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Central Park Tower’s 3-Floor Penthouse $250,000,000
.RC.:
Has Dave outgrown the Altium building already. I suppose he will need more room for the next idea. Solar airways. The plane pulls solar panels behind it. That is what the new secret pic24f powered project is? :)
hans:
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--- Quote from: Homer J Simpson on May 08, 2023, 08:44:55 pm ---A tour of what is currently the most expensive property for sale in the world.
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Which people who could afford it mostly don't actually live in it. The uber-rich property market is essentially an inter-generational wealth transfer mechanism.
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Also, the uber-rich don't look at a house property as "I want to live in NYC because my family/job is here" -- but rather, "I need a place in NYC because logistically its nice for whatever business I need to attend in the region and/or overseas on travel". Plus it being a neat tax/investment vehicle.
But if its for living, honestly for this money I wonder where the private helicopter pad is. There are plenty of big airports around Manhattan, but none of them are in Manhattan. Is an uber-rich person really going to deal with "bruh was late to meeting because rush hour traffic (or any traffic in Manhattan)"? If their time is worth ten of thousands $/hr, then no: if they can afford a private jet with its own chef onboard, then they can also afford to have them flown onto their house.
Rurally this is a lot easier and makes way more sense IMO. There are plenty of airfield residential communities for the rich (that also happen to be aviation geeks), and private airstrip houses for the uber-rich. And I don't mean an airstrip for a Cessna Caravan, but more a house like John Travolta. If it's somewhere rural it also blends in a lot better with nature and becomes a lot more cozy.
Oh and for John Travolta I guess it needs to be rural, because I'm not sure anyone would want to have such a plane take off on a daily basis unless they are avgeek as well. Those turbojet (not turbofan) engines are so incredibly loud it exceed all modern noise ordinances.
But hey, as an average Joe these kinds of homes are far out of reach. Beggars can't be choosers (-:
BravoV:
Its all about money laundering , thats all, nothing else.
tom66:
--- Quote from: BravoV on May 10, 2023, 02:44:43 pm ---Its all about money laundering , thats all, nothing else.
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How? You'd still need to prove the source of the funds.
If anything it's more about a safe haven for investment - Chinese investors in particular were limited in the cash they could take out of the country, but they could buy an unlimited amount of property in their own name. This became a common way to extract wealth into 'friendlier' nations.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Infraviolet on May 10, 2023, 05:20:59 am ---Ridiculous, you could get a literal proper mansion with much more space, in some region of countryside which was beautiful for a tiny fraction of this. I think large country estates with included mansions in the UK are much less than a tenth of this.
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The UK countryside is a heck of a commute to Wall St.
Property prices in city centres are notoriously high. However, if you look in more detail you'll find homes near well connected commuter transport (e.g. metro stations) are considerably more expensive than those with a longer commute time. Convenience has huge monetary value.
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