My Age of Investment

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Regarding the housing market, Xia Jingxing talked with Jiang Ping and Liu Hai very much, and they chatted from the study room to the dinner table.

The foreign girl was listening and found it interesting, so she took the initiative to join the discussion.

She chewed her food and muttered, "The housing prices in the United States have risen too much in the past few years. Take the villa under our feet as an example. Last year, the price was only 5 million U.S. dollars. This year, it will cost at least 6 million U.S. dollars." Down."

Liu Hai chuckled, "It's not too much of an exaggeration to leave a 20% increase."

"Isn't that an exaggeration? Our family bought a vacation home in Texas before. It's been almost ten years, and it hasn't increased by 20%."

The foreign girl shook her head while talking, "My father heard that housing prices in California are going up well, so he plans to come to California to buy a house.

A Texas real estate agent came to the country club they belonged to sell, and wanted them to form a group to buy a house in California. He said that the house price here is rising rapidly, and there is no down payment. It is equivalent to half of the house price or even more profit. "

"Hahaha~"

Hearing this, Liu Hai laughed out loud. He has learned enough about real estate agents fooling people recently. In order to earn commissions, real estate agents all over the United States have suddenly changed their sex and become more diligent.

This also confirms in disguise the speculation that there is a bubble in the real estate market.

He glanced at Xia Jingxing jokingly, your father-in-law is going to flip a house at this juncture, do you care?

Xia Jingxing also thought it was funny, and said to the foreign girl, "You should persuade Mr. Walsh to save some effort. It's a good thing he can figure it out after traveling so far to speculate in real estate."

He felt that this scene was also quite magical, and the same scene would be staged in China many years later.

"Why? There's no risk anyway. If you come to buy a suite, it's considered a tourist. Even if you can't pay the loan, you don't want the house."

The foreign girl spread her hands, as if she didn't understand.

Xia Jingxing felt that the thinking of foreign girls represented the thinking of most Americans at this time, and they didn't believe that housing prices would collapse at all, maybe they didn't even think about it.

The United States has made the world a mess in the past few decades, but the country has been enjoying good weather, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the social environment and economic environment are praised by the world, and it has become a beacon country that everyone yearns for.

If someone suddenly jumps out and says that housing prices are about to collapse, I'm afraid they will become the laughing stock and fools of everyone.

Xia Jingxing didn't hide anything from the foreign girl, and completely explained the basis for his judgment of bearishness on the US housing market.

"If you put it that way, I also think that the house price has indeed risen a bit outrageously."

The foreign girl nodded, as if she had realized something.

Like an emotionless mathematical machine, Jiang Ping reported several sets of data.

"In 2005, the average price of single-family homes in the United States rose by more than 50%, and some popular areas even increased even more, such as an average increase of 79% in New York and an average increase of 110% in Los Angeles."

Jiang Ping looked around the house, "Your house has a large area and is not the most popular house type, so the increase is relatively small."

The foreign girl nodded. Although this house does not match their super rich status, the price of several million dollars is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Basically, only the executives of large companies in Silicon Valley can afford it. It will exclude most of the buyers.

For ordinary houses, with zero down payment and only a small amount of mortgage interest paid in the past few years, people's unprecedented buying sentiment has boosted the rise in housing prices.

"According to the housing price index of major US cities, housing prices in the top ten US cities in June 2006 were 2.9 times those in December 1996."

Xia Jingxing looked at the foreign girl with a smile, "Do you know what this means?"

"What?" asked the foreign girl.

"It means that a beautiful bubble has been blown!" Xia Jingxing drew a big circle with both hands.

"so……"

Speaking of this, Yang Niu paused, glanced at Jiang Ping and Liu Hai,

As smart as she is, she immediately thought of a lot. If it was for no reason, her boyfriend would not call the two generals of his hedge fund to his home.

There must be a major financial action!

Yang Niu had already guessed in her heart that it was close to ten, but she didn't break the casserole and ask the bottom line.

Instead, it changed the subject.

