Chapter 208: A Private Island
The second more is delivered!
There are many attractive things in this world, but the most fascinating is the word "freedom", which is an indefinable feeling that transcends all emotions and seems to link to the value of life.
A senior executive of Germany's Vilardi Private Islands, the world's largest private island trading company, said in an interview that half of all the calls they received would ask, "Is it possible to build a country of our own on the island?" Although this question is ridiculous, it is enough to reflect that everyone's heart has a self-world ** is ubiquitous and knows no borders.
Of course, more people are buying private islands for their own enjoyment and experience, especially for those who live in increasingly fast-paced, stressful and deteriorating metropolises, and there is nothing closer to paradise than a private island that temporarily escapes reality, is surrounded by nature in all directions, and takes you back to a rustic life.
The 21st century is known as the century of the oceans, with nearly 10% of the world's population, or about 600 million people, living on islands, while a quarter of the world's sovereign states are made up of islands and archipelagos, and one-sixth of the earth's surface is islands and related exclusive economic zones.
Since the 70s of the 20th century, the environmental pollution of industrialized countries has been increasing, the population density of cities has increased significantly, the crowds of people, and the polluted air have all made those private islands hidden in the blue ocean a paradise for people's dreams. People seek a hidden place where they can be at peace and escape from the noise of the city.
They aspire to experience the purity of nature, and the tranquility and serenity of the island fills them with vitality and purifies the soul. The sea is full of unknown life and huge natural resources, and people of insight have deeply felt that the future of mankind is not outside of space, but in the ocean.
Over the past 100 years, more than 12,000 islands around the world have been put up for sale, but only about 2,000 of them are truly qualified to become paradises and holy places. The private islands that have been turned into resorts are just over a thousand small islands in the world.
Although many islands are listed for sale, the vast majority of them are not suitable for human habitation, and some islands, although suitable for human habitation and transformation, cannot be truly private because they cannot have freehold property rights. For example, some islands in China are in very good condition, because it is impossible for the owners to have permanent property rights. It has been abandoned by many wealthy people who are ready to buy private islands.
In recent years, as a valuable real estate with the best green ecological and natural environment system on the earth, international private islands have become a new investment field that attracts international high-end real estate investors with the characteristics of permanent property rights and steady appreciation, that is to say, the world's only more than 1,000 private islands that have been modernized and developed are absolutely rare resources that cannot be replicated!
When Tang Feng was in the explorer company before, when he used to chat and fart with those brothers, he also talked about these private islands, and of course these poor slings would also send messages such as "Wait for Lao Tzu to be rich" when they were drunk. Lao Tzu will definitely buy the best private island in the world" and so on.
In the eyes of Tang Feng in the past, this kind of private island definitely belongs to the kind of thing that can only exist in dreams.
The price of this thing is too expensive, and for people like Tang Feng, who used to work in the explorer company to pay off his debts, the price of a private island is something they can only talk about when they talk about it. And over time, the price of this unrepeatable scarce resource will only get more expensive.
Just like Richard Lee, the founder of Virgin Atlantic in the United States. The small island called Nichol, which Branson bought in the eastern part of the British Virgin Islands, was the site of Richard Brown. When Branson bought the 450-acre island, it was a deserted island, priced at just £200,000. But then Richard. Branson has invested dozens of times the price of the island on this small island. The result is one of the most famous private islands in the world, and a destination for many celebrities around the world.
Famous directors such as Spielberg, Princess Diana, and Prince Charles. They have all been visitors to this small island. Of course, the cost of visiting this small island is quite expensive. As Tang Feng saw just now, the price of leasing this small island to the outside world is as high as nearly 330,000 US dollars a week.
There are also people such as Mel. Gibson, who spent $15 million in 2004 to buy a private island in Fiji with an area of 21.6 square kilometers, is up to now. The island's most conservative share price also exceeded $30 million.
Before owning the star core, this kind of private island that could easily cost hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of dollars, Tang Feng could only think about it. But now these private islands can only be regarded as a slightly more expensive toy for Tang Feng.
Not to mention the more than $800 million Tang received after the Kajabi mine was sold to BHP Billiton, it was enough for Tang to buy the world's best private island. Just talking about the net worth brought to Tang Feng by the newly discovered Beaumont oil field, it will definitely make the owners of most private islands in the world look up to.
Therefore, in terms of financial resources, buying a private island now is nothing for Tang Feng. And Tang Feng also knows that in recent years, some of the wealthy people who have bought private islands in the past are now selling off their islands for various reasons, resulting in the number of private islands currently on sale has tripled compared with a few years ago.
But even so, there are many small islands that cannot be sold. Because people nowadays, especially those who are rich, have become more and more rational about investment, so the expensive big-rich toys such as private islands are not as easy to sell as they were in previous years. And these tycoons because of the sale of their private islands, the current price of private islands began to fall sharply, except for some extremely famous private islands, the price of most private islands has been cut in half.
Located on Allen Island, off the coast of Washington State, the city is located in the United States. Allen's surname named the island in 1992 by Paul. After Allen bought it, he built a lot of construction on the island and transformed the island very beautifully, but because he couldn't send electricity to the island, Paul. Alan had no choice but to reluctantly part with his love and began to sell the island, which had an airstrip and a luxury vacation home and a marina. When it was first listed for sale in 2005, it was asked for $25 million, but it has now dropped to $13.5 million, and it still hasn't been sold.
Hollywood star Nicholas? Cage once bought a small island in the Bahamas for $3 million, but his dreams of living on the island were shattered when an endangered lizard was discovered and the authorities banned human exploitation.
Also, Hollywood's golden boy Johnny. Depp and girlfriend Vanessa? Paradis broke up, and the small island that the two jointly owned in the Bahamas is expected to be put up for sale soon, because neither Depp nor Paradis have no intention of continuing to keep this dream island.
Regardless of the reason why these small islands were listed for sale, Tang Feng did not want to know about them, but the sale of these private islands would undoubtedly provide convenient conditions for Tang Feng to buy private islands. Maybe in the future, Tang Feng will buy a luxurious private island as his base, but now, Tang Feng is more concerned about whether this small island called Cayo Lobito is for sale! (To be continued......)