Throughout the afternoon, after finishing his official work, Simon spent the rest of his time looking at houses.
Changping District not only has the Rose Garden villa area controlled by the Westeros system, but also has many high-end villa projects. Chen Qing also carried out a sweep a few years ago.
In a villa area called Bishui Manor on the banks of the Nansha River and near the Shahe Reservoir.
Chen Qing took her boss into a villa and introduced: "This property was developed in 1994, two years later than the Rose Garden. However, it was successfully opened in 1995 because it is next to the water and the location is excellent. The current average price is around 6,000, boss, guess what the house price was when it opened in 1995?"
Most of the other people had already left. Apart from the security guards and other entourage, there were only a few women left, including Jill Pecter and Charlotte Brenita. Simon was not in the mood to guess. He looked at the building, which was only about 400 square meters. The single-family villas on the left and right asked: "How much is it?"
"2500," Chen Qing said without forcing her boss to guess: "It was launched in June 1995, and now, in two and a half years, the value has more than doubled. The current occupancy rate of the original two hundred villas is more than 70%. , is considered the best-selling villa area in Changping District. Among the remaining villas, I selected 27 with better locations and larger apartments at once, and I only got a 13% discount after bargaining."
Chen Qing spoke with great interest, and Simon was even more emotional when he heard this.
If people ten or twenty years from now hear that the house price of 2,500 square meters per square meter in Beijing is still a top-level villa, they will probably feel unreal.
Charlotte Brenita, who was standing next to her, interrupted: "Chen, the occupancy rate of 70% is not high, right?"
"It depends on comparison," Chen Qing said: "In recent years, villas in the capital area have been mainly provided to overseas investors and a very small number of people who got rich first. However, as you just saw on the road, the surrounding areas are basically still rural. Unlike in the West, where wealthy people are accustomed to living in the suburbs, and the environment of wealthy areas in the suburbs is also very good, here, in short, wealthy Chinese people don’t like properties that are too remote.”
As everyone talked, they came upstairs to the villa. Several women gathered around Simon and walked to the viewing terrace, looking around. Because it faces the Nansha River and is next to a reservoir, the greening in this villa area is obviously better than that of the rose garden, so it's okay. It won't give people a sense of remoteness deep in the countryside.
In comparison, the area around my own rose garden is completely connected to the surrounding villages, which is really unsatisfactory.
If there are any shortcomings.
The sizes of the houses here are not large, basically between 200 and 400 square meters.
However, Simon doesn’t plan to live on his own anyway. He just bought it and stocked it up, and it will definitely not be a loss. With Simon's net worth, he would have to stock up on at least 27,000 units to be more consistent with his status. Of course, it's not good to be empty, so I plan to hide my beauty in a golden house as much as possible. If I don't pretend to be a woman in a few neighborhoods, I won't be embarrassed to say hello to others when I go out, right
With this in mind, Simon said to Gil Peckett: "Look here, you'd better operate like this around the rose garden."
Jill nodded and said: "Boss, Annie and I visited here a long time ago. However, the inside of the rose garden is already very complicated. As for the surrounding area, we can't control it."
Chen Qing said from the side: "As long as you have money, since the boss wants to continue to bet, we can just buy more surrounding land."
Round-cheeked Zhao Anni interrupted weakly from the side: "Actually, it's all about money."
Charlotte Brenita said: "Simon, I think you have bet too much in the real estate field?"
"You have to understand, Charlotte, many times, effort is not important, direction is the most important."
Charlotte Brenita shook her head: "I don't quite understand."
Chen Qing heard something from her boss, and said at this time: "The boss believes that the prosperity of the real estate industry is an inevitable trend in the rapid economic development stage of every country. Europe, North America, Japan, and other Southeast Asian countries have all experienced real estate booms. .”
Charlotte Brenita said: "Then, everything was shattered?"
"Oh, yes, but China's real estate industry has just started. Now is the best opportunity to get involved. We only need to exit at the right opportunity in the future."
"Not to mention whether we can seize the right opportunity to exit," Charlotte Brenita looked at Simon again and said: "The question is whether China's real estate industry will prosper is still unknown. I have also learned some information. Many areas in China are still in the midst of a welfare housing distribution system. Even if policy trends show that this system will be gradually abolished, it is difficult to say how long it will take, and whether it will never happen again."
