Chapter 996: Hit three poles first if there is a date but not a date
“Battersea Power Station’s superior geographical location is indeed favored by many investors.
In the late 1980s, architect Cedric Pugh Rice proposed to demolish the building's brick walls, retain only the steel structure and chimney, and build new housing underneath, allowing the iconic outline of the power station to "float" above London.
Because the cost was too high, it was rejected by the government. Give up.
In 1986, real estate developer John Bloom tried to transform the power station and the surrounding area into a giant shopping mall with amusement facilities.
Visitors can reach all floors and rooftops through indoor hot-air balloon facilities, but this plan was ultimately shelved due to a financial breakdown.
In 1993, the land was acquired by Parkview Group and handed over to British architects Philip Dawson and Nicholas Graham for planning and design.
From theme parks to circuses, to luxury hotels and comprehensive communities, but it has never made any progress.
Things have been delayed until today. ”
Xu Liang understood.
If you want to develop Battersea Power Station, the most important thing is capital.
This kind of protective development of old buildings is more expensive than rebuilding on new land.
The British local gangsters can get high-quality land, but of course they have no interest in Battersea.
Only outsiders like him, who have little local energy, cannot obtain high-quality land, and only have money, are interested in developing Battersea.
“How do you plan to develop it?”
Lu Jue was shocked and said quickly.
“The overall renovation area of the Battersea project reaches 42 acres (approximately 170,000㎡). The land is very large, so we want to transform it into a shopping mall containing 3,500 residences and 158,000㎡, 4.7 An urban complex with 10,000 square meters of office space.
The entire project is divided into seven phases, Phase I and Phase II, mainly focusing on the renovation of Battersea Power Station.
The lower floors will be restored for shopping. The upper floor was converted into office space, and 284 residential units were added on the top floor and two wings. One of the chimneys was transformed into a glass elevator. After climbing to the top, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the city.
A sky villa and its sky villas were added above the main building. Surrounding rooftop garden square
Phases three to seven include five apartment buildings A1 to A5, which are mainly in minimalist style and focus on design and modernity.
The entire project has a construction period of five years and a total investment of 5 to 6 billion pounds. ”
After saying that, he looked at the big boss carefully.
The investment in this project is too big.
6 billion pounds, more than 10 billion US dollars.
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If it goes well, it can double the amount of funds.
The same huge amount of money invested in Huaxia can spread Hanhua's urban complexes to all the top 150 cities in the country.
"The project is a good project. But Lao Lu, how much debt does Taihua Group have now?"
"28.75 billion US dollars." Lu Jue said bitterly.
The acquisition of Fuhua Real Estate and Kelong Supermarket has certainly given Taihua nearly US$30 billion in debt-free assets.
But it also saddled Taihua with a debt of US$20 billion.
If Hanhua hadn’t converted part of the funds into equity in Taihua Group, the group’s total liabilities would have exceeded US$30 billion.
“28.75 billion US dollars, the debt scale is close to 60% of total assets.”
“58.48%.”
Xu Liang continued with a smile: “Although this scale is The debt ratio is not the highest in the real estate industry, but if it takes on another 6 billion pounds of debt, Taihua's debt ratio can quickly exceed 80%. At this financial level, what are you going to do if you encounter a black swan?
Or do you think the real estate industry can continue to rise without any changes in five or six years? "
"I...? "
He stopped again when he spoke.
In fact, he knows better than anyone else that the current situation of Taihua Group is simply unable to operate the 'Battersea Power Station' project.< br>
But Taihua can’t, Boss Xu can
The insiders of the Tamron Project are not clear to outsiders, but as an insider, he still knows something.
His original idea was to come over with the 'Battersea Power Station' and hit three shots if there were dates or not.
If we can get money, Taihua will make a lot of money.
But this must not be said on the table, otherwise Boss Xu would not call him "Lao Lu" affectionately.
It would be easy to just tell him to get out.
"Except for capital, the potential of the British real estate industry is far less than that of China. In the next ten years, Taihua will still focus on the Chinese market and take into account the Southeast Asian market."
"Yes."
After chatting for a while, Xu Liang sent him away.
“All these guys have come to my place to catch the autumn wind.”
Looking at the ‘Battersea Power Station’ document on the table, Xu Liang picked it up again and flipped through it.
To be fair, this is indeed a very high-quality project.
No wonder Lu Jue values it.
But the investment scale is too large, so it is not a good opportunity now.
“Even if you want to invest, you have to wait until after the subprime mortgage crisis.”
The subprime mortgage crisis, the European debt crisis, and European real estate prices will all fall.
It will definitely be much easier to buy the Baresi power station land.
......
Dingling bell......
As soon as he left Jiulongyu Manor, Lu Jue's cell phone rang.
“How about Lu Jue, does the big boss agree?”
"As you expected, I refused." Lu Jue sighed.
“Taihua’s debt is too high. If I were the big boss, I would refuse.
