe that Kongō continues its work.

When Masakazu Kongō, the 40th Kongō to lead the company, was asked about reasons for its longevity he put it down to flexibility.

Answer 2

There's an estate in England. The family had owned it since the early middle ages. Rumor has ot that a boy in the middle ages stole the deeds from a pie he was supposed to take to the king. I think their last name starts with an H.

Answer 3

Assuming we're only talking buildings, and not counting government buildings of countries subject to occupation or revolution, I'd bet it'd be a Catholic church someplace in France or Northern Spain.

Answer 4

I would say George Washington's estate

Answer 5

I'd definitely go with an answer like that, some house that has been with monarchies. That answer sounds most logical to me.