"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is indeed the garden that Mr. Li managed when he was at his most prosperous. Every plant and tree is really worth the effort."
Standing in the new garden on the Peak of Victoria Peak, overlooking Victoria Bay with a glass of cognac, a hint of a victor's triumphant smile appeared on Gu Kun's lips.
This garden was originally supposed to have another name, but it has not been completely renovated, so it has not been hung up. Now, the original signboard is definitely no longer in use, and the unfinished decoration must be slightly adjusted according to Gu Kun's wishes.
, only then does it appear to be a new owner and a new atmosphere.
Gu Kun planned to change the name of the garden's sign to "Youlan Garden".
There is no typo, it is the word "you", not the word "you" which leads to a winding path.
The word "you", which leads to winding paths, is fine as a name for a certain scene in the manor, but as a name for the garden as a whole, it seems a bit too out-of-the-way.
Besides, the Grand View Garden in Dream of Red Mansions directly says "winding paths lead to secluded places". After all, it was only written by someone like Jia Baoyu. Jia Baoyu was not a person who did big things. How could Gu Kun draw on that kind of aloofness?
What a gloomy outlook on life.
Changing the word "you" to "you" just brings the leisure and ease, and removes the darkness.
The garden covers an area of nearly 100,000 square feet, that is, 9,000 square meters. In the end, it actually cost 600 million Hong Kong dollars, which translates to an area of 70,000 Hong Kong dollars per square meter.
On the eve of the handover in 1997, when the Hong Kong property market bubble was at its hottest, those high-end apartments near Victoria Bay, not the first-line ones facing the harbor, cost close to HK$100,000 per square meter. The expensive areas in Kowloon next to the bay also cost
60,000 to 70,000, only second-tier areas like Sham Shui Po and Yau Ma Tei have prices below 50,000. The cheapest ones are in suburban counties like Tsuen Wan and Shatin.
The property market in March 2000 dropped by one-third from its peak in June 1997. Apartments on the island generally cost more than 50,000 per square meter, and Barker Road on the Peak was more than five times more expensive than those apartments. So 70,000 Hong Kong dollars per square meter.
Square meters, it is indeed a low price that can be cut down again and again.
If Boss Li hadn't been hemorrhaging this time, even if Gu Kun waited naturally and waited until the historical turning point of the lowest housing prices in Hong Kong at the end of 2002 and early 2003 before selling, the cheapest price would be about 150,000 per square meter.
After all, this is floor space, not the "building area" of high-rise buildings. Every inch of land is of real value.
The villas in this garden are built on an average of three floors, with some raised landscape platforms, and the sky swimming pool is also raised. Even if the swimming pool area is not included, the rest of the construction area easily exceeds 10,000.
It's a pity that since the renovation is not completed, we can't live in it yet. I just came here to take a look and declare my sovereignty.
Gu Kun asked his female secretary to hire a decoration company, a non-British style one, and paid the money to tell the progress: "I'll give you three months to finish the remaining work, and then let the smell go. I'm going to do it in July."
I’m going to participate in the Olympics, and when I return home in early August, I’ll see that people can live here.”
"Okay Mr. Gu, I will never delay you."
It’s too hot in Lanzhou in August, so we still have to make good preparations to escape the summer heat in the mainland.
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After the hilltop mansion "Youlan Garden" on Barker Road changed hands, the property market in Xiangjiang actually showed some reaction the next day.
Although there is no visible fluctuation in the market price, the trading volume and the number of consultation intentions have obviously increased slightly.
Obviously, many people who have been waiting on the sidelines for three years are afraid that Gu Kun's intervention will cause the market trend to change, and finally they no longer hold back.
Boss Li calmed down and waited for two more days to confirm that the wind direction had indeed changed. Some properties even started to rise in price against the market trend, so he had to accept this shocking setting.
"The influence of an outsider like Gu Kun in the Xiangjiang property market has actually exceeded mine?" Boss Li was very unwilling.
However, he is actually a little over-concerned. The reason for this is that he has always given people the impression of being rich and unkind. As a bookmaker in the circle, what he said about the rise and fall of the property market will of course be shared by others.
Natural resistance.
And Gu Kun gave people the impression that he was an outsider with no stakes involved, but he was also an international observer who often came to do heroic things and traveled thousands of miles to the mainland. Of course, more people believed in his attitude.
In order to further stabilize Gu Kun, after confirming the sealing effect, within two or three days, Boss Li successively transferred several other lower-grade luxury properties that he had previously promised to Gu Kun, either half-sold and half-free, or simply given away for free.
Kun's hand.
There is a large villa with a private water park in Repulse Bay.
A clubhouse with a yacht marina in Victoria Bay,
There is also an estate with a mini private golf course in Fanling, a county in the northern suburbs of Hong Kong. A standard golf course usually covers an area of thirty to fifty hectares. The smallest five-hole golf course is at least two hectares of land.
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The mini golf estate that Boss Li gave to Gu Kun covers an area of three and a half hectares. In a city like Xiangjiang, it is definitely not available in the urban area, so it can only be obtained in the suburban counties, but it is already very valuable.
Counting the first Barker Road mansion, Gu Kun received more than 200 million US dollars in interest transfers when he purchased it. The following three properties were added together, and the interest transfers received were lower than the current market price, adding up to at least two
More than 100 million.