"Daren, the land in Los Altos can't be left unused forever. What are you going to do with it? Affected by the rise in housing prices, the land should have increased a lot. Do you want to sell it?"

Xia Jingxing looked at Yang Niu with a smile. He knew that Yang Niu had judged a lot of things, so he planned to play a trick of selling high and buying low?

But how much is that? Is it worth tossing back and forth? There is no shortage of those three melons and two dates.

"Not for sale!"

Xia Jingxing shook his head, if the foreign girl didn't mention it, he would have almost forgotten about the barren hills.

Last year, all the funds in his hands were planned, and private funds were not abundant. The construction of the manor came to a standstill after the design drawings were released and the land was simply leveled.

Some time ago, he sold the last 80,000 shares in his hand while the stock price of Amico broke through the high of 106 US dollars, and returned more than 8 million US dollars of funds, which should be enough to pay for the early stage construction.

It will definitely not be a problem for him to pay the remaining tens of millions of dollars in construction fees next year or the year after that.

In fact, he still didn't want to keep embezzling the money in the various funds of Vision Capital, otherwise he would build a manor, and there would be no need to repair it.

In addition, he also wants to apply some smart home products to his estate.

It's a pity that the current technology can't break through for a long time, so I can only learn from Gates and spend money regardless of the cost. Laying dozens of kilometers of cables underground is a luxury even thinking about it.

"Call the designer tomorrow, let's go and look at the land together, and start construction after confirming that there is no problem."

The foreign girl nodded and said hello.

Jiang Ping didn't know that Xia Jingxing still had a piece of land, so he asked more, "Jing Xing, are you not satisfied with the current house? I think it's pretty good!"

In addition to being the fund manager, Liu Hai also served as the supervisor and liaison officer of Xia Jingxing Manor, and was responsible for a bunch of chores in house construction.

He smiled and explained to Jiang Ping: "Brother Jiang Ping, you don't know. Now this villa is just bought as a temporary transition. Jingxing's dream big house is a botanical garden, a zoo, a basketball court, a tennis court, and a helipad. The facilities, the combination of nature and modern technology, the scenery directly catches up with the 5A scenic spot... a place for self-cultivation!"

A series of nouns and adjectives made Jiang Ping dizzy, and he didn't bother to ask, anyway, he just knew that it was very embarrassing.

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the next day.

Xia Jingxing and Yang Niu came to the barren mountain by car, and they were accompanied by Pei Lizhong, the founder of Pei Construction, and he was also the third son of Pei Ming.

Stepping on the land of the barren hill, Xia Jingxing surveyed the surrounding area. Compared with last year, this land of more than ten acres and more than 40,000 square meters was much flatter. The lush bushes before were all felled and turned into an endless stretch. flat lawn.

Bai Lizhong was in his fifties, wearing a black suit, with a refined demeanor, he seemed to be a learned man.

After he obtained a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University in 1976, he has been helping his father and participated in the design of famous projects such as the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, the Bank of China Tower in Beijing, and the Suzhou Museum.

Xia Jingxing originally wanted to ask I.M. Pei to do the surgery, but the old man was devoting himself to the finishing work for the Suzhou Museum and had no time for him, so he recommended his youngest son to do the design of the manor.

Bai Lizhong asked his assistant to set up a wooden shelf in the wasteland, and nailed the design drawing of Mish in length and width to the shelf with thumbtacks.

"Mr. Xia, Miss Christina, this is our architectural design drawing. You can come and have a look. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can directly raise it. We will modify it until you are satisfied."

Bai Lizhong smiled and looked at the young man and woman not far away, with a polite attitude and a warm tone.

Because for their architectural firm, Xia Jingxing is a walking human-shaped gold mine, Facebook, Youtube, Vision Capital, Hainei... These companies may all build headquarters buildings in the future.

He originally offered to waive the design fee this time, but it was Xia Jingxing who insisted on paying for it.

Yang Niu approached with Xia Jingxing's hand, looked at the design drawing nailed on the shelf, looked at it carefully for a while, and smiled slightly, "Mr. Bei, can you introduce us?"

