Chapter 2376 Real Estate Speculators in London

London, England.

A shining pearl built across the Thames.

This city with an incomparably glorious history in the modern history of mankind is still one of the most important financial, political, and cultural centers in the world today.

Although the United States is now the world's dominant, London's financial sector is still the largest financial trading market in continental Europe, controlling transactions including heavy metals, oil, foreign currencies, insurance, etc., and has great influence on Europe and Africa big.

Therefore, when people talk about Europe, the first thing they think of is London, and then Paris, France.

Due to the narrowness of the territory of the United Kingdom and the decrease in the population of the United Kingdom year after year, the current population of London is about 8 million.

If people from the surrounding area come to London to discuss life, the total daily active population in London can reach about 12 million.

Considering that the total population of Great Britain is only 60 million, which can account for one-fifth of the country's population, London is basically the same as Japan.

The city of London that we usually know is actually the 12 administrative districts of Inner London. The names of Chelsea and Fulham that Chinese fans are familiar with are the names of these administrative districts.

In addition, there are 21 outer London administrative districts, and the 33 administrative districts together form the whole of Greater London.

The prosperous area is naturally the 12 inner administrative districts on both sides of the Thames.

Today's Liu Datou has chosen Westminster, Inner London, as his headquarters in London, and he is flexing his muscles.

As the students sent by Xiao Qi, Hou Mutai, Guan Shantang and Yang Hua, the three members of the Wenzhou real estate speculators group, were also entrusted with important tasks by Liu Datou because of their excellent theoretical and practical knowledge.

Liu Datou is a smart person. Before he talked about British real estate with Xiao Qi, he had already done in-depth research on the British real estate market.

He is not a star killer who only knows how to play female stars. If he doesn't have the actual ability, he won't be able to pull out his teeth repeatedly. Such a world has been established in Hong Kong.

Through the experience in Hong Kong, Liu Datou knows. The house does not mean that the cheaper the house, the better it is, but the more in demand the house will increase in price and sell better.

This is quite similar to Li Chaoren's famous theory of "location", "location" and "still location".

Of course, doing real estate will not be that simple, if you really think you bought Li Chaoren's autobiography. If reincarnation and rebirth can become the second Superman Li, then Hong Kong Peak is the last place you want to go.

Li Chaoren’s way of starting a business is not as simple or as clean as you think. The reason why you think he is an inspirational idol is because he gave you this after years of doing good deeds and beautifying his family. Impressions only.

So Xiao Qi was never willing to touch real estate all the time, to be a fairy real estate. Now, only two projects in Chengdu and Shangri-La in the capital have been launched.

Liu Datou is ruthless and ruthless, and he will definitely surpass Li Chaoren. This time he came to London. It's just for real estate speculation to make a lot of money. It is impossible for him to control the life and death of the British.

The land of Greater London is about 1600 square kilometers. Basically, it is about the same size as Dongfang City.

The population of Dongfang City is 23 million, almost four times that of London.

Logically speaking, the population density here is not that high, and real estate is certainly not as prosperous as in the East.

And that's exactly what happened.

Housing prices in London have not been very high over the years.

The cost of buying a house for an ordinary family is basically around 360,000 pounds.

With the outbreak of the financial crisis, the UK has inevitably been affected, and now housing prices in London have caused a sharp drop, with a drop of 15% in the first half of the year. The wait-and-see mood of the people is getting stronger and stronger.

In order to recover losses, break the impact of the financial crisis. At the end of last year, the British government has introduced laws to encourage foreigners to come to the UK to buy houses.

As we all know, there are many taxes on real estate transactions, the most important of which is called capital gains tax (CGT). In our country, it is called house value-added income tax, which means the same thing.

The British buy and sell houses by themselves. For the first time you sell your house, you have to pay 18% of the total house price as capital gains tax; the second time is even more serious, you have to pay 28% of the total house price. %.

So in the new bill, how much capital gains tax do foreigners need to pay when selling a house?

0.

That is, no.

You can buy and sell houses in the UK at will without paying the biggest tax.

The rest of the residential land stamp duty, property management fee, land rent, municipal fee, etc., are simply not worth mentioning, at best, they are only 3%-5% of the total house payment.

As soon as Liu Datou arrived in the UK, he caught up with the bill issued by the British government, which made him feel that he came to the right place.

After some careful research, he gave up his plan of setting up his own construction company and directly building houses for sale.

Liu Datou decided to focus on two investment methods in the UK.

