Chapter 312: Mansion (2/4 Subscription Requested)
The neighborhood is really good, just on the edge of Kensington Gardens, next to Hyde Park, and not far from Buckingham Palace, the Queen's residence.
A mansion worth hundreds of millions of dollars is already one of the most expensive buildings in the world, and most rich people like to tinker with their own houses, such as the one built by Bill Gates himself, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has also invested $200 million to build a Japanese-style manor in recent years, and the news of completion just came last month.
The housing prices in the core area of London are higher than those in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but Ye Dongqing already has a house there, the reason why he came to London to see the house this time is to buy a house of his own in advance, and when he is busy in the past few years, all his career is on the right track, he feels that he may come to London to live for a while, he was busy for work when he was young, and he can't spend his whole life on it, and he doesn't plan to become a slave to money.
Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, Ben, Brazil, etc., and many other countries and regions have not been there, and global travel plans have been put on his agenda.
The two houses are separated by a few hundred meters, walking to the larger house, with a total area of nearly 3,000 square meters, and it is said that more than 20 million pounds were invested in the decoration.
There are tall trees growing on the side of the street, there are pedestrians passing by, there are no cars on the road, and the environment is relatively quiet.
I told the doorman, and when I entered, I could see the park next to it through the railing, and there was also a pool in the courtyard of this building, which was larger than the one I had seen before, and there were deck chairs next to it, covered by an awning, and there were several stone lions, and the water of the pool was light blue.
A road bends from the doorway to the gate of the villa, the garden is very delicately arranged, there are trees to cover it, you can't see the inside from the outside, and there is a small piece of grass, there is a fat dog tied to the corner, it looks like a lion, the hair is reddish, Ye Dongqing only thought it was a chow chow, and didn't care.
Neo-Georgian style building, the appearance looks beautiful, not close to the street, you can hear the birds, so far Ye Dongqing is still very satisfied, standing in place and looking at it, I think it should be very good to live here.
Laura has been accompanying Ye Dongqing for the past two days, and she specially asked her mentor for leave, her grades are very good, and she is a celebrity, the other party has no trouble, and she directly agreed. At this moment she was going to play with the dog, but as soon as she got closer, she saw the little dog barking fiercely, and the sound was really a bit like a lion.
Hearing the low roar, Ye Dongqing smiled and said, "Hey, this little guy is really fierce, could it be that he is a nurse?"
"It's not an ordinary puppy, it comes from the Tibetan Plateau, it is said to be more ferocious than the Caucasian dog, the previous owner didn't take it away when he left, because there was no way to tame it, it was worth tens of thousands of pounds, we couldn't just throw it to the stray dog rescue agency, maybe some guests liked it." ”
The real estate agent explained.
"Tibetan mastiff?"
I can't help but take a few more looks, Ye Dongqing once had friends who had this kind of dog, and he was a little interested in the little guy, and every time he heard the dog barking like crazy, he would feel irritable, so he had never had a dog in his previous life or in this life.
Approached and looked, and then turned back, asked to go to the interior of the house to see, the decoration is splendid, all are the kind of camphor wood with golden textures, even the wall is pasted with this kind of wooden board, after turning on the light, it is really a bit like a golden house, with some dark furniture, wood carving, the whole is quite harmonious, the ground is also black with gold lines of floor tiles, extravagant.
A total of 16 guest rooms, an indoor swimming pool, a private cinema that can accommodate 12 people, plus an independent gym, and an underground wine cellar of more than 300 square meters, can be priced at more than 80 million pounds.
I asked if the price could be lower, and there were specific taxes and fees, 150 million pounds of antiques were bought, and the agent got an astonishing 2.25 million pounds, for where he and his future descendants lived, Ye Dongqing was even more willing to spend money, and when he heard the price, he didn't even frown, and directly asked the real estate agent to ask the landlord out and talk to him face to face.
When he learned that someone else had offered £77 million and the owner didn't agree to sell, he already had an approximate price in mind......
Noam Gottsman, a Jewish-American in his forties.
He has recently been overwhelmed by business failures, and now lives in London, trying to snipe crude oil futures on the London Stock Exchange in an attempt to get back up from where he fell.
Since the beginning of the year, investors and institutions that have shorted crude oil futures have all suffered heavy losses, and oil prices have risen so fast that Mr. Gottsmann has not been given much time to react, and his value has quickly shrunk from about 500 million pounds to 30%, and if the situation is not reversed, the hedge fund company he co-founded will be in big trouble.
A series of decision-making mistakes, misjudged the international situation, no wonder others, so he decided to sell this mansion on Kensington Palace Garden Street, because the price is relatively high, from the beginning of the year to the present, because it has not yet fallen into the critical period of life and death decision, so he is not in a hurry.
When he received a call from a real estate agent telling him that a young man named Leo Ye wanted to buy a house, Mr. Gottsman immediately rushed over in a car.
For Ye Dongqing, he was not very famous last year, but now as long as he is doing business on Wall Street, almost no one does not know him.
A success may be luck, but Mr. Gottsman knows that Ye Dongqing has successfully profited from the crude oil futures market three times, and each time he makes more than the first, which is no longer explained by luck, and Tu Zhong is upset, thinking that he should ask the little Chinese guy later to see what he thinks about the recent oil price trend.
Freshwater Investment Group has just completed a sell-off, in fact, in the eyes of Mr. Gottsmann, this has shown a certain attitude, but since the end of the war last year, especially after the second half of last year, the crazy trend of international oil prices is simply incomprehensible to many people, hedge funds are a little more secure, but it does not mean 100% safe, but compared with traditional funds, the risk is smaller.
He knows that the business genius is not only a business genius who has made achievements in the economic field, but also makes Warren Buffett, the god of stocks, praise his courage in private, what about the debt of more than 20 billion US dollars, as long as there is no problem with the assets invested, Ye Dongqing is still the object that Mr. Gottsman needs to look up to......