When Simon saw the Swiss girl looking at him with an inquiring look on her face, he didn't want to waste any time explaining. Anyway, this woman was not responsible for this part of the business. He half-jokingly said: "The water is very deep here. You can't control it. Let Xiao Qing They are responsible.”
When the Swiss girl saw what Simon said, she wisely stopped asking further questions.
In fact, Simon's deepest understanding of China's real estate industry can be described in a joke.
Two people in the 1990s started with the same RMB 5 million. One bought a house and lived leisurely, while the other devoted himself to starting a business and worked hard. Twenty years later, the man who bought several houses as a renter became a billionaire inexplicably, while the man who focused on industry worked for twenty years and gave everything, but ended up with a debt of 5 million and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Again, choosing the right direction is important.
On the other hand, in Simon's view, this is actually a kind of ebb and flow of social resources.
When the industrial situation of a society all focuses on real estate, it naturally means the accumulation of wealth.
In this case, whether it is active or forced, if a person does not want his wealth to shrink, he has no choice but to invest in real estate. If you walk any other way, it will either be bumpy and raviney, or it will be an abyss.
Is there any solution
have.
Unfortunately, the price is too high, so we can only delay it day by day. No one knows what the final result will be. Countries in the East and the West, countries that have experienced real estate booms, have basically been delayed until the end.
Simon's choice to stock up on houses was not only a personal hobby, but also because he understood certain things.
Just like now, a villa only costs one or two million. In ten or twenty years, it can increase in value to at least one or two million. Calculated based on 20 years, the return will be 10 times, and the annualized income will also reach 16%. See Not much, it seems. However, in comparison, when investing in other fields, only a few top investors such as Buffett can ensure that the average annual return is above this number.
After looking at a few villas here, the group left Bishui Manor and rushed to another villa area in the south called Longcheng Garden. This villa area was also built several years later than Rose Garden. It just opened last year. With an average price of 5,000, Chen Qing purchased hundreds of properties at a time at a very favorable price.
It was not until night fell that the group returned to the city.
After dinner, there was still socializing in the evening. This time it was at the headquarters of the Human Society on the seaside. It was a small gathering of a few entrepreneurs belonging to the Westeros system. It was nothing too formal. They just drank, chatted and listened to music, and occasionally chatted. Talk about the general economic situation and so on.
After socializing until about ten o'clock in the evening, they returned to Mao'er Hutong again. Simon had just gotten off the car in the underground parking lot when he saw Qin Buzui sitting on the sofa against the wall holding a magazine, looking very leisurely.
Seeing Simon get out of the car, the girl stood up and came over.
Simon hugged this tall girl with natural smiling lips and asked with a smile: "Why are you hiding here alone?"
Qin Buzui didn't hide anything, he raised a finger and pointed upward: "There are so many up there, so big."
Simon understood it as soon as he heard it.
This is also a girl whose outlook on life was refreshed by a group of aggressive girls in the mansion.
Smiling, after Qin Bului greeted Chen Qing, Britta and Jill, Simon put his arm around the girl's slender waist and said, "Come take a bath with me. By the way, how are you doing?"
Qin Bului also hugged Simon's arm, leaned his tall body against the man, and said, "It's not bad. I just came back from Singapore yesterday."
Simon led the girl directly through the underground corridor and asked with a smile: "Travel?"
"Um."
"You can't be alone, right? It's New Year here?"
"And Michelle will accompany me," Qin Buzui said. Seeing Simon's confusion, he added: "My female guard."
Simon remembered something: "Where are your mother and your sister?"
Qin Buzui blinked and looked at the man beside him: "Don't you know?"
"This, I really don't know."
"Then I don't know, I don't care about them."
Seeing that the girl next to him frowned and didn't want to talk about it, Simon didn't mention it much. The two of them came to the changing room by the swimming pool and walked in together. The Jiangshan Wu sisters who originally wanted to follow saw this and stopped knowingly.
We changed our clothes and soaked in the hot spring pool of the underground swimming pool together.
Qin Buzui, who had already made a little initiative in the changing room, learned about the man's recent plans and didn't bother him. He just leaned in the man's arms and chatted with her.
