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    Ultra luxury apartments are usually vacant most of the time, because the owners live elsewhere and only use that property for money laundering.

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      Just expropriate the building and turn them into communal living spaces; e.g. the USSR did that after the revolution with all the fancy aristocratic- and capitalist-owned buildings

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      not money laundering, gambling. secure a loan with the property as collateral, put that $ into the stock market.

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      and only use that property for money laundering.

      I’ve always suspected that ultra-expensive apartments in London might be mostly for money laundering. Like, i give you a ton of cocaine, and i don’t give you money for that; Instead, i buy one of your luxury apartments in London for $150m (70 m² apartment btw).