根据中国官方媒体报道，北京市政府已经暂停本市最昂贵楼盘的销售，并对开发商是否涉嫌“暴利”展开调查。
上周，记者曾报道了这套位于北京西部的1000平米豪华顶层公寓。其售价逾3亿元人民币（合4620万美元），但是目前北京政府认定该楼盘开发商可能对潜在买家存在误导，同时也开始调查其纳税情况。
据媒体报道，该楼盘最昂贵公寓的售价从去年年中的每平方米10万元人民币左右，飙升至今年的每平米30万元人民币。
记者周二未能联系上该项目开发商予以置评，而详细介绍楼盘情况的销售网站则显示“正在维护中”。
情况要比最初显现的更为复杂。
根据中国媒体报道，豪华公寓所在地块过去属军队所有，而按照北京市政府的说法，这块地的立项性质是“国家重要科研项目综合用地”。
名为“中赫•钓鱼台7号院”(Heritage Estate)的豪华楼盘似乎略微拓展了科研项目的定义。
The Beijing government has halted sales of the most expensive luxury apartment complex in the Chinese capital and launched an investigation into the developer for possible “profiteering”, state media have reported, writes Jamil Anderlini in Beijing.
Last week, this blog reported on the luxury 1,000 sq m penthouse apartments in the west of the city that were selling for more than Rmb300m ($46.2m) but now the government has decided the company may have misled potential buyers and is also investigating its tax records.
The price of the most expensive apartments in the development reportedly jumped from about Rmb100,000 per sq m in the middle of last year to Rmb300,000 this year.
The project’s developer could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, and its sales website, with details on the complex, was “under maintenance”.
The situation is more complicated than it seems at first.
The land where the luxury apartments are being built formally belongs to the Chinese military, according to Chinese reports, and the site has been designated for a “national key comprehensive scientific and research project”, according to the Beijing government.
The “Heritage Estate” luxury apartment complex – known in Chinese as “Diaoyutai Courtyard Number 7” – appears to be slightly stretching the definition of a scientific research project.
But perhaps the project is actually meant to be a giant political science experiment intended to test the efficiency of the Chinese state at enforcing its own laws.
