Almost half the floors in James Packer's $2 billion Barangaroo hotel-casino complex have been earmarked for apartments, including a two-storey penthouse that could approach the $100 million-mark.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-advent-of-the-100-million-apartment-packers-hotel-revealed-20150313-143d5s.html

If one of Packer's premium apartments did indeed score a $100 million sale, it would be almost double the $57.5 million paid in Perth's Mosman Park – Australia's most expensive property – and four times as costly as the country's highest apartment sale.

To put it into context, here are Sydney's top five apartment sales:

1. $25 million – The Bondi Pacific, Bondi Beach
2. $21 million – The Bondi Pacific, Bondi Beach
3. $17 million – The Residence, Hyde Park
4. $16.8 million – Bennelong, Sydney
5. $13 million – Bennelong, Sydney

http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/james-packers-mooted-100-million-penthouse-would-smash-all-price-records-20150314-143y20.html

Tax Breaks For Oligarchs: The $100 Million NY Apartment With A Property Tax Rate Of 0.017%

The most disingenuous and sickening type of status quo defender is the person who blames the recent expansion in wealth inequality on a “lack of skilled workers.” Such a person is either a liar or an imbecile. There’s not much wiggle room there. Either this person doesn’t know that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE) lifts asset prices while doing very little for the economy, or he or she is choosing to ignore it. Either this person doesn’t understand that the poor and lower middle class don’t own much in the way of stocks or bonds, or he or she is choosing to ignore it.

Since QE has been far and away the most important variable impacting the economy and markets since the crisis, ignoring its impact on wealth inequality is simply unforgivable. Yet, it’s more than that. Much more. Many of the polices existing in these United States not only encourage foreign oligarch money laundering into luxury skyscrapers that remain empty, but our society seems to go out of its way to ensure they have to pay as little in property tax as possible. Indeed, tax polices don’t benefit the rich, they benefit the super rich.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-12/tax-breaks-oligarchs-100-million-ny-apartment-property-tax-rate-0017

How NYC does not tax the super-rich | New York Post

New York City’s method of assessing property values is so out of whack that the buyer of the most expensive apartment ever sold — a $100 million duplex overlooking Central Park — pays taxes as if the place were worth just $6.5 million.

With controversial tax breaks granted to the One57 condo tower, the total property tax bill for the spectacular penthouse is just $17,268, an effective rate of 0.017 percent of its sale price.

By contrast, the owner of a nearby condo at 224 E. 52nd St. that recently sold for $1.02 million is paying an effective rate of 2.38 percent, or $24,279, according to data compiled for The Post by the Revaluate.com real-estate information website.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/09/new-yorks-super-wealthy-pay-less-on-property-taxes/

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