Chapter 197 (1/2)
Since he wants to buy a house, Simon naturally chooses the best one.
However, it's only the 1980s now, and many years later, there are almost no luxury houses with prices of hundreds of millions of dollars. Even Kensington Garden Street, which later gathered some of the most expensive properties in the world, is now worth only tens of millions of yuan. Simon's five story villa with more than 30 rooms on Kensington Garden Street is priced at 18 million pounds, which is already the most expensive of 16 luxury houses.
Under the advice of Janet, Simon quickly looked through the 16 sets of real estate information in his hands.
Although the prices of luxury houses in this era are not expensive as a whole, it takes 178 million US dollars to convert them into US dollars, with an average of 11 million US dollars per house.
Except for the half acre mansion on Kensington Garden Street, many other properties can be measured in hectares. A manor with a price of 120 million francs in the west end of Paris covers an area of 22 hectares, which is about 17 million US dollars. In contrast, the 18 million pound price tag of Kensington Garden Street mansion is equivalent to 25 million US dollars at the current exchange rate.
Of course, apart from London and Paris, the top luxury houses in other major European cities are much cheaper.
After reading the last piece of information in his hand, Simon looked at Sophia faessy and said, ”Sixteen properties, including the one in Cannes, can you manage them?”
Sophia fishy was obviously stunned. Although she has carefully selected 16 properties over the past few months, she only thinks that Simon may choose two or three of them. But listen to Simon's words at this time, he obviously wants to buy all these 16 properties down?!
The one-time cost of $178 million to buy 16 real estate units is absolutely a crazy move in this era when the world's top richest people generally have only a few billion dollars. What's more, as a former agent of luxury houses, Sophia Fischer knows very well that most of the rich people will continue to spend a lot of money to renovate their houses after purchasing them, which is also a lot of money.
For a moment, feeling that Simon was still looking at himself inquisitively, Sophia fishy quickly gathered her mind and recalled the question he had just asked.
16、 Well, seventeen properties, can she manage them?
In fact, many rich people have the habit of buying more than one house. If they used to buy a bunch of small apartments and villas, she can give a positive answer immediately.
However, these 17 properties are among the top luxury houses in Europe at present, except for the 22 hectare main villa in the western suburbs of Paris, which also has a private racecourse, orchard and lake. Daily maintenance requires at least a dozen gardeners and servants. All the 17 luxury houses need to be maintained by a special team of hundreds of people. Moreover, this is definitely not just an ordinary maintenance and cleaning.
After a moment's hesitation, Sophia faessy nodded her head, but could not help confirming, ”Simon, are you going to buy all these properties?”
”You can do it when you go back to Europe,” Simon said, patting Janet in his arms, holding the woman up and saying, ”for the time being, Jenny, help Sophia arrange the room. I'll take a bath first.”
Sophia fishy watched Simon leave, then looked at Janet, who had just made no objection to Simon's decision, and said, ”Jane, do you really want Simon to do this?”
Janet came up to take Sophia by the arm, took her to the guest room and said, ”I'm his girlfriend, not his mother. In fact, if you spend more time together and get used to Simon's crazy ideas, you won't feel strange about this kind of thing. ”
”But I don't think it's necessary at all to have 16 properties,” Sophia faessy said