Furthermore, by assigning Fuhua and Kelong to us, we would have made our brother companies envious. Support us in taking down the Battersea Power Station.
Hynix, Master Kong, Hanhua, Facebook, Vivendi, and Unocal are not easy to block," Qiu Mingcheng said with a smile.
As both are internal companies of the Xu Group, everyone is familiar with the situation of each company.
"Well, that's what I said. But I'm really unwilling to give it a try."
"Have you given up now?"
"Have given up."
" When will you come back? The company is still waiting for you to take charge of the situation."
"Isn't there you in the company?" Lu Jue said. "There is news from Quancheng that there will be a plot of land with a total area of 14.6 square kilometers to start shooting next month. I will go there and keep an eye on it in person."
“14.6 square kilometers? 22,000 acres?!”
“Haha, it’s big. I used to think that 2,000 acres of land was big enough, but this time it increased tenfold . ”
“The place is very remote?”
“It’s in the northeast of Quancheng, centered on Huashan and Huashan Lake in Quancheng, to the Jiqing Expressway in the north, and in the southeast. To Xiaoqing River, to the west of the Second Ring Road East (Jiangjun Road)..."
"Forget it, you'd better stop talking. I'm not from Quancheng, and I don't know where I am. ...It just so happens that I'm in Yidu now, not far from Quancheng. Let's go and have a look first." Lu Juedao.
"Okay. According to the data, not all of the 22,000 acres of land is construction land. About 6,000 acres of it is Huashan National Historical and Cultural Park."
"Beside mountains and rivers, It’s a good piece of land.”
But the prices of real estate developed in beautiful places close to the city are generally not cheap.
“Good land is good land, but there are also many people watching. As far as I know, state-owned enterprises including China Shipping, China Resources, and COFCO, as well as private companies including Vanke and Country Garden, are all eyeing it.
A fight between dragons and tigers is inevitable. "Qiu Mingcheng said.
"Let's fight, we are not short of money. "
"That's right. Big bosses will definitely support this kind of domestic super market. ”
The two chatted for a while before hanging up the phone.
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Dong Dong...
The door knocked.
Liu Hong said happily when she opened the door and saw her husband-to-be appearing outside.
"Why are you here?"
Yang Haojian changed into slippers, "Uncle and aunt are not here?"
"I went shopping for groceries."
Put the gifts aside.
Looking at his fiancée, who was wearing a red close-fitting cashmere sweater with beautiful lines, Yang Haojian felt hot and put his arms around his waist.
I was about to have a kiss.
“Wait a minute.”
After stopping my fiancé.
"Let me ask you, who did you tell that Xu Liang was going to attend our wedding?"
"No one told anyone except my parents."
Seeing his fiancee's relaxed expression, Yang Haojian said quickly.
“You told me not to tell others, how could I not listen to my wife.”
"Have you told your uncle and aunt to keep it a secret?"
"Of course you have."
"That's pretty much it."
The worried Liu Hong said again.
“Dear, Xu Liang is our largest and most precious resource. We cannot over-consume.”
"Inviting more leaders to participate is excessive consumption?"
"You are really stupid. If the news of Xu Liang's participation in our wedding spreads, it will certainly attract a large number of big shots to our wedding.
At that time, we will have face, but we will lose face.
What is face?
Contacts and connections.
Why did those people who came to our wedding come?
It must be to curry favor with Xu Liang, build relationships, and seek benefits.
Whether Xu Liang gives it or not in the end.
He will feel that he has given us enough face and the friendship between classmates has been exhausted.
If we try to find him again in the future, we probably won’t be able to contact him.
In other words, we use a wedding to connect leaders and big shots for free and benefit them.
Do you think we will lose money? "
Yang Haojian scratched his head.
"But if they get the benefits, don't they also have to accept our kindness? If we ask for help in the future, won’t they also help us? "
"You are really naive.
Let’s not talk about human nature, just focus on interests.
If these people who come to Xu Liang’s door get benefits, they might help us.
Those who were rejected by Xu Liang and did not get the benefits may not only not help us, but they will also hate us and even retaliate against us. "
"Is it really that serious? "
"What do you think? ”
In fact, Liu Hong has never experienced it. These are life experiences taught by his father who is a supermarket business.
“So, we have to keep Xu Liang’s attendance at the wedding a secret. When he actually comes the day after tomorrow, everyone will naturally know about it.
There is no way to hide such a big news. Live.
Our relationship with him cannot be hidden.
In time, those who hope to get to know Xu Liang through us will take the initiative to flatter us.
Think about it, which one is better, the benefit of having someone delivered to your door, than asking for help on our own initiative? ”
“Of course it’s the benefit of having it delivered to your door. "
Yang Haojian said quickly.
"That's it. "
"Daughter-in-law, you are still smart! "Yang Haojian said with admiration.
"Just be lucky that you got a wife as smart as me."
"Hey, yes, yes, I'm satisfied now."
"Silly!"
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