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A Hong Kong businessman has sold a parking space in the city for $969,000, making it the most expensive parking space in the world.
The space is in The Center, one of the tallest buildings in Hong Kong. It was sold by Johnny Cheung Shun-yee, one of 10 people who bought the building for $5 billion in 2018. He did not say who had bought the parking space, but told the South China Morning Post that they owned an office in the building.
Finished in 1998, The Center has over 1,200 square meters of shopping space and more than 110,000 square meters of office space, but just 402 parking spaces.
The South China Morning Post reports that the average price of a parking space in The Center is $765,000. In August, Cheung sold two of his other parking spaces for a total of $1.6 million.
The parking space is just 12.5 square meters, meaning it cost about $77,500 per square meter. That is more than three times the average price for space in a home in Hong Kong – and homes in Hong Kong have been the most expensive in the world for the last nine years. In fact, the price of parking in Hong Kong has been rising even faster than the price of housing.
According to a report by real estate company CBRE, the average cost of a home in Hong Kong is $1.2 million, or about $22,500 per square meter. In the next most expensive city, Singapore, it's about $875,000, or $11,500 per square meter.
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香港房價居高不下，連停車位的價碼都不凡。香港一名商人以969,000美元賣出一個停車位，使其成為全世界最昂貴的車位。該停車位座落於香港最高樓之一的中環中心大樓。 這個車位是由Johnny Cheung Shun-yee賣出，他是在2018年，以50億美元買下這棟大樓的10人中的其中一位富豪。 他並沒有透露停車位的買主是誰，但他向《南華早報》表示他們在這棟大樓內擁有一間辦公室。香港房價在近九年來一直是全世界最高的，而香港停車位的價格上漲的速度甚至比房價還快
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