Forced to purchase Neon Condo

The game straight up extorted 235000 credits from me! On my NG+ run of the Freestar Rangers questline, I was doing the Shadows in Neon mission and I was following Ranger Price to talk to his informant and he went to that condo for sale in the Trade tower which before you buy it you can’t get up to it on the elevator. The game would not progress until I bought the condo and could now go up there. When I got up there he then immediately left and the took the usual route to the informant who was in the same spot as usual.

Has anyone ever seen this?