Chapter 1329

Afternoon, Andy with a cup of steaming British black tea, standing in front of the arc of the large French window, looking out at the gray sky and the drizzle, constantly hitting the glass, zigzagging down.

"Boss, Mr. Tony Pitt is here."

Andy turns to look at the assistant in a grey turtleneck sweater, black Tun skirt and black transparent Si socks, and nods slightly, "let them wait in the reception hall first, I'll be right there."

Andy took a sip of black tea, went to the tea table, put down the cup, picked up a folder from the table, and walked to the reception hall.

"Good afternoon, boss."

"Sit down, please." Walking into the reception hall, Andy saw four people, led by Tony Pitt, the real estate investment consultant, standing up to meet him. Andy couldn't help laughing, reaching down and saying.

"Thank you, boss."

"This house, I like it very much. Tony, you did a good job. I'm very satisfied. " Andy went to the single sofa in the middle facing the French window and sat down, laughing and saying to Tony Pitt on the left.

"If you are satisfied, boss." Tony Pitt smiled, then took out a folder from the side and handed it to Andy, explaining: "boss, this is all the castle manor materials we have on sale or intended to sell from the British National Trust and through specific channels or contacts. "

Andy nodded, reached over the folder, opened it and began to look at it. As a file with photos flipped, Andy's eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and then looked at Tony and said:" how can it be so cheap? "

Looking at these 34 million pound old castle manors, Andy is a little speechless. For example, he now sees a manor called dans hall manor. It introduces that the former owner is Sir Richard akulet, one of the fathers of the British Industrial Revolution. The manor is a second-class historical building in England. It covers 85.7 hectares and has 12 bedrooms, plus lakes and orange gardens The ballroom, the cellar and a cricket court, a castle estate dating back to 1145, are priced at just £ 5 million.

Andy looks at the photos of the manor house, which is no worse than the Castle House in Downton manor.

Tony quickly explained: "boss, it's not expensive to buy Castle manor. The key lies in the mark of this historical building.

Historical and cultural heritage will have many restrictions on house repair and capping. It is necessary to carry out a comprehensive structural and maintenance inspection of the house. The most important thing is maintenance. Some of them are in disrepair for a long time. Even if all the rooms are painted once, it will cost tens of thousands of pounds.

Although the dans hall manor you see is cheap, it has been replaced by several owners and has not been completely repaired. It will cost millions of pounds, even millions of pounds, to simply carry out a comprehensive repair. This is not the cost of maintaining the castle manor.

For example, the wattelton manor in Norfolk and Tudor period in England is only priced at 15 million pounds. It has been renovated and can be used directly. However, the weekly consumption cost of this mansion is about 2000 pounds, which is not included in the labor cost.

Few British nobles can afford a manor without work. Many aristocratic manors that have no way to go and are forced to give their ancestral houses and properties to the state trust and can rely on their own hard work to continue to maintain their ancestral properties should be regarded as a good ending.

The high price consumption of these ancient castle manors is really not affordable for ordinary people.

If you want to use the castle to generate income, such as collecting tickets or something. It needs to be reported to the British government for approval, and then the ticket income has to be taxed, and there are too many British castles, so if there is no story about this castle, it is basically a loss business. "

Andy nodded a little relieved to know that Britain's inheritance tax is really deadly. Good nobles have to sell their family collections to raise taxes when they inherit property.

And those declining aristocratic families, that is to say, would rather give these chateaus to the state trust than choose to inherit, because for them, these chateaus that can only spend money and can't make money are simply negative assets, which will definitely drag them down.

Continue to open the photo file, there are only three Castle manors that Andy can see at present. If the style of other Castle manors is not what he likes, or the layout is too small, the castle mansion with 7-20 bedrooms is no longer within his consideration.

After all, what he needs is not for his own living. He has no interest in living in the wet and cold countryside of England. To experience the aristocratic life, Andy is not interested in pretending to be the poor 13. He has no feeling at all except for his interest in the chaotic private life among the aristocrats.

"Eh? This castle is good! " Andy looks at some familiar Gothic style castles. His eyes brighten, but he can't help but look at the price marked below.

Fifty million pounds, tut, how dare you open your mouth!

When Tony heard the big boss's words, he looked into the picture in the folder of the big boss's hand and said with a smile on his face: "boss, this heicklell castle in Berkshire, west of London, belongs to the count of Carnarvon family. It belongs to the eighth generation count of Carnarvon, George Herbert and Countess Fiona.Since 2003, after inheriting the manor, they have been trying all kinds of ways to maintain the manor. They originally wanted to develop the surrounding land. However, due to the interference of neighbors, they did not get the consent of the government. The annual maintenance and management fee of 1 million pounds makes them hard to afford, especially since last year, they could have collected the visiting tickets by traveling Business has plummeted.

Although they didn't sell it in public, we got the news from the specific circle and contacted each other to confirm the news. They did intend to sell the castle.

The castle has always been inhabited by the Earl's family. At present, there are 20 full-time servants. The castle is almost intact from the first World War to the present. Although it has sold 20% of the manor land collected by some families because of the estate tax, there are still 4000 acres of land in the Manor.

The supporter and participant of the archaeological activity that discovered the world-famous gold mask of Tutankhamun is the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, but he died in Egypt soon because of septicemia. At the same time, the loyal dog of the Earl far away in the castle also barked and died... "

" Oh? The curse of Pharaoh, ha ha, is really a family with a story. It's interesting. " Andy smiled and raised his eyebrows. The truth of the story is not important to him. The key lies in the orderly inheritance and complete preservation of the castle. It can satisfy the idea of packaging and marketing as a tourist hotel for him to shoot Downton manor.

"Ha ha, 50 million pounds, but it's not cheap at all. If the transaction is to be concluded, except their personal belongings can be taken away, other things must remain the same, OK?"

Tony heard the big boss's words and hurriedly replied: "there should be no problem. When I called to confirm the news, I asked about it in general. They are sold as a whole. "

"Well, let's start talking with the countess and his wife. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I'll go to the castle of highcliff." Andy looked at the photo of the castle, and said softly.

"Good boss, I'll get in touch with them in a moment."