九龙仓

25岁的DavidWan说，就在九龙仓降价的一周前，他首付40000美元买了一套两居室。

David Wan , 25 , said he had put $ 40,000 down on a two-bedroom apartment just a week before Wharf cut the price .

香港顶级开发商——如新鸿基（SunHungKai）、恒基地产（HendersonLand）以及九龙仓（WharfHoldings）——地产销售占总收入不到一半。

Hong Kong 's top developers - such as Sun Hung Kai , Henderson Land , and Wharf - derive less than half of their revenues from unit sales .

香港集团公司九龙仓（wharf）曾考虑全盘收购付费电视经营商有线宽频通讯有限公司（i-cablecommunications），但本月宣布将不再推进该笔交易。

Wharf , the Hong Kong conglomerate , contemplated an offer to buy out pay-TV operation i-CABLE Communications , but announced this month that it would not go ahead .

他们举着标语，砸了售楼处的楼盘模型，并要求开发商九龙仓集团有限公司（Wharf（Holdings）Ltd.，简称：九龙仓集团）退款。这些业主购房之后，九龙仓集团把房价下调了20%，导致他们购买的房屋瞬间贬值。

They put up banners , trashed architectural models in the showroom and demanded refunds from the developer , Wharf ( Holdings ) Ltd. Wharf had cut prices by as much as 20 % after these protesters bought their apartments , making their purchases suddenly worth less .

在几个街区外的另一处九龙仓楼盘，一位警官正试图向一名抗议者解释中国房地产业的新现实。

A few blocks away at another Wharf project , a police officer tried to explain to a demonstrator the new reality of housing in China .

九龙仓集团为动用保安之举进行了辩护。该公司的一位发言人说，除非客户出现不理智的行为，否则公司不会去碰他们。九龙仓集团说，降价是为了清理库存。该公司称这种做法是“正常的市场行为”。

Wharf defends using the guards , who a spokesman said ' wouldn 't touch the customers unless they behaved unreasonably . ' The company said it cut prices to clear inventory , which it called ' normal market behavior . '