The Empire State Building cost around $41 million. So does a single floor in China's tallest building.

　　紐約帝國大廈造價大約4,100萬美元。而這是中國最高建筑的一層樓的價錢。

　　The owner of the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center says that in recent weeks it has set deals to sell five high-level floors in the building for as much as 273 million yuan, or $41.6 million, each.

　　101層的上海環(huán)球金融中心的所有者說，最近幾周其已達成交易，出售了五層高層樓面，每層價格最高達到人民幣2.73億元（合4,160萬美元）。

　　Transactions for single floors of super-tall office buildings are rare, particularly at the heights listed in the Shanghai deals. The tower's developer, Japan's Mori Building Co., says it has done three so-called strata deals this year: floor 68 for 273 million yuan, or 82,300 yuan per square meter; floor 72 for 267 million yuan, also 82,300 yuan per square meter; plus floors 69, 70 and 71 for a total 769 million yuan, representing a discounted price of 82,000 yuan per square meter.

　　Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press上海環(huán)球金融中心超高寫字樓的單層出售交易并不多見，尤其是上海這幾樁交易的樓層。這幢大樓的開發(fā)商森大廈株式會社(Mori Building Co.)說今年已達成了三樁所謂的整層交易：68層，售價人民幣2.73億元，合每平方米8.23萬元；72層，2.67億元，每平方米也是8.23萬元；還有69層、70層和71層，總價7.69億元，每平方米折扣價8.2萬元。

　　Only one of the buyers has been identified: Tomson Group Ltd. In its own announcement (PDF) about its purchase of floor 72, the Taiwan property group disclosed conditions Mori said apply to all the floors, primarily that they can't be sold or leased without the developer's permission for seven years.

　　其中只有一家買家確認了身份：臺灣地產(chǎn)商湯臣集團(Tomson Group Ltd.)在其購買上海環(huán)球金融中心第72層的公告中披露了購買的條款，森大廈方面說這些條款適用于所有樓層，主要是買方七年內(nèi)不得在未經(jīng)開發(fā)商允許的情況下轉(zhuǎn)售或轉(zhuǎn)租。

　　Michiho Kishi, a spokesman for Mori Building China, said by email the company has waved off expressions of interest from investment buyers " rather than end-users " since before construction was completed in 2008 but only now has decided to seek buyers for a limited portion of the building. He said the sales would free up capital for Mori to invest further in China.

　　森大廈中國公司發(fā)言人Michiho Kishi在電子郵件中說，2008年上海環(huán)球金融中心完工之前，公司就已拒絕了眾多投資買家（而非最終用戶）表達的購買意向，只在當前才決定出售大樓有限的一部分。他說，這些出售交易將讓森大廈得以釋放資金，用于在中國進一步投資。

　　The Shanghai World Financial Center, considered the world's third tallest building, is around 80% occupied, according to Mr. Kishi .

　　據(jù)Kishi說，上海環(huán)球金融中心的入駐率大約在80%。這幢建筑被認為是全球第三高樓。

　　Lina Wong, a managing director of Colliers International in Shanghai, who acted on behalf of Tomson, says she isn't aware of strata title deals anywhere involving office floors at such heights. "It's not a normal market situation," she said.

　　湯臣集團的代表、房地產(chǎn)咨詢公司高力國際(Colliers International)駐上海的董事總經(jīng)理Lina Wong說，她不知道其他地方涉及這么高樓層的整層交易。她說，這不是常態(tài)的市場狀況。

　　While eye-catching and unusual, the transactions aren't globally significant in terms of price per square meter, says Ms. Wong. Office property in Hong Kong costs four times as much as it does in Shanghai, she says, while prices in Singapore are three times higher.

　　Wong說，雖然這些交易引人注目、不同尋常，但就每平方米單價而言，在全球并不突出。她說，香港的寫字樓價格是上海的四倍，而新加坡的寫字樓價格也是上海的三倍。

　　Tomson, which didn't respond to a request for comment, is infamous in Shanghai's residential property market for the prices it charges for its own development a few blocks from the Shanghai World Financial Center: luxury riverside apartments called Riviera priced in the tens of millions of dollars each, a level locals describe as above the top of the market.

　　湯臣集團在距上海環(huán)球金融中心幾個街區(qū)的地段開發(fā)了住宅項目，以其價格之高而出名：名為“湯臣一品”的豪華水景公寓每套價格上千萬美元，當?shù)厝苏f這個價格高過了市場頂尖的水平。湯臣集團沒有回應記者的置評請求。

　　While the top end of Shanghai real estate tends to grab headlines, the local government appears more concerned with escalating prices for mid-range apartments, which have increasingly risen beyond the reach of the masses. Prices shouldn't rise faster than economic growth itself, the government said Tuesday as households wait to see how a new transaction tax might affect pricing.

　　雖然上海高端房產(chǎn)往往會成為新聞頭條，但當?shù)卣@然更關(guān)注中檔公寓價格逐步上漲的情況，這類住房的價格已經(jīng)越來越讓大眾難以承受。政府周二說，房價漲幅不應超過經(jīng)濟增幅，同時普通居民正拭目以待，看新的房產(chǎn)交易稅可能會對房價產(chǎn)生何種影響。

　　Shanghai's office market has emerged as a hot real estate sector as the government has focused on controlling residential pricing. The Wall Street Journal recently reported the sale of a 40-floor office building in Shanghai's Puxi distrct for $670 million, thought to represent biggest Chinese property transaction so far in 2011.

　　隨著政府將注意力放在控制住房價格上，上海寫字樓市場已經(jīng)成為房地產(chǎn)的熱點領域?！度A爾街日報》不久前曾報道過上海浦西區(qū)一幢40層的寫字樓以6.7億美元出售，這被認為是2011年迄今最大的一樁中國房地產(chǎn)交易。

　　Normally, that's the way Grade A office space changes hands -- in bulk. Ms. Wong says the closest investors normally can get to strata title in top-grade buildings is participation in a property investment fund or through stock ownership in development company.

　　這是A級寫字樓通常的轉(zhuǎn)手方式──整體出售。Wong說，通常投資者獲得寫字樓分層產(chǎn)權(quán)的方式是加入房地產(chǎn)投資基金，或通過持股開發(fā)商。

　　While property agents have complex formulas for determining the value of a building, dividing total cost by number of floors provides a rough, back-of-the-envelope perspective on relative property prices. If built today, the Empire State Building of course would cost more than its 1931 price tag of $41 million â about $595 million in today's dollars, or $5.83 million for each of its 102 floors. The Wall Street Journal says a deal about four years ago for New York's 666 Fifth Ave. represented the top of that market, the highest price ever paid for a single building at the time: $1.8 billion, or $46.2 million for each of its 39 floors.

　　雖然房產(chǎn)中介對于確定建筑物的價值有一套復雜的公式，但用總價除以樓層數(shù)則是一種簡單的方法，可以大略地了解相關(guān)房產(chǎn)的價格。如果現(xiàn)在建造102層的帝國大廈，其價格肯定會超過1931年的標價4,100萬美元──折合當前的5.95億美元，每層折合583萬美元?！度A爾街日報》說，大約四年前的一樁交易標志著寫字樓市場的頂點，紐約第五大道666號以18億美元出售，是當時單幢建筑的最高價，這幢樓共39層，合每層4,620萬美元。