{"id":59837,"date":"2017-07-05T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/high-living-low-sales-shard-apartments-still-empty-five-years-on\/"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T05:12:55","slug":"high-living-low-sales-shard-apartments-still-empty-five-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/high-living-low-sales-shard-apartments-still-empty-five-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nLuxury flats with a price tag of up to \u00a350m were touted as an easy sell \u2013 yet have failed to shift as the London market slowsWhen it opened the developers of the Shard boasted that it should only take \u201cabout 20 phone calls\u201d to sell the 10 exclusive apartments near the top of the tower for up to \u00a350m each.Yet five years on from the Duke of York and the former prime minister of Qatar officially opening \u201cEurope\u2019s first vertical city\u201d with a dazzling laser display on 5 July 2012, all 10 of the flats on the 53rd to 65th floors of the 72-storey building appear to remain unsold. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/jul\/05\/shard-apartments-empty-flats-london-market\" target=\"_blank\">High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Luxury flats with a price tag of up to \u00a350m were touted as an easy&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-fz7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":79238,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bone-idol-the-shard-provocateur-is-my-kind-of-anarchist-suzanne-moore\/","url_meta":{"origin":59837,"position":0},"title":"Bone idol: the Shard provocateur is my kind of anarchist | Suzanne Moore","date":"February 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I adore Ian Bone. 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