Xia Jingxing also nodded, "Yes, I don't quite understand it, I need you to introduce it."

Bai Lizhong smiled, and did not directly introduce the manor, but listed the famous mansions in the world.

Villa Leopold, built by King Leopold II of Belgium 104 years ago, is located on the French Riviera. $750 million at the time), Mr. Gates was also its previous owner...

Known as the "Atlantic Versailles", the New York Fairfield Sunset House covers an area of ​​63 acres and is valued at 250 million US dollars. There is also a power plant in the manor...

Larry Ellison spent 200 million US dollars to build a Japanese-style manor in 2004. It is equipped with artificial lakes, tea rooms, baths and koi ponds. It covers an area of ​​23 acres...

Edun Court in London, with a garden of 40,000 square meters and a private forest of 200,000 square meters, covers an area of ​​23.47 hectares and is valued at US$150 million...

The Hearst Manor in Beverly Hills with an estimated value of 165 million US dollars, the Peak Park in the Yellowstone Club with an estimated value of 155 million US dollars, and the Holmby Mountain Estate in Los Angeles with an estimated value of 150 million US dollars...

Bai Lizhong introduced to Xia Jingxing more than a dozen sets of the world's top private mansions, even the 1 billion US dollars that India's Ambani is building. He introduced the design style and characteristic structure of each mansion one by one.

"These mansions have their own characteristics, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they cover a large area."

Xia Jingxing and Yang Niu looked at each other. They thought their house was quite big, but they didn't expect it to be quite small.

Among this pile of mansions, even Gates' Xanadu 2.0 is not ranked high. Whether it is the cost, valuation, or the land occupation and construction area, it is not as good as the trench introduced by Bailey.

Xia Jingxing signaled Bai Lizhong to continue the introduction.

"My idea is to design a palace-style main villa with an area of ​​3,000 square meters and a construction area of ​​5,000 to 6,000 square meters. The rest of the land of nearly 40,000 square meters can be used to create sports areas, leisure and entertainment areas. , and planted some olive, cypress, orange and lemon trees as decorations..."

Xia Jingxing suddenly fell silent.

Bai Lizhong didn't know what was going on, so he stopped talking and waited quietly by the side.

"How about buying the whole mountain?"

Xia Jingxing pointed around, "All those uneven places should be used to plant trees and flowers, and expand the area of ​​private gardens and private forests."

Yang Niu was completely dumbfounded. When she realized it, she immediately pinched Xia Jingxing from behind and gave Xia Jingxing a look.

Xia Jingxing knew that the foreign girl was worried about the money, but the money was earned and spent, and the pockets were all set up, and they just waited for the fish to jump in, so why not reward yourself in advance?

He patted the foreign girl's hand, smiled and gave him a look, indicating that it was all trivial.

Bai Lizhong looked around and replied with a smile: "To be honest, Mr. Xia, you have a good vision and you are very considerate.

When the entire mountain is bought, privacy and security can be maximized, which is important to you as celebrities.

Let’s go back to the design of the manor. If there is a whole mountain for me to splash ink on, then I can use my imagination to the greatest extent and truly create a work that breaks through my peak. "

Xia Jingxing didn't think about it so much, he just heard that the area of ​​the house was dozens of acres, so he had the idea of ​​making gestures in his heart.

This is actually the same as buying a car. Originally, I just planned to buy a domestic car, but suddenly I thought about adding tens of thousands to buy a joint venture car. After a while, I thought about adding tens of thousands to buy an entry-level BBA...

Finally found myself buying a Rolls Royce!

"However, Mr. Xia, I still have to remind you."

Bai Lizhong watched Xia Jingxing, he was not worried about Xia Jingxing's financial resources, but worried that the employer would regret it in the future and blame him as a designer.

Young rich people, they think about it as soon as they think about it, and they are prone to impulsive consumption.

Bailey said in a solemn tone: "This land is called a mountain, but it is actually just a small bag of land. The terrain is not a big problem. It is surrounded by Palo Alto and Los Altos, adjacent to Silicon Valley and Stanford, and is located in the San Francisco Bay. District, location is no problem.

