determined that about 30% of all sales in large scale new manhattan buildings since 2008 have been to these sort of foreign type investment entities. take, for instance, a building. 157. that tower going up. nobody who has a family or is buying in that building. so describe, let s take that building, describe what is going on there. you have a mix of people 157 a great example. about more than half of the sales that have closed so far have been to llcs, to unidentified entities. we really don t know who those buyers are. i was able to find out that a couple of them one was from greece, a couple of from hong kong or china it appears. but we really don t know who is buying the very, very high-end properties. some other people, lower point
price are buying under their own names and many do appear to be of foreign extraction. people buying either as an investment, as a status item, or just one unit in the building which is bought by an llc for some 30 some million dollars a couple of weeks ago is put back on the market for 41 so a nice return to their investment. nice paint job. gene, one of the things i find so on interesting about this, you see different buildings attract different people from different places and it becomes an epcot center of the sky. all of the russians go to this building and all of the chinese go to this building. is it dividing like that? it s the same way the neighborhoods in brooklyn were settled at the turn of the century where one guy says to one guy says to the other guy, you know, at their swiss ski