'What buyers in these areas really want is really large apartments and brand-new homes─that is the absolute Holy Grail,' says Ed Mead, a director of Douglas & Gordon estate agents. In order to achieve this, developers buy up two or three adjacent houses, keep their historic facades intact to satisfy the local planning authorities and tear down the rest of the property behind them.

房产经纪公司Douglas & Gordon的董事艾德·米德(Ed Mead)说，买家想在这些地区购买的是足够大的公寓以及全新的豪宅，这可谓是众人所求的“圣杯。为了做到这一点，开发商往往会将两到三处相邻的房子买下，将其经过岁月洗礼的临街外 保留完好，以满足当地城市规划部门的要求，然后将那些并不临街的部分拆除。

Teardowns are also thriving in low-tax economies like the Isle of Man, a ruggedly beautiful outcrop in the Irish Sea. Its independent status means no capital-gains tax, wealth tax, Stamp Duty (compared with a levy of up to 7% imposed on mainland property purchases) or inheritance tax. All that, combined with a top rate of income tax of 20%, makes the area attractive to the very wealthy.

在那些税率较低的经济体，比如位于爱尔兰海中地势崎岖的美丽岛屿马恩岛(Isle of Man)，拆旧房盖新房的风潮也很盛。马恩岛享有的自治地位意味着在岛上不用缴纳资本利得税、财产税、印花税（相比之下在英国本土购房需要缴纳高达7%的印花税）和遗产税。所有这些加上最高税率为20%的所得税令该地区深受超级富豪的欢迎。

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