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A shining pearl built across the River Thames.

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

Although the United States is now the dominant player in the world, the financial community in London is still the largest financial trading market on the European continent, controlling transactions including heavy metals, oil, foreign currencies, insurance, etc., and has great influence on Europe and Africa.

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Therefore, when people think of Europe, London is the first thing they think of, followed by Paris, France.

Because the UK's territory is too narrow, and because the UK's population has been decreasing over the years, London's current population is about 8 million.

If people from surrounding areas come to London to seek 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, accounting for one-fifth of a country's population, London is basically the same as Japan.

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

There are also 21 Outer London boroughs, and the 33 boroughs taken together make up the entire Greater London.

The prosperous areas are naturally the 12 inner administrative boroughs on both sides of the Thames River.

Today, Liu Datou has chosen the Westminster district of inner London as his headquarters in London and is flexing his muscles.

As study personnel sent by Xiao Qi, the three members of the Wenzhou Real Estate Speculation Group, Hou Mutai, Guan Shantang and Yang Hua, were entrusted with important tasks by Liu Datou because of their excellent theoretical and practical knowledge.

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

He is not a celebrity killer who only knows how to play with female stars. If he didn't have actual abilities, he wouldn't have been able to carve out such a world in Hong Kong by repeatedly pulling out his teeth.

Through his experience in Hong Kong, Liu Datou knew that the cheaper a house is, the better it is. Rather, the more demand there is for a house, the more the price will rise and the better it will sell.

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

Of course, doing real estate is not that simple. If you really think that you can become the second Superman after buying the autobiography of Superman Li and be reincarnated, then the Peak in Hong Kong is the last place you want to go.

The way Li Chaoren started his career is not as simple as you think, nor as clean as you think. The reason why you think he is an inspirational idol is because after he started his business, he gave you this after years of doing good deeds and beautification.

Just an impression.

Therefore, Xiao Qi has never been willing to touch real estate and become a fairy real estate. Now he has only launched two projects in Chengdu and Shangri-La in the capital.

Liu Datou's ruthlessness is definitely more than that of Li Chaoren. He came to London this time just to make a lot of money by speculating on real estate. It is impossible for him to care about the life and death of British people.

The entire land area of ​​Greater London is about 1,600 square kilometers, which is basically the same size as Oriental City.

The population of Dongfang City is 1 million, which is 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.

This is exactly what happened.

London house prices have not been very high over the years.

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

With the outbreak of the financial crisis, the UK has inevitably been affected. Now London's housing prices have plummeted, plummeting 15% in basically half a year. The public's wait-and-see mood is getting stronger.

In order to recover losses and break the impact of the financial crisis, the British government introduced laws at the end of last year 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 (gt). In our country, it is called housing appreciation income tax, which means the same thing.

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

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

0.

That is, there is none.

You can buy or sell a house at will in the UK without paying the biggest tax.

The remaining residential land stamp tax, property management fees, ground rent, municipal fees, etc. are simply not worth mentioning, at best only 3%-5% of the total house payment.

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

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

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

The first is to buy land, hoard land, speculate on land, and wait until the price is high to sell it.

The second is to directly purchase mid-to-high-end housing. After raising housing prices, it will also drive a surge in the surrounding market, and at the same time, it will also drive up the growth of your own land.

When land prices rise, it will naturally drive up housing prices.

The two complement each other, and it is possible to make profits by pushing up housing prices.

What makes him even more convenient is that because of the same legal and policy similarities, he has completely transferred Hong Kong's hype experience to the UK without even touching many details.

Moreover, real estate speculation in the UK can be even greater, and the British bill has more preferential policies for foreigners to buy and sell houses.

In the past, Liu Datou mainly bought and sold land, and then built houses to make profits. However, he still lacked experience in speculating large-scale houses.

But he was not panicked at all, because there were several such professionals, the Wenzhou real estate speculator trio, around him!

Liu Datou was a little unhappy when Xiao Qi sent them here before, but after he decided on the method of operation, he realized that Xiao Qi had sent him a capable helper!

The trio of real estate speculators in Wenzhou are responsible for inflating housing prices, and he is responsible for buying and hoarding land for land speculation. It is a perfect match!

Branson, who holds 15% of the shares of "Hengxin Investment Company", certainly doesn't know how to do it.

After hearing about Liu Datou's investment direction, Branson helped him find an office space and sent him a lot of market experts without saying a word.

There are legal consultants responsible for real estate sales, retired government commissioners responsible for communicating with the government’s land sales department, analysts responsible for collecting various land and real estate information in London, financial specialists responsible for dealing with banks, and financial specialists responsible for

They provide various support personnel...

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

Xiao Qi's 5 billion US dollars is now in the company's account. Thinking of having so much money for his own use, Liu Datou is breathing heavily.

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 US$5 billion is a lot, it is not something he has never seen before... Well, but in terms of cash alone, he has never seen it.

After collecting and analyzing the data, Liu Datou immediately identified the Westminster district as the first place to raise housing prices.

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

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

These famous buildings, including Buckingham Palace where the Queen and her family live, No. 11 Downing Street, and the British Museum, are all located in Westminster.

It can be seen that this area also spans the Thames River in London and is the center of London.

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

If prices increase in Westminster, then prices in surrounding places such as Lambeth, Southwark, Kensington and Chelsea will definitely follow suit.

In early March, Liu Datou started the first step of the plan.

He first began to purchase large amounts of land in three areas: Lambeth, Southwark, Kensington and Chelsea.

For a time, with Branson's support, he acquired more than 10 large and small plots of land in one month, and spent 5 billion US dollars of funds directly on 1 billion.

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

Wenzhou real estate speculators have always used this trick.

Don't look for cheap houses to speculate on. If you want to speculate, just speculate on good houses that are well-known and very valuable.

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

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

It is easy to buy land and houses, but the process of speculation takes time to ferment.

It is impossible to say that I bought a house this month and sold it the next day at a profit of 12%. This can only fool children, but adults will know that there is something evil inside.

And it’s not enough if the quantity is small. The price increase of one or two houses will not have any effect at all.

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

The Wenzhou Real Estate Speculation Group is very patient when it comes to making a hype. It is definitely not done in twos and threes as everyone imagines.
Chapter completed!