Bargain Villa in Iraq? not likely mate.

I was cleaning out my long list of favourites and saw this old link to a short boingboing.net story from 2004.

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/12/wanna-buy-a-villa-in.html

The gist of it being that you could buy a sweet villa, complete with extras like an air raid bunker in the basement for $665,000, BARGAIN!

So i clicked on it anyway and sadly the property page said:

"Sorry, this property is no longer available"

Then i clicked on the link just below it to see what else was on offer in the villa department for Iraq, and this page came up http://www.viviun.com/AD-113520/

I couldnt believe it, its the same damn property, but the price tag has gone up to $720,000!!!!
A jump of almost 55,000 in 4 years for a property in Baghdad!
How the hell is their property appreciating in value with a war going on?
And then theres the fact that the villa itself is a ugly beast of a building inside and out!

I was kinda expecting something more extravagant for that price tag/location, maybe somethings like this:
http://www.courttv.com/graphics/onair/shows/hollywood_heat/new/photos/AD_modelhome208.jpg

:)