The only problem is that it does not rely on the sea! The best living environment is still surrounded by mountains and rivers..."

Xia Jingxing interrupted, "Then dig an artificial lake, a sea view villa, and just buy another one later."

The employer is so generous, if there is anything else to say in the ceremony, just do it.

"Mr. Na Xia, you arranged to buy all the surrounding land, and I will give you a new design drawing."

Xia Jingxing nodded. This is his first self-built mansion, so he must not wrong himself.

In the future, if there is a suitable opportunity, he also wants to buy some real estate in New York, Los Angeles and other places.

Said it was a backup, but in fact he still wanted to turn each property into a palace or another courtyard, each with its own characteristics, so he didn't just settle for it.

"By the way, Mr. Bei, you also participated in the design of the Suzhou Museum. I have seen the photos that have been circulated. It really restores the oriental charm of Suzhou gardens. It is very remarkable."

Bai Lizhong grinned, "Our family's ancestral home is in Suzhou. When my father was young, there was a lion forest at home, so we were forced by our father to learn Suzhou garden-style architectural design since we were young."

Xia Jingxing nodded. The Pei family is a prominent family in Suzhou, with a long history of family education. I.M. Pei's father was also the general manager of the Hong Kong branch of Bank of China 90 years ago.

"I like Suzhou garden architecture very much. If there is a chance, I may have to work hard for Mr. Pei to help design another house."

Hearing this, Bai Lizhong immediately burst into joy, and said with a smile: "Okay, I will try my best to design a house that satisfies you, Mr. Xia."

After chatting for a while, everyone got into their cars and drove away.

As soon as she got in the car, the foreign girl asked, "Why are you building so many houses? And you want to buy this mountain."

"Housing is not speculation, oh, I was wrong, housing speculation occasionally lives, hey, what do you know as a woman?"

Xia Jingxing thought that if he built twenty-four houses around the world and named them after his funds, it would be a good idea.

This kind of life of building a palace around the world, I am afraid that the emperors in ancient times did not have this kind of treatment, and they could go to the countryside of Chengde to escape the summer heat.

Thinking of all this, Xia Jingxing suddenly felt elated, this is called life.

If you have longing and longing for a better life in your heart, you will not get tired of working.

"You can be proud. The original land and construction of this house on the mountain cost nearly 100 million US dollars. Now that you have expanded it, 200 million US dollars may not be able to survive."

The foreign girl didn't understand the Chinese people's deep-rooted feelings for land and houses, and thought Xia Jingxing was a bit extravagant.

She also likes beautiful houses, but she knows how her boyfriend's money comes from, and she is still burdened with billions of dollars in loans, so she can't let it go.

"Not only do I want to build a house, I also want to buy a small island to play sometime, so that I can enjoy being the owner of the island."

The foreign girl sneered, "Just buy it, can you live in so many houses?"

"Spiritual enjoyment, you don't understand, you can pass it on to your children and grandchildren in the future. Didn't the declining nobles in Europe just sell their ancestors' belongings, rent out castles to open hotels, build tourist attractions and collect tickets to make a living?"

The foreign girl smiled disdainfully, "Do you think they can keep their ancestral property like this? Let me tell you, there are very few who can make money, and the inheritance tax is a life-threatening knife.

The last time I was on a business trip to Europe, some brokers asked me if I wanted a castle. This princess and that grand duke made up a bunch of stories to boost their value.

I won't be fooled by them, whoever buys the castle will be unlucky. "

"You should buy it!"

Xia Jingxing was in a hurry to slap his thighs, set up a castle, and sell it to a local tycoon in China in the future. Can this business lose money?

In a few years, the domestic rich will not have a vineyard or castle in Europe, and they will be ashamed to greet people when they go out.

The two chatted about the house in the car, chatting all the way, from the United States to Europe, then to Africa, Asia...

When I was almost home, Yang Niu received a call.

"Dad, are you coming to San Francisco?"

"If you don't live in our house, where do you live?"

"Live in a tent???"

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