Then Chen Qing, Jill and Charlotte also rushed over.
Everyone was soaking in the pool together. The eight aggressive girls from last night appeared again, but this time they could only serve.
Some of the girls looked very resentful because of this.
Simon opened their eyes last night. It turned out that they could play this way and that, but in the end, there was no last step.
It was a complete failure.
After all, these girls know very well that only by reaching the final step with Simon Westeros can they go further. Just like at this moment, they can only serve by the side. The one in the pool is obviously the kind who is very close to the man. .
Chen Qing happened to notice the resentful expression of the girl named Zhuo Wei next to her, and offered a reward on the spot.
If anyone can make her boss make an exception, she has a grand prize.
It's a pity that even if Chen Qing said it seriously, the girls didn't dare to act recklessly. However, Qin Buzui responded to Chen Qing's call and actually succeeded. After all, Simon was normal and the group of girls around him were dumbfounded.
However, Simon and Chen Qing jointly determined that Qin Buzui’s score was invalid.
Because it wasn't Simon who took the initiative.
And it’s just a scratch on the water, it has a beginning but no end.
Since his boss didn't plan to do anything, the night was still occupied by Chen Qing, and even Qin Buzui was driven away. In fact, no one dared to compete with Chen Qing.
In the blink of an eye it's a new day.
It's February 2nd, a new Monday.
The sixth day of the first lunar month.
Although many people have returned to work, the New Year atmosphere in Beijing remains the same.
It's just that the weather was not very good this Monday, and there was another sandstorm. When I got up early and went to the yard, the sky and the earth were gray, and Simon had to go back indoors quickly.
Have dinner with Chen Qing in the morning and discuss today's events.
Chen Qing just got some information today. Regarding South Korea, when some chaebol oligarchs such as Samsung Group called on their employees to donate their gold to the country to increase foreign exchange reserves, during this period, the gold donation movement in South Korea was booming. Get started.
This actually has its origins.
Back when Korea was occupied by Japan, at the beginning of the century, Japan forcibly borrowed money from South Korea in order to gain control over the Korean economy and even the entire South Korea. In order to get rid of Japan's loan control, South Korea's upper elite launched the "National Debt Repayment Movement", which was also a call for Citizens donated money and materials.
However, that national debt repayment movement was forcibly interrupted by the Japanese. In the following years, South Korea became a Japanese colony until the end of World War II.
This time, even though the previous deep-seated goals of the International Monetary Fund loan were almost exactly the same as Japan’s forced loan to South Korea, the difference is that no one is stopping the patriotic behavior of South Koreans. Not only that, in order to increase the self-confidence and sense of honor of the Koreans, Simon saw the news and asked Chen Qing to contact the United States and arrange for mainstream media in North America to report it.
In short, it is still the same sentence, the spirit of the Korean people must be fully satisfied.
As for whether this donation campaign, which no one will stop anymore, is useful
of course not.
The fact is that after the financial crisis in 1997, South Korea's economy was completely liberalized. On the surface, economic lifelines such as automobiles and semiconductors still seemed to be in the hands of South Korean chaebols, but in fact, controlling stakes were gradually acquired by foreign capital. Moreover, this time Western capital still adopted the strategy of the colonial era and continued to let local people control local capital.
Therefore, to put it bluntly, although South Korea's chaebols appear to be prosperous on the surface, in fact, they can basically only be regarded as stewards of Western capital.
This will be the case in both timelines.
Chen Qing discussed this matter with her boss, finalized the plan, and talked about another thing: "If nothing happens, we will be able to get the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Itaewon and the land next to it in the near future. .Boss, what kind of house do you want this time?”
"A more modern manor will do. You can make a few plans for me to see first." Simon said, then asked: "By the way, how much does it cost?"
"We are still talking about the land attached to the east side of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. This is the top priority, mainly how much area we can get. However, the Grand Hyatt Hotel itself is about US$250 million, including the surrounding area. The land parcel will not exceed US$300 million.”
Simon nodded.
Buying a hotel that is almost the top hotel in South Korea for US$300 million is a good deal, not to mention the land that comes with it for development. In the crowded Seoul area, especially in the city center where land is at a premium, it is not easy to obtain several hectares of land.