The first one is to buy and stockpile land for speculation, and sell it when the price is high.

The second is to directly buy mid-to-high-end housing. After the housing price is raised, it will also drive the surrounding market to rise sharply, and at the same time, it will also drive the rise of its own land.

After the land rises, it will naturally drive up the housing price in turn.

The two complement each other, and there is a great deal of confidence in pushing up housing prices to make profits.

What makes him feel even more convenient is that, due to the same line of law and policy, he has completely moved Hong Kong's hype experience to the UK, without even changing many details.

Moreover, the real estate hype in the UK can be even greater, and the UK bill has more preferential policies for foreigners buying and selling houses.

Liu Datou used to mainly buy and sell land, and then built houses for profit. He still lacks experience in large-scale hype houses.

But he wasn't flustered at all, because he had a few such professionals by his side——Wenzhou real estate speculators group of three!

Xiao Qi sent them here before, and Liu Datou was still a little unhappy, but after he decided on the operation method, he realized that Xiao Qi sent him a powerful helper!

The trio of Wenzhou real estate speculators are in charge of inflating housing prices, and he is in charge of buying and hoarding land for speculation. It's a match made in heaven!

Branson, who owns 15% of the shares of "Hengxin Investment Company", certainly can't eat dry food.

Hearing about Liu Datou's investment direction, after Branson helped him find an office space, he sent him a lot of market experts without further ado.

There are consultants who are responsible for real estate sale and purchase laws. There are retired government senior commissioners who are responsible for communicating with government land sales departments, and analysts who are responsible for collecting various land and real estate information in London. There are financial specialists who are responsible for dealing with banks, and there are personnel who are responsible for providing them with various back-up guarantees...

Just like that, the shelf of "Hengxin Investment Company" was completely set up, and Liu Datou could start at any time.

Xiao Qi's 5 billion US dollars is now in the company's account, thinking that there is so much money for his own use, Liu Datou is even short of breath.

But after all, he is also the chairman of a large company with a market value of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars. Although 5 billion US dollars is a lot, he has not seen it before. ...Well, but in terms of cash, I haven't seen it.

After collecting and analyzing the data, Liu Datou immediately determined the first place to inflate housing prices in the Westminster area.

Speaking of the Westminster area, you may not know it, but if you talk about a scene located here, you will understand.

Have you ever seen an aerial view of the picture? Next to a bridge over the Thames River, there is an iconic British Big Ben, and next to it is the ancient building of the British Parliament Building. Then across the Thames is the London Eye?

These famous buildings include Buckingham Palace, where the Queen and her family live. Including 11 Downing Street, including the British Museum, are located in the Westminster area.

It can be seen that this area also straddles the Thames River in London, which is the center of London.

The housing prices here are of course the highest, but they are also the vane of housing prices in London as a whole.

If the price in Westminster increases, then the surrounding Lambeth, Southwark, Kensington? Chelsea and other places will definitely follow the price increase.

At the beginning of March, Liu Datou started the first step of the plan.

He was first in the three areas of Lambeth, Southwark, and Kensington? Chelsea. Lots to start buying land.

For a while, he was supported by Branson. In one month, more than 10 pieces of land, large and small, were acquired, and 5 billion US dollars of funds were spent directly, and 1 billion was directly spent.

At the same time, Yang Hua, Hou Mutai, and Guan Shantang, with the help of their assistants, also began to purchase high-end real estate and high-end new houses in Westminster in batches.

Wenzhou real estate speculators have always been such a trick.

Don’t look for any cheap houses to speculate, but speculate on well-known and very valuable good houses.

After the price is raised, the reputation will be great, and the driving effect will naturally be great.

As for the method of selling the left hand for the right hand, and the right hand for the left hand, it is even more outstanding. With the strength of the real estate supervision in the UK, it may be difficult to stop it.

Buying land and houses is easy, but the hype process takes time to ferment.

It is impossible to say that I bought a house this month, and sold it the next day with a 12% profit. That can only fool children, and adults will know there are ghosts in it as soon as they hear it.

And it's not enough if the number is small, the price increase of one or two houses will not have any effect at all.

In addition, buying newspapers, magazines, reporters, etc., bragging about the shortage of houses and the impending skyrocketing of housing prices, and pushing up people's expectations for price increases also requires a process.

The Wenzhou real estate speculators are also very patient in making a hype, and it is definitely not done in twos and fives as everyone imagined.

And now, they are slowly laying out... (to be continued ~^~)

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