Chapter Twenty-Eight: Huo Feng's Home (2)
Huo Feng celebrated his birthday, and Jiang Yifan prepared a cake for him, but did not prepare candles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the past few years, Huo Feng has made a wish on a candle every birthday, sometimes with a strange shape and sometimes a strange taste, Jiang Yifan has become accustomed to it.
But Huo Xinran had no way to get used to it. She buys Huo Feng beautiful birthday candles every year. Huo Feng relied on Huo Xinran for many things, but only on the matter of birthday candles, he never made concessions.
This made Huo Xinran have a strong hostility towards the person who sent the candle.
Huo Xinran grew up being pampered.
Although Huo Xinran was just born, Huo Feng didn't have any real brother and sister affection for her.
However, after Huo Feng graduated from Westminster School in 2005 and returned to Hong Kong, he was obedient to his sister, who was only four years old at the time. He hopes that Huo Xinran can have the childhood he once missed.
With Huo Feng's habit, coupled with the doting of Jiang Yifan, Huo Liang and Grandpa Huo, Huo Xinran is a typical eldest lady's temper.
If it weren't for the fact that every time it was given, it was Huo Feng's birthday, and the person who dared to refuse Miss Huo's gift would definitely not have a good life.
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"Have you decided where to buy land at today's meeting?" Huo Liang asked Huo Feng.
"There is no conclusion yet, and the mainland's current policy makes it difficult to get land for villas." Huo Feng shook his head and said.
"It was already like this for a few years." Huo Liang also understands that the company is currently in a bottleneck period of development.
"Are we going to continue to be a manor?" Huo Feng very much hoped that Huo Liang could give a negative answer.
"For so many years, we have been doing manors, brand positioning is like this, and our advantages are also doing manors." Huo Liang's meaning is already very clear.
Many people think that Huo Liang is very stupid, if the proportion of bank loans is increased, Huo is fully capable of doing several manor projects at the same time, or manors and apartments together.
In that case, the scale of the Huo clan will be much larger than it is now.
In the three years since he took over the company, Huo Feng actually doesn't quite understand why Huo Liang is so conservative in real estate. When it comes to making money, whether it is the scale of profits or the speed of capital return, ordinary apartments are a better choice than manor-style mansions.
No matter what others think, Huo Liang, who has experienced two financial turmoil, knows very well why his company has been able to get to where it is today.
Restrictions on land for villas in China have been in place for a long time, since 2003.
However, there are policies and countermeasures, and in the eleven years after the restriction came out, there have been a lot more villas in China.
There are a small number of villa areas, which are developed casually after taking the land, and then covering the market and reluctant to sell, and then "re-developing" in the past two years. There are also real secondary developments.
But more commonly, the land acquired is developed through "flexible use" - dividing the land into villa areas and ordinary distribution areas.
If you don't allow you to build a villa, in the final analysis, the floor area ratio can't go up.
Nowadays, many high-end communities in big cities are in the same community, build several apartment buildings, raise the floor area ratio to more than 1, and then build a large group of villas around the apartment building.
If the Huo family continues to build the manor, there is no way to pass such a "flexible rule application", but can only take the road of secondary development.
In this way, the road is much narrower and less flexible.
Speaking of which, like in 2014, it was the first time that Huo's faced a situation where he could not get villa land at all.
Therefore, Huo Feng held a one-day meeting and didn't get any results, which is a normal situation.
The Huo family father and son often discuss the company's affairs during meals.
After Huo Feng took over the Huo family, he did not often return to the Huo family manor to live. I usually basically live, a few years ago, I bought it near Huo's Real Estate Company, in a serviced apartment (serviced-appartment).
Although Huo Feng didn't hate the home in Huo's Manor for a long time, he was used to being lonely since he was a child, and he still liked the feeling of living alone. Of course, if Huo Xinran didn't want to stay at home during the holiday and wanted to live in the apartment, he would gladly accept it.
Since the company's affairs have not yet been concluded, Huo Liang did not continue this topic, but instead discussed with him the issue of Huo Xinran going to study at St. Paul's Girls' High School.
"St Paulo is a day secondary school and you need a guardian in the UK, are you planning to immigrate?" Huo Feng was a little suspicious of his father's idea of sending his sister to study in the UK so early.
After all, as a boy, he only went to Westminster School after graduating from junior high school, and Westminster accepts overseas boarders and does not need any guardians in the UK.
"There are no plans to immigrate for the time being, and your Uncle Mu will be Xin Ran's guardian." Huo Liang answered Huo Feng's question.
Uncle Mu in Huo Liang's mouth is full name Mu Jingyang. He is the former vice chairman and CEO of Huo's Real Estate.
The reason why Huo Feng took over Huo's Real Estate three years ago was because Mu Jingyang left.
The CEO who ran away was able to let Huo Liang hand over his daughter to him for custody, which shows that he was quite happy to leave at that time.
Huo Liang came to Hong Kong from Beijing to start a business, and it can be said that Mu Jingyang, a native of Hong Kong, helped him fight the world together.
When Huo's real estate was in the most difficult time, Mu Jingyang sold his house, so that Huo's can get to where it is today.
Mu Jingyang is a conscientious CEO, the traditional two brothers fight the world, and finally parted ways because of various interests, which cannot be set between Huo Liang and Mu Jingyang.
Mu Jingyang has diabetes. But he worked so hard that he often forgot to take insulin. Diabetes is a chronic disease, and it is not too difficult to control with a good injection.
Because Mu Jingyang himself didn't take his illness seriously, he began to have serious complications within a few years of getting sick. Mu Jingyang's doctors at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital advised him to go to the UK for pancreatic surgery and a new type of treatment.
In other words, it was not his original intention for Mu Jingyang to leave Huo's Real Estate at the beginning, and if he could, he wanted to stay more than anyone else. After the new treatment in the UK, Mu Jingyang's physical condition has improved significantly, and even changed from taking insulin every day to taking one injection a month.
Workaholic Mu Jingyang, Xu had the idea of retiring because he wandered around the ghost gate.
Huo Liang quickly expressed his understanding of his decision, because he himself handed over the burden of CEO to Mu Jingyang ten years ago. At the beginning, Huo Liang tried to help do some of the work that the chairman should do, but then he simply appeared in the company two or three times a year, signed a few words and left.
Mu Jingyang's health was a little better, so he returned to Huo's and taught Huo Feng hand-in-hand for three months, and waited until the new CEO made a smooth transition before returning to London to become the second "idle prince" of Huo's Real Estate, and continued to receive treatment by the way.