Considering that according to the original history, housing prices in Xiangjiang will continue to decline in the next two to three years. Even compared with the record low bargaining price, Gu Kun has actually saved at least US$300 million.
In other words, he actually paid a total of 200 million to buy four properties with a current price of 700 million and a future historical low price of 500 million US dollars.
From hilltop villas, to beach water parks, to port area marina clubs, to suburban golf courses and racecourses, four major categories are available. Basically, they are high-end luxury clubs that can be enjoyed in this three-acre area of Xiangjiang.
All types of manor have been explored.
Others rushed to beg him to accept it, just to show his optimism for the relevant industries in Hong Kong.
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Under the premise that the other party showed weakness and surrendered, Gu Kun naturally reciprocated favors and sold personal favors in other areas of the HSBC auction.
On March 10, in a round of bidding for the equity of several invested projects of Yingke Digital, Gu Kun took action for the first time, bidding US$50 million, and passed the first round of secret bidding.
At that time, he was bidding for 40% of the shares of an online entertainment company called Zhonglian Technology.
This is a technology company founded in 1998 to develop an online game platform for board and card games. Since it has no profit model, it has always been a charity operation that does not charge money for free play. Therefore, it definitely needs external venture capital. I have received many from Yingke Digital before.
The money has only been burned to this day.
Now that Yingke Digital is going to collapse, the shares of Zhonglian Technology held by Yingke will of course be sold at a low price.
Gu Kun paid 50 million to be shortlisted. In fact, it was not a huge premium. Compared with Yingke’s original investment when it entered the market, it was less than five times higher.
In the field of Internet venture capital, from the angel round to the A round, the B round was interrupted. After two years in the middle, it only increased five times. It is indeed very small. Generally, a company that develops well can climb from obscurity to
Being at the top of the industry, it is very easy to increase by 20 times.
This platform currently only operates a few simple online poker games such as Landlords. It does not have other poker games or even mahjong. However, it has occupied the first place in the domestic online card game field, with 3.5 million people playing online.
I have registered an account and played poker.
After being shortlisted, HSBC also announced the secret bids of each shortlisted company in the first round, and then asked them to bid a second time - don't think that HSBC uses all possible means to raise prices, because this is the bank's response to the pledge explosion.
Of course, the foreclosure of the warehouse should be as vicious as possible and try every means to get interested buyers to drive up the price.
The combination of secret bid finalists and on-site auction finals is to maximize the bid, so as to avoid the possibility that during the direct auction, if the base price is not set high enough and one of the first few bidders uses psychological warfare to suddenly raise the price range, the price range will be very high.
Intimidate other opponents from following up.
One more round of hidden bidding is to allow everyone to fully consider the psychological price when they first set it, and fully use the suspicion chain to set the pace first.
From the shortlist of secret bids announced, Gu Kun saw that in the first round of secret bidding, only the South African MIH Group bid higher than him, reaching more than 70 million US dollars.
After entering the direct bidding auction, Gu Kun decisively added a few times, and even secretly negotiated and chatted with people from MIH in the venue, saying that he was not very interested in the operation of this platform, but only in supervision and control.
The interest is relatively high. If MIH is willing to promise not to expand the scope of gray business in the future, Gu Kun can let it go.
But if MIH wants to expand into the gray area, Gu Kun will definitely lobby the regulators to take heavy measures.
The people at MIH understood the logic of Gu Kun's secret and felt that there was really not much room for imagination, so they stopped when they reached about 80 million US dollars.
Gu Kun finally acquired 40% of the equity of the chess and card platform Zhonglian Technology for US$90 million.
After getting it, Gu Kun also made a gentleman's agreement with the people at MIH and let go of the other two small projects that the South Africans were interested in. Everyone was part bidding and part bidding and living in harmony with each other in a fair competition - it wasn't actually bid rigging, just because
There are too few people who have the vision and are willing to enter the market. Except for Gu Kun and MIH, there are really not many other participants who know the goods and have the courage.
Soon, the equity bidding/auction activity entered its third week, and Gu Kun found a target that MIH was almost unlikely to let go of.
25% of the shares of Tengyun Technology were put on the table and will be auctioned the next day.
As for MIH, on the first day of the secret bidding stage, they had already raised over US$100 million, and they seemed not to want to let go of this bid.
Gu Kun didn't really want to be taken advantage of, so he suddenly had an idea and realized that he could ask Boss Li to pay for part of the bill for him.
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(PS: Based on recent comments, let me say a few words.
The book does not say that Boss Li is about to be destroyed now. So I ask many book friends not to make assumptions based on the positions in other people’s books. In fact, I have never read some of the other books mentioned in your book review section.
I am aware of its existence. I am not a writer of books about financial speculation. If you look through my original works, you will know what fields I focus on. Finance actually only accounts for a small part of this book.
I can honestly say that no matter what Boss Li is like, at least so far in the book, he has not offended Gu Kun. Mr. Li was just killed by the AOE of the butterfly effect. This is an "incident", not an "event".
"Act", it was not that Gu Kun deliberately destroyed him.
Gu Kun is not a crazy guy who kills rich people when he sees them. After all, his hatred is based on the basic law of grudges, right. From Chen Mingcheng to Kong Shangzhong, Soros, those who couldn't get along with Gu Kun were destroyed and weakened. It's not simple.