09 年,掉的最多的房地產

Location: Greenwich, Conn.

Price: $60 million

When we first wrote about this property in October, the price had been recently slashed from $75 million. That doesn't seem bad until you consider that it hit the market at $125 million last year. Nevermind that Leona Helmsley billed her husband's Manhattan real estate firm for renovations to the estate's 14 bedrooms, two pools, multiple cottages and million-dollar dance floor with funds and later did time for it. This Jacobean manse is a monument to the sluggish luxury home market in Greenwich, where sales during the first nine months of 2009 were down 46% from the same time last year.

2. Nic Cage's homes

Locations: New Orleans; Bel Air, Calif.; Rhode Island; New York; the Bahamas; Bath, England

Price: Roughly $56 million combined

When you're more than $6 million in the red and forced to unload nearly every home you own, suddenly a starring role in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans doesn't look so bad. Even if it's the business manager's fault, as Cage claims, his homes have been moving like items in a Wal-Mart (WMT) pre-holiday sale -- quickly and cheaply. His two homes in "port of call" New Orleans were appraised at $3.7 million and $3.45 million, but only fetched $4.5 million combined at a foreclosure auction last month. Meanwhile, his Bel Air mansion was on the market for $35 million before its price was dropped to $17.5 million. It sold for an estimated $15 million. His $9 million apartment in New York fetched $7 million, and he still may need to sell his $8 million castle in Bath, his $12 million home in Rhode Island and his $9.49 million home in Las Vegas just to make ends meet.

3. Emerald Caye

Location: Turks and Caicos

Price: $48.5 million

As shaky as the luxury housing's foundation is, it's firm bedrock compared to the drowning private island market. This 30,000-square-foot property on 2.32 acres of island accessible only by a remote-controlled swing bridge was on the market for $75 million last year, but cut its price 35%. As tough as it must have been to discount a three-story library, 6,000 bottle wine cellar, home theater, fitness room, two swimming pools, tennis and volleyball courts, two boat slips and two guesthouses, that's just the way things have been for private island sellers this year.

Nick Hexum of reggae-rock band 311 put his 5.5-acre island in the Florida Keys on the market for $10 million in 2006, but cut the price to $3.85 million this year. The still unsold 1,235-acre Nafsika Island in Greece's Ionian Sea was offered by the Onassis family for more than $21 million before its price was cut in half.

4. Any Bernie Madoff home