Chapter 527: Real Estate Speculation

The technology that matches wireless broadcasting is naturally the radio technology that has long been eliminated in later generations.

Whether it is a base station or a transfer station, they are just facilities for sending signals. The radio is a device that receives radio wave signals and can convert radio wave signals into audio that can be output.

Australasia actually has radio stations. After all, radio technology has been available for more than ten years, but the technical limitations are very large.

Australasia is limited to the southeastern part of Australia. To be precise, only the cities of Sydney and Melbourne have their own radio stations, and the coverage area is even pitiful, basically only individual squares.

The biggest role of these radio stations is actually to announce national current affairs news, as well as some temporary policies, etc.

Because the audience is relatively limited, there is no income, just the government's additional propaganda expenses for better dissemination of policies.

Seeing that the government's radio station has no source of income, the capitalists naturally dare not enter the market. Compared with the government, they are the ones who can't bear the loss.

This is actually the trend of capitalist development. Any emerging industry or thing, if it cannot quickly realize profitability, and the people who promote this industry are not powerful and wealthy, it basically means that this industry cannot develop.

This also makes the entrepreneurial environment around the world not so good. The background of this era is much darker than that of later generations. If you don’t have too much power or money, it is very difficult to start a business from scratch and succeed.

Because capital always has a way to plunder your resources and seize your market.

A little more civilized will suppress you madly and then acquire your business at a low price.

And those arrogant and domineering capitals, under the premise of colluding with the government, can make the entrepreneurs’ hard-earned wealth disappear with a false charge and make wedding clothes for others.

Arthur also saw this point, so he asked the Royal Bank to provide certain help to the entrepreneurial environment in Australasia, including providing capital loans to some entrepreneurs, etc., or investing.

This action also saved the entrepreneurial environment in Australasia, which is why many middle-class and small capitals were born in Australasia.

After all, the biggest capital of Australasia is still Arthur. Arthur has no need and no idea to interfere with the entrepreneurial behavior of these people.

On the contrary, if these people succeed in starting a business, it will also be helpful to the economy of Australasia.

As long as they are not the kind of capitalists without any conscience, Arthur is also happy to see more small capitalists in Australasia, thereby improving the economic level of Australasia.

As for those who will gradually develop into big capital, the government also has corresponding countermeasures.

At least in Australasia, the power of capitalists will not be so high, and capital must always be in the hands of the government and Arthur.

The government can have an impact on capital, and capital cannot have an impact on the government. This is the most suitable system for the development of a country.

Compared with the research on radio waves, the research and design of radios are actually very simple. As early as more than ten years ago, there were corresponding equipment.

There are currently two main types of popular radios, one is a crystal radio that does not require power, and the other is a tube radio that needs to be plugged in.

The crystal radio does not require power, and even the structure is very simple. But it is also for this reason that the crystal radio needs a five-meter antenna to receive signals, which is one of the few disadvantages of the crystal radio.

Of course, in addition to this, the crystal radio has a low sound and is not suitable for relatively open places.

The tube radio does not have these restrictions, but it needs to be plugged in, which is one of the oldest types of radios.

The technology of these two radios is actually not difficult. The Australasian Academy of Sciences conducted some research on the technology of existing radios, and soon imitated and improved it into a unique radio technology in Australasian.

Compared with the two radios, the crystal radio is a relatively simple radio receiving device, so the cost is relatively cheap, generally priced at around 20 to 30 Australian dollars.

The structure of the tube radio is relatively complex, and the size is smaller than the crystal radio, so it is also more expensive, and the price generally reaches 30 to 50 Australian dollars.

After deciding to lay radio base stations across the country, the manufacture and sale of radios became the top priority at the moment.

You know, the research of the Academy of Sciences is far more than that simple, including the eight-line image device, which is the so-called early television.

If we really wait until the early TV is developed, the importance of TV will definitely exceed that of radio.

This also means that the heyday of radio will last for a few years and will be replaced by TV sooner or later.

Therefore, Arthur should take advantage of the full popularization of radio now and make a lot of profits from Europe and the United States.

Especially Americans are still very rich now. If we don't squeeze them well, it will be a shame for the radio and radio technology that Arthur has mastered.

There are countless broadcasting equipment in the future market, and radios have been installed in cars and mobile phones.

However, in the era of the great development of the Internet, radio stations were eventually defeated by the Internet. It seems that except for a small number of people who are used to listening to the radio, most people have entered the impetuous and fast modern life and have no time to listen to the radio quietly.

But no matter what, this is a matter of decades or hundreds of years. The market for radios can definitely cover the world. Before the Internet is completely popularized, radios can still be strong for a period of time and can also bring a lot of profits to Arthur.

Compared with the large number of base stations and transfer stations required for wireless broadcasting, the investment in radios does not actually require too much cost.

Relevant production technology, a production line, and a suitable number of workers can form a radio production factory, thereby creating huge profits.

This is obviously a huge business opportunity, so Arthur decided to hand it over to the royal consortium and the aristocratic consortium for joint investment.

First, it is to increase a little competitiveness in the radio industry, and second, it is to create some income for the aristocratic consortium. After all, those aristocrats can't rely on Arthur to support them, right?

Although the United Bank can already generate considerable income, the aristocratic class in Australasia is growing, and it is bound to be prepared for the future.

In addition to these overt means of making money, Arthur's several consortiums have not stopped their steps in secret.

