Your claim is something different. You're claiming that _relative to newer buildings_, yours has lost value. The parent poster is claiming that _relative to t

Your claim is something different. You're claiming that _relative to newer buildings_, yours has lost value. The parent poster is claiming that _relative to the same building in the past_, prices go down in japan and up elsewhere. Would the apartment you live in now have cost more or less 5 or 10 years ago? That's really the thing the parent poster is talking about, and other newer constructions are unrelated to that point.