When the world's priciest apartment turns out to be a phantom sale you know there are cracks in the top-end real estate sector. And cracks there are. Even before a $57m sale fell through in Hong Kong, developers of luxury homes in Moscow were slashing prices and Shanghai was emitting a loud popping sound. In New York, transactions are running at around half peak levels. Even Monaco, haven of the mega-rich, is no longer a buyers' paradise: purchases are 40 per cent below last year's levels as tax refugees rent rather than buy.
當世界最高價公寓的買賣變成泡影時，你就知道，高階房地產市場出現了裂痕。裂痕確實存在。在香港那套5700萬美元的房子買賣告吹之前，莫斯科的豪華住宅開發商就已經在大幅降價了，而在上海，樓市泡沫也發出了響亮的破裂聲。紐約房市交易量僅爲頂峯水準的一半左右。就連超級富翁的避稅港摩納哥也不再是買家的天堂：銷量比去年減少了40%，避稅者寧願租房而不願買房。
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