To tell the truth, although Thorzetsky was very courteous to Gu Biao, if he was flattered, he didn't want to pile up money like money.

However, he had a little idea of "slaughtering this stranger" in his heart.

During his years in Seattle, he was accustomed to seeing wealthy Third World people fleeing their homeland with huge amounts of wealth, often willing to pay for their lives in search of a place to stay. Even if the business is quite big in the United States, there is no foundation to speak of.

However, after hearing that Gu Biao was talking and laughing with Kissinger and Haig in that environment, he immediately changed his mind.

It's better to charge a conscience price and get a good relationship.

With Gu Wei's connections, if he steals customers, sooner or later he will be spent, and the road in the circle may be narrowed at that time.

In the follow-up price negotiation session, the atmosphere is very pleasant and friendly.

"Gu, you are also an insider, I'll be more direct with you. You can also see the environment of this rudder bonito, and I will tell you some quantitative indicators:

The island is about 900 yards from east to west and 240 yards wide from north to south, and it is relatively square, covering an area of 45 acres. Seattle villas and estates per acre, not counting buildings, can sell for $100,000 per acre for bare land, garden vegetation, and infrastructure.

Mr. Scott's garden is carefully cared for, all the vegetation on the island has been trimmed, and two white coral beaches are specially paved, which are rare in the north, and the silt and basalt black sand dug up and backfilled coral sand alone are 20,000 tons, and the amount of work is very large. Therefore, the natural landscape and land of the entire island, priced at 4 million US dollars, must not be less. ”

When Todorsky said this, he poured a little ice wine for each of them, took a sip, and gave Gu Biao a little time to think.

Seeing that Gu Wei did not object, he continued to analyze: "In terms of facilities and construction, Mr. Scott has built a yacht marina on the north side of the island, which can originally accommodate 80-foot private yachts, as well as several small motorboats and motorboat berths.

On the south shore there are trestles for seaplanes to take off and land, and there are two helipads on the island. Other water towers, emergency power stations and a 20-foot blade diameter wind turbine are very well equipped.

In the building part, there is a French-style cloister palace covering an area of about 4,000 square meters, and two smaller country houses. They are used for large-scale banquets and private residences. Even if the price of a 100-square-meter apartment in downtown Seattle is 15,000 US dollars and a single-family bungalow is 2~30,000 US dollars, the Daxing Palace will cost more than 3 million US dollars, and the remaining two villas will cost about 30~500,000 US dollars each......"

In the end, all the accounts were settled, Gu Biao talked a little, and Thorzetsky repeatedly called the old owner Mr. Scott, and talked for a long time, agreeing to a deal of 9.6 million.

For Todorsky and Scott, although it was a more conscientious price, it could be regarded as a heart disease. Because they all know that Secretary of State Haig doesn't have so much money to be the owner of the island after he leaves office, and he doesn't rely on the owner's style to entertain and entertain people as public relations directors.

Seattle's rich market capacity is so large, if there is no Gu Biao, although it can be sold at this price, or slightly higher, it is very possible to wait for another year and a half.

Selling it early is equivalent to throwing the maintenance fee to Gu Biao.

A director who no longer needs to invite politicians and wealthy businessmen to hold public relations receptions every day continues to bleed and pay maintenance fees every month, which is also very uncomfortable.

After the deal was settled, Trotsky opened the champagne.

Gu Biao took advantage of the other market.

Because Trotsky just now, in order to persuade him to accept this price, believing that it was reasonable, showed him a lot of local Seattle housing prices, and they were all photocopied from real transaction records, which seemed to be true.

There are even a handful of recorded home price transactions in Vancouver on the North Shore of the Bay Area.

After Gu Biao toasted the other party with a glass of champagne, he took the opportunity to inquire about Vancouver's market in depth.

"What's so interesting about Vancouver's house prices? What's so good about Vancouver, of course our Seattle is better. Thorzetsky drank a few glasses of ice wine and champagne before and after accompanying Gu Wei, slightly drunk, and inevitably said good things for the local façade.

However, Gu Biao insisted on asking, and Trotsky did not doubt him, and basically answered all questions.

"In Vancouver, real estate development is still very regular, and the city was born decades later than Seattle, so when it was first built, the planning was very square and rigorous.

A single-family house in the urban area can be divided into 20 households on an acre of land and about 40,000 US dollars. Townhouse, 40 households per acre, $20,000. The aforementioned buildings are all two-storey buildings, and if the townhouse is a single-story bungalow, it costs $15,000, which is basically no fluctuation in the main city block. 100 square meters of multi-storey apartments, 10,000 to 12,000.

Overall housing prices are about 30% lower than in Seattle, but they have very few multi-storey apartments, most of which are single-family or townhouses. ”

Gu Biao was curious about why Vancouver's planning was so neat, and Trotsky answered all questions: The city of Vancouver starts from the 49th parallel, that is, the U.S.-Canada border, and runs 'Avenue 0', and then every 1 mile to the north, 8 streets.

