sentences:  In July 2009 the Murano's owners held a successful auction on forty of the building's units.Thomas Properties Group lowered the price for the remaining unsold units based on what the forty units went for at the auction.The Murano was announced in 2005 when Philadelphia was experiencing a condominium boom that had begun in the late 1990s; between 1998 and 2004 more than 70 Center City office and manufacturing buildings had been converted into rental and condominium apartments.