Today (Oct 28th 2009), WSJ has an article talking about cultural beliefs in numbers in the property market.
The recent sale of a condominium in Hong Kong for $56.6 million, apparently a residential record in Asia, sets the backgroud of this article.
The 40th – 59th floors in the same building are missing. So after the the 39th floor, it jumps to 60th floor. The top three floors are called consecutively 66, 68 and 88! This sure ticks off those methodical and meticulous people’s sense of order. I must say that this can be amusing, confusing or both, depending on which angle you look at the scenario.
If you are interested more in this area, I suggest you read my earlier post, “Numerologist Expert Talks About Cultural Beliefs on Numbers”
You may wonder, how come the SAME numbers may have different meanings to different culture? Aren’t numbers, like music, pretty universal?
When the buyer for a property is Chinese (be it Chinese from China, Hong Kong, Malyasia or Singapore), I always suggest them to end their offer with a few “8″s for “prosperity.”
Reason? “8″ is a homophone for the word of wealth and properity.
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