Is St. Peter's Basillica where the conclave is?

No idea of the financial value, but to answer re the chapel, it's not in the basilica itself.

You've got a precocious kid, princesspupule.
5 yrs. old and already interested on real state value!

The trick would be to get them to sell it...

The cost of St Peters Basilica was a permeant split in the western Christian Church. That's the building, and its on going cost of construction, that tick off Martin Luther.

Here's a plan view that shows that chapel as separate from the main basilica - (see lower map)
http://www.big-italy-map.co.uk/map-of-vatican-city-map.htm

Speaking of the conclave, would anyone like to hazard a guess as to which language was spoken at the conclave? I'm curious to know but can't ask because I do not have any cardinals in my small circle of friends.

Hmmm ... Latin? Italian? Other?

I got the impression from some of what I've read in the last few days that the sessions themselves are fairly quiet, however tense the quiet. There are rules, I think, re types of speech allowed. It's the inbetween times that get busy, probably in many languages. I also got the impression that much of the session is ritualized in latin.

Guessing, of course!

(Hi, Aa)

All you say makes sense, ossobuco, and believe your impression is quite probably the case.

What I was really wondering was which language was used by the person presiding over the conclave (that would have been Cardinal Ratzinger, as Dean) when making general announcements to the entire group. The lingua franca isn't always French. Latin would fit the ceremonial things (Extra omnia), but perhaps not Latin for "Please disguise your handwriting on the ballot".

(Hi right back, ossobuco)