1831. Nice new house
Hughes Jr. and Reyeke have a wide network of contacts in St. John's, the former has many street friends, the latter is very good at fishing, and St. John's is a port city, and important industries are related to fishing.
When the two heard that it was for Winnie to live, they immediately rushed to ask Qin Shiou's requirements, and then mobilized friends to help find a suitable house.
Qin Shiou's plan was to get it done in three days, and Winnie would probably be discharged from the hospital for three days to recuperate, but things were almost the same that day, Reyek and Hughes Jr. collected the surrounding properties, took photos and introduced them for him to watch.
In this way, Qin Shiou did not return to the fishing ground, but lived in the city, and by the way, Zhong Dajun and Mao Weilong's family were also temporarily settled to accompany him to see the house.
On the first day, it took half a day to collect the surrounding houses for selection, and on the second day, Qin Shiou took people to observe, and the houses he looked at were all for sale, mainly high-end apartments, and after selecting a few, a single-family apartment located next to a small park entered his field of vision.
This apartment building has only been built for a few years, and it is a new building, and the owner bought it for investment. With the emergence of immigration fever, Canadian housing prices have appreciated rapidly in recent years, and the difficulty of buying a house is not only a headache for Chinese youth, but also for young white-collar workers in Canada.
There is not much room for house price appreciation in St. John's because, as mentioned earlier, this is a seaport city, and the economic center of gravity is fishing and tourism, and immigrants are rarely engaged in these two industries, so if they want to live and develop their future, they will not come here.
Of course, St. John's is a holy place for retirement, but how many immigrants are coming out to retire now? Therefore, the local housing prices have not been exaggerated, and the downtown area was more than 5,000 years ago, and now it has only risen to more than 6,000.
But even so, the white-collar and blue-collar workers in St. John's have been shouting about high housing prices every day. Every time Qin Shiou saw the cries of these people, he wanted to send them to Kyoto or the magic capital to experience them, so that they could know what desperate housing prices were!
However, if you convert, the housing price in St. John's is not low, 6,000 Canadian dollars is 30,000 yuan, but the problem is. The people who buy houses here are mainly locals, and the locals earn Canadian dollars, and the salary is Canadian dollars whether it is 46,000 or 8,000, which is Canadian dollars.
As it happens, the landlord of the single-family apartment is also an immigrant, a Singaporean. Singapore has more terrifying housing prices than China, and the man who emigrated to St. John's felt that there was a lot of room for improvement. I invested in buying this house.
As a result, the house has been listed for two years, and there are many people who look at the house, let alone buy a house. Of course, this has to do with his asking price, which averages between 6,000 and 6,500 in the city, and he asks for 7,000 here. Naturally, there are not many people looking at the house.
Another reason for the lack of viewing is that the house is a bit big. The price is a bit high, and the average person can't eat it.
This apartment building has a total of three floors, plus the attic is four floors, with two garages and a small lawn in front of the yard, and a large garden in the back, with an effective area of about 260 square meters per floor. In this way, the three floors are close to 800 square meters.
The landlord is a Singaporean-Chinese, of course, he immigrated to Singapore from his grandparents, except for his blood, he has nothing to do with Chinese, but he has the shrewdness of Chinese. The house is listed independently, and you can buy only one floor, so that you can sell it separately, which can increase the price of the house.
However, he agreed, if the whole sale was he willing to give away the attic, Qin Shiou smiled and shook his head after seeing it, how can he get the attic if he doesn't give it away? St. John's isn't New York, and who would buy a loft?
The apartment building is a very good one, with shiny tiles underneath and tasteful wooden planks on the upper floor, pale yellow overall, vines climbing on the walls, small purple flowers blooming in early spring, facing the street, garage and small lawn, and a wide garden at the back.
Qin Shiou came into the house to see, the room was richly decorated, the ground was a cork floor, and the Singaporean walked around barefoot on it after entering, boasting: "This floor is very comfortable, it is not cold to walk barefoot on it in winter, it would be better if there was a child, the child fell off the sofa, and it would not hurt to bump." ”
The floor, the palace chandelier, the long wooden table, the whole set of furniture, the clean and tidy kitchen with a full set of kitchenware, and the balcony has been transformed into a small bar where you can sit in the sun or have a drink in the afternoon, which looks very comfortable.
There was an oil painting hanging on the wall next to the staircase, and Qin Shiou saw Van Gogh's sunflowers from inside, which he was very familiar with, because he had once obtained a fake sunflower like this.
Satisfied on the whole, Qin Shiou nodded to Rejek, who said in a low voice, "Do you want to continue to see?" ”
Qin Shiou said: "Let's bargain, just buy this, there is not much money anyway." ”
Reyeke grinned, gave him a thumbs up, and praised: "You really scare people with this sentence!" ”
The landlord in Singapore is very shrewd, and the house price is 7,000 square meters, so that this apartment will have to be more than 5 million yuan to buy. This price is very high, St. John's buys a house by the set, and a villa is only five million dollars.
Moreover, the landlord also separated the garden and the garage, the garden was priced at 200,000 yuan, the two garages were 50,000 yuan, and the lawn was given to him for free, plus various taxes, Qin Shiou had to pay 6 million Canadian dollars.
It wasn't much money for him, six million was six million, but Reyek couldn't stand it, and said angrily: "You are a slaughterer, man, this price will never be sold!" Million? Ha, then why don't I go to every villa on the beachfront? ”
Singaporeans have no other shortcomings except for being a little greedy, he has a good temper, and said with a smile: "How much does the villa pay tax, do you see how much tax this apartment building pays?" Besides, apartment buildings can be used for rent, but how can villas be rented? And look at my house, how good the location is, there are hospitals, schools, parks, shopping malls around, if you are in Toronto, this house has to sell for 10 million! ”
"If you go to Kyoto, you won't be able to buy a house like this for 20 million." Mao Weilong said coldly, "But this is St. John's, isn't it?" No matter what you say, it won't change the result. ”
The Singaporean blinked and made a painful look: "Okay, I'll give you the garage, that's okay, right?" ”
"The garage and garden sent us, I won't tell you more about the house price, it's 7,000 yuan, how about it?" Qin Shiou saw that this landlord was a Grande, if he grinded the price with him, it would be grinding, otherwise the house would not have been listed for two years, and the price had not changed.
The landlord sighed bitterly, held Qin Shiou's hand and said, "Who made us all Chinese?" For the sake of our ancestors, as you said, when will it be delivered? ”
"Right now." (To be continued.) )