After determining the real estate policy for the United States, under Arthur's order, several consortiums have set out and started to buy land and real estate in large cities in the United States, preparing to ignite the real estate industry in the United States.

There is a more obvious difference between countries like Europe and the United States and Asian countries, that is, the difference in urbanization rate.

This is not only because of the degree of development of the country, but also because of the different populations in different regions.

Let's take the current British Empire as an example. As the most powerful country in the world, the British Empire has a very high urbanization rate.

According to historical records, seventy years ago, the urbanization rate of the British Empire had reached a terrifying 50.2%, and urbanization had basically been achieved.

In the early 20th century, the urbanization rate of the British Empire had exceeded 75%, and it had become a highly urbanized country.

Although the improvement of urbanization has gradually slowed down so far, the urbanization rate of more than 70% is enough to prove how exaggerated the British Empire is at present.

As the capital of the British Empire, London currently has a population of more than 7 million, making it the most populous city in the world, which is enough to show how exaggerated the development of the British Empire is.

The United States, theoretically the world's top industrial and economic power, is not far behind. Its urbanization rate has reached 51.9%, and New York has become an international metropolis on par with major cities such as London, Berlin, and Paris.

Of course, there are many famous international metropolises in this era, such as Sydney and Melbourne in Australasia, which are also megacities with a population of more than 2.5 million and occupy an important position in the world's urban population rankings.

But in any case, Sydney and Melbourne are still quite far from the above four cities. After all, the development of these countries is decades or even hundreds of years ahead of Australasia, and it is not something that Australasia can catch up with in a short time.

As the current first in both industry and economy, Americans are still very proud of their development.

While major European newspapers and experts are boldly predicting that London will become the world's first city with a population of over 10 million, American experts are also predicting that New York will become the world's second city with a population of over 5 million.

Such a theory is very suitable for Arthur to speculate in real estate in the United States. Therefore, Arthur borrowed the exaggerated propaganda of Americans very unceremoniously. Major American media began to report on the situation of major cities in the United States, promoting that major cities in the United States, led by New York, are the shining pearls of the world and one of the most economically developed regions in the world.

The development prospects of the city, the future surge in population, etc., are all in the news reported by the newspaper.

Since the economy is the most developed and the population is going to surge, then the next transportation and housing will definitely be a problem.

With all kinds of propaganda, the rise in housing prices has become a matter of course, and there is even a trend that only rising housing prices can match the status of New York.

At the end of February, the average house price in New York remained at just over $370, and it rose to more than $410 in early March, and there was no sign of stopping.

At this time, the New York housing market is not only controlled by Arthur, but also a large number of capitalists are taking advantage of the chaos to buy houses.

After all, there are still quite a few capitalists with good investment vision. The recent excessive publicity of the development potential of major American cities, coupled with the abnormal growth of US housing prices, has made people guess that there are pushers behind the scenes.

But whether there are promoters or not, following up and buying houses has become the choice of most American capitalists.

Even if they only hold them for a short period of time, they can earn at least tens of dollars for each house. If they buy more, this is thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars of income, which cannot be refused by those capitalists.

Under such an exaggerated trend, hundreds of thousands of houses in cities such as New York were sold out in just over a month.

Most of the people who bought these houses were capitalists, not ordinary people who really needed these houses.

The houses are out of stock!

The news headlined by this title instantly became popular throughout the United States. People increasingly believed in the impact of urban development on housing and transportation. In the hot wave of buying houses, they also wanted to hoard a house for themselves in advance, or even buy more and wait for appreciation.

Under such a crazy wave of Americans, the rise in housing prices became even more exaggerated.

In early March, the housing price in New York was still just over $400, but it had reached $420 in mid-March, and it was still in a state of being priced but not sold.

Basically no one was willing to sell their house at $420, because the growth of housing prices continued, and they could make more money by selling later.

It is worth mentioning that the newspapers wrote not only about the housing crisis, but also about traffic problems.

This also led to the fact that in addition to houses, the sales of cars, which had been stable, became hot.

Although the sales of cars were not as exaggerated as the housing prices, according to the sales data of Benz cars in the United States, the average daily sales in the United States increased by more than 15% since March.

After the housing prices soared by $50 in less than a month, the extent to which the housing prices would rise has become a topic of concern to all Americans.

Now there is no need for Arthur to push behind the scenes. The capitalists who have purchased a large number of properties have already mobilized their own public opinion power and are frantically promoting the development prospects of the city and the value of real estate, which has also made the growth of housing prices have no tendency to stop.

In addition to buying ready-made properties, many capitalists who see the dividends have already planned to build a large number of properties for sale.

You know, the land in New York is actually not expensive, and the cost of building a house can be controlled at around US$280.

This also means that according to the current housing prices, the net profit of a house is at least US$140, and building 10,000 houses is US$1.4 million.

Who would refuse such temptation to become a millionaire by engaging in real estate?

In addition, those capitalists frantically promote the benefits of the real estate economy, thereby affecting the support of US congressmen for real estate brokers.

Those capitalists shamelessly said that real estate can drive the development of industries such as steel bars, cement and even doors and windows, and provide more job opportunities for all Americans to solve the employment problem of Americans.

We should vigorously promote the popularization of the real estate economy in the United States. Americans can not only completely solve the unemployment problem, but also get more income from civilians, accelerate the cycle of the US economy, and it is a win-win situation for capitalists and the government.

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