Prices for high-end apartments and villas in Egypt are usually listed in US dollars.

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The company specializes in mixed-use complexes and towers that combine office and retail space with high-end apartments and green areas.

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Neither option is cheap, particularly for the high-end apartments.

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To accommodate the employees of Alibaba, Netease and Geely, three leading Chinese companies that are already headquartered there, developers are racing to build high-end apartments and condominiums like the Hyatt luxury residences.

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AvalonBay Communities owns high-end rental apartments, and during the housing boom they lost scads of customers to the homeownership craze.

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Amid a glut in high-end offices and apartments, it has cut prices and begun using outside sales agents.

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As you might expect, high end New York City apartments in condominiums and co-ops are largely purchased by Wall Streeters or foreigners seeking a safer haven for their cash than the banks in their own countries provide.

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The campaign was aimed primarily at the high end of the real-estate market by making it much more difficult to speculate in real estate by buying multiple apartments.

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