A mile is about 1.6 kilometers, so it's equivalent to an intersection every 200 meters, which is very standard, and it's exactly 13 miles from the U.S.-Canada border on the 49th parallel to the Fraser River, all the way to 114th Avenue.

Where it is planned as a residential area, then strictly 100 single-family houses or 200 townhouses are piled up in each 200-meter by 200-meter, 10-acre block. The whole city now has 500~600 residential tofu blocks, and about 100,000 urban planning houses.

On the north bank of the Fraser River, slightly loosely planned, there is the estuary delta and Richmond area, which has a little more personality.

Trotzki also casually helped Gu Biao assess that the total market value of all the current residential real estate in downtown Vancouver is $2 billion, excluding those luxury houses.

A small city with a population of 300,000 is still a "bitter cold land in the north", which is cheap.

"Then do you think there is a lot of room for upgrading residential capacity if Vancouver has to deal with the foreign population?" asked Gu Biao.

Třezetsky thought for a moment: "There should be no problem, after all, this city is a new city, and there is always an influx of tens of thousands of people every year. In previous years, the practice was generally that the house was not enough to sell, and some real estate developers concentrated on listing prices and purchasing them in a unified manner.

It is planned according to the unit of 200 by 200 block units. If the 200 original households in the 10-acre block are willing to sell and demolish, then the whole high-rise building will be leveled. As long as there are 200 households who do not negotiate and do not accept the developer's price, then the developer will look for other blocks.

Anyway, each block is the most standardized, and the developer's offer is just as high, and no one feels particularly profitable or loss-making. Therefore, every time an offer is issued for dozens of blocks in a district, and until the land is fully collected, there is always a residents' self-government organization to help mediate the land acquisition. ”

Gu Biao secretly thought that this tradition in Vancouver was good, and it was good for the prevention and control of nail households. Originally, because of land property rights, it must be very annoying for Canada to acquire land. But since each block is almost equal in value and has the same specifications, the overall plan of "first respond, first sell" has a future.

There are always some people in the neighborhood who are afraid that they will be preempted by others and will not get a premium, so they will find ways to mobilize their neighbors to move too, and those who do not move can also change houses with those who are willing to move across the street.

If you don't even want to change houses, it will be more troublesome to be isolated by others, and secondly, there is no psychological expectation that nail households can make huge profits, and finally in case the people next to them have moved, and the new house in the next block will lead to a rise in the valuation of the surrounding property tax, and the nail households will pay more taxes if they do not increase.

Judging from Todorzki's experience, the general premium for land acquisition is 20% higher than the current housing price before the demolition, and people can be mobilized to sell it in a certain neighborhood.

Gu Biao did the math: "That is to say, for 5 million US dollars, you can bulldoze a 200-meter by 200-meter 10-acre low-rise residential area, and then spend money to find a construction team to build a high-rise apartment building and sell it at a higher price."

After the renovation of the high-rise, the plot ratio has increased to at least 4 times, even if the unit price of the area drops by one-third, it is still very profitable. No one did this before, just because there weren't so many outsiders. Moreover, it is completely possible to take advantage of the habit of Chinese Americans who like to gather together to create Chinatown, and stir up certain blocks in the city center.

As for whether they will run over if the surrounding area is cheaper, there is nothing to worry about. Take the time to investigate the city's security. If the security in the suburbs is particularly poor, those who have fled will not dare to live. Even if the law and order are not so deteriorating, they can rely on the media to render and even show the way. In the final analysis, real estate is a concept and confidence, and nothing is worth anything without confidence. ”

He thought about how to get rid of the black money and blood money of those guys who were afraid of being extradited back to China, and he couldn't help but laugh.

Of course, he held back for the time being, and asked the bodyguards and waitresses to send Mr. Trotzki away.

He paid the money on the same day, and officially took over, starting his short life as an island owner.

"You asked so clearly, did you think about how to do it? It doesn't mean that you plan to set up a real estate company immediately, right?" Ye Su watched the seller leave, and asked Gu Wei worriedly.

Gu Biao: "Don't worry, doesn't that seem to be too clear about my purpose." Have you forgotten that my 'main purpose' this time is to ask Stallone to endorse me.

Tomorrow, we'll take a yacht down the Fraser River to Hope, a satellite town in the upper reaches of Vancouver, where the crew of "First Blood" is located. I'll talk to Stallone and the others, try not to stay on shore for too long, and invite Stallone and the director back to the island for a detailed discussion. We have to be high-profile in this matter, and we must be low-key in the follow-up real estate company, and we must find white gloves to cover. ”

Hope is about 30 nautical miles upstream of downtown Vancouver, which is a relatively suburban town, and the environment there is relatively pristine, which is very suitable for being a movie base.

Ye Kun can only endure for the time being, and further brew his role.

I have to cooperate with Gu Biao, a dead thing, to act.