In the afternoon, Andy stood in front of the curved large floor-to-ceiling window with a cup of steaming British black tea, looking at the gray sky outside and the drizzle, constantly hitting the glass and sliding down.

"Boss, Mr. Tony Pitt has arrived. ”

Andy turned to look at the little assistant wearing a gray high-necked tight sweater, a black bag tun skirt, and black transparent sisi socks and nodded slightly, "Let them go to the living room and wait first, I'll go over right away." ”

As he spoke, Andy took a sip of black tea, walked over to the coffee table and put down his cup, picked up a folder from the table, and walked towards the living room.

"Good afternoon, boss. ”

"Sit down, don't be inhibited. Walking into the living room, Andy saw four people led by real estate investment consultant Tony Pitt stand up to greet him, Andy couldn't help but smile and stretched out his hand and pressed down.

"Thank you to the owner. ”

"I love this house, Tony, you're doing a good job. I'm satisfied. Andy walked to the monobloc in the middle facing the floor-to-ceiling window and sat down, smiling and saying to Tony Pitt on the left.

"Boss, you are satisfied. Tony Pitt laughed, then took out a folder from the side and handed it to Andy, explaining: "Boss, this is all the information of the castle manor that we are selling or intending to sell from the British National Trust and through specific channels or connections. “

Andy nodded, reached out and took the folder, opened it and began to look at it, as the files with the photos flipped through one by one, Andy's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and then looked at Tony and said, "Why is it so cheap?"

Looking at these three or four million pound castle manor, Andy was a little speechless, for example, he now saw a manor called Danshall Manor, which introduced that the original owner was Sir Richard Acollette, one of the fathers of the British Industrial Revolution, the manor is a British second-class historic building, located in Staffordshire, covering an area of 85.7 hectares, with 12 bedrooms, plus a lake, orangery, a ballroom, a cellar and a cricket field, the castle manor dating back to 1145 is only five million pounds.

Andy looked at the photos of the manor mansion, which was no worse than the castle mansion in Downton Abbey.

Tony hurriedly explained: "Boss, the price of buying a castle manor is not expensive, and the key is the mark on this historical building.

There will be many restrictions on the repair and addition of houses to historical and cultural heritage, and a comprehensive structural and maintenance inspection of the house is required, which is expensive in terms of maintenance, and some are in disrepair, even if all the rooms are painted once, it costs tens of thousands of pounds.

The Danshall manor you see is cheap, but it has changed owners several times, and it has not been completely renovated, and the cost of a simple complete renovation alone can cost millions of pounds, if not millions, not counting the cost of maintaining the castle manor afterwards.

Like this one in Norfolk, England, Tudor Waterton Manor is only 15 million pounds, which has been renovated and remodeled, and can be moved in, but the cost of this mansion is about 2,000 pounds per week, not counting the cost of labor.

There are very few British aristocrats who can afford a manor without having to work. Many nobles who were desperate and forced to hand over their ancestral homes and properties to the state trust should have a good ending if they could continue to maintain their ancestral estates by relying on their hard work.

The sky-high cost of these castle manors is really not affordable for ordinary people.

If you want to use the castle to generate income, such as charging tickets or something. You need to report to the British government for approval, and then the ticket revenue has to pay taxes, and there are too many castles in the UK, so if this castle has no story, it is basically a money-losing business. ”

Andy nodded with some relief, knowing that the inheritance tax in the UK is really very fatal, and the better nobles have to sell their family collections to raise taxes when they inherit their property.

And those declining aristocratic families would rather hand over these castle estates to the state trust than choose to inherit, because for them, these castle estates that can only spend money and cannot make money are simply negative assets, which will definitely drag them down.

Continuing to flip through the photo files, there are only three that Andy can take a fancy to, and the other castle estates are either not in the style of the castle he likes, or the layout is too small, and the 7-20 bedroom castle mansion is no longer in the scope of his consideration at all.

After all, what he needed was not for his own living, and he didn't have the interest in living in the humid and cold English countryside, and if he wanted to experience aristocratic life, Andy was not interested in pretending to be poor.13 He didn't feel anything other than a little interest in the chaotic private life among the aristocracy.

"Huh, this castle is good!" Andy couldn't help but look at the familiar Gothic architectural style of the big castle, but when he saw the price marked below, he couldn't help but pout.

Fifty million pounds, tsk, you really dare to open your mouth to ask for it!

When Tony heard the big boss's words, he slightly looked at the photo in the big boss's Chinese folder, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Boss, this Highclere Castle in Berkshire, west of London, belongs to the family of the Earl of Carnarvon, and currently belongs to the eighth generation of the Earl of Carnarvon George Herbert and Countess Fiona.

Since 2003, after inheriting the estate, they have been trying all kinds of ways to maintain the estate, originally wanted to develop the surrounding land, but because of the neighbors in the way, without the consent of the government, the annual maintenance and management fee of 1 million pounds of the estate has been difficult for them to afford, especially since last year, the business that could have relied on tourism to collect tickets for visits has dropped sharply.

Although they are not publicly sold, we got the news from certain circles and contacted them to confirm that they are indeed interested in selling Highclere Castle.

The castle has been inhabited by the Earl's family, and there are currently 20 full-time servants, and the castle has almost completely maintained its original appearance from the post-World War I to the present, although some family collections have been sold due to inheritance tax, and 20% of the manor land has been sold, but there are still 4,000 acres of land on the estate.

The supporter and participant in the archaeological effort to discover the world-famous golden mask of Tutankhamun was the fifth Count of Carnarvan, but he soon died of sepsis in Egypt, and the loyal dog of the Count, who was far away in the castle, barked and died... “

"Oh, Pharaoh's curse, hehe, it's really a family with a story, it's kind of interesting. Andy raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled, the truth of the story is not important to him, the key is that the inheritance of this castle is orderly and intact, which is used by him to shoot "Downton Abbey", which can meet the idea of packaging marketing as a tourist hotel.

"Hehe, fifty million pounds, but it's not cheap at all, if the deal is going to be made, except for their personal belongings, everything else must be kept in its original state, no problem, right?"

When Tony heard the big boss's words, he hurriedly replied: "There should be no problem, when I called to confirm the news, I asked in general." They are sold as a whole. ”

"Okay, then let's start talking with the Earl and his wife, and I'll go to Highclere's Castle for some time to-morrow or the day after tomorrow. Andy looked at the photos of the castle and couldn't help but say lightly.

"Ok boss, I'll contact them in a moment. ”