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 == contradictions re: apartment sales == 

 This article contradicts itself, but I don't know enough about it to know which is correct.  Compare 

 Due to the slumping demand in Dubai's property market, the rents in the Burj Khalifa plummeted 40% some ten months after its opening. Out of 900 apartments in the tower around 825 were still empty at that time 

 with 

 Floors through to 108 will have 900 private residential apartments (which, according to the developer, sold out within eight hours of being on the market). 

 Are the apartments completely empty?  Are they sold but not empty?  Are they occupied?  It seems like since supposedly everything but the hotel and deck is closed that they're vacant, but what do I know.   "