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Chapter 138 Buying a Villa

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Haoran arrived at the Wan'an Group Building.

Not long after, Lin Hao Ning also came over, and he came alone without anyone else.

The employees of Wan'an Group were a little surprised to see the new chairman's elder brother, who was once the most likely successor to the group. What was he doing here?
In fact, when Lin Haoran took over the position of chairman of Wan'an Group, everyone already understood that the two brothers must have competed for Wan'an Group, and it was obvious that Lin Haoran succeeded in the end.

In the chairman's office, Lin Haoran stood up and said with a smile, "Brother, please sit down."

Lin Hao Ning nodded, looked around the chairman's office, and was deeply touched.

All the items and furnishings here are not much different from before.

However, all this has nothing to do with him anymore. His energy is now focused on the Wanfeng Fan Factory.

The profit of several million Hong Kong dollars a month gave him hope for development.

As long as he works hard, he believes that his career will be good in the future.

Therefore, Lin Hao Ning was quite grateful to the younger brother in front of him.

If Lin Haoran hadn't told him about the fan market in America, he would still be eyeing the Middle East market.

"Haoran, these are the stock certificates of Wan'an Group. I brought them all here and I'll give them to you." Lin Hao Ning handed the stock certificates directly to Lin Haoran.

"Well, I've asked the legal advisor to draft the contract. Please take a look to see if there are any problems. If not, let's sign the contract." Lin Haoran didn't say much. He took out two copies of the contract and handed them to Lin Hao Ning.

Lin Hao Ning didn't even glance at it casually and signed his name directly.

This is a transaction, and one involving more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, so it must go through normal procedures, even between brothers.

"Brother, I will arrange the funds for you later." Lin Haoran said as he signed.

"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll go back first. There's a lot of things going on at the fan factory, so I won't stay here long." Lin Hao Ning didn't plan to stay here any longer. After all, after selling the shares to Lin Haoran, this place had nothing to do with him anymore.

"Okay, big brother, take care. Come and have tea when you have time." Lin Haoran said politely without trying to persuade him to stay.

Although they are brothers, Lin Haoran doesn't know what to talk about with Lin Hao Ning.

After dealing with Lin Hao Ning’s stocks, Lin Haoran went to the office of Huanyu Investment Company.

Under the leadership of Su Zhixue, the trading members of Huanyu Investment Company have been absorbing stocks of Wanan Group and Hong Kong Electric Group in an orderly manner.

Shares of Wanan Group are easy to acquire because there are more sell orders than buy orders.

However, it is obviously much more difficult to acquire shares of Hong Kong Electric Group.

Although the Hong Kong Electric Company Limited is a listed company without a major family shareholder, its stock trading is very frequent because it has stable dividends every year and its performance is also very good.

There are a lot of buy orders and sell orders for Hong Kong Electric Group in the stock market, and the daily trading volume is not small.

Especially when the Hong Kong stock market entered a bull market, the trading volume of Hong Kong Electric Group's stocks, like other high-quality Hong Kong stocks, also increased significantly.

However, a large trading volume also has an advantage, which is that they can secretly absorb shares and it is not easy for others to discover it.

Unlike the trading volume of Wan'an Group, when the buy orders suddenly increase significantly, it will be easy to find that someone is buying Wan'an Group's stocks in large quantities.

Of course, as long as Su Zhixue and others do not push up the stock price, those who want to speculate on Wan'an Group's stocks will be helpless.

If he took over Lin Hao Ning's 10% shares and then took over the 6% or so shares held by the other six shareholders, even if he did not acquire the shares on the stock market, he would still hold 16% of the shares.

If he absorbs another wave of shares in the stock market, it will not be difficult to break through 90%. At that time, he can directly declare the privatization a success. In fact, Lin Haoran can now apply for the delisting of Wan'an Group, but he plans to absorb another wave of shares in the stock market first. There is no rush for this matter.

Judging from the stock market during this period, it is obvious that everyone is not optimistic about the Wan'an Group that he took over. Even when the stock market was developing in a good direction, no one came to hype this stock.

From the fact that the share price of Qingzhou Yingni Company has fallen so much, it can be seen that everyone is really not optimistic about this young man Lin Haoran.

The main reason is that Lin Haoran’s investments have always been too mysterious. Although he suddenly acquired Qingzhou Yingni, many people think that it was just good luck and Lin Wanan’s support behind the scenes.

As for Lin Hao's investments in oil and gold, few people knew about it, especially the investment in gold. Except for the top executives of Citibank, no one knew about it.

Lin Haoran left the office of Huanyu Investment Company after not staying there for long.

Because a shareholder came to visit.

Lin Wanan specifically asked the four shareholders who agreed to sell their shares at the market price to come first and sign the share transfer contract with Lin Haoran.

For the other two shareholders who requested a 10% increase in the market price, Lin Wanan specially arranged other times.

The transaction went smoothly. In fact, there was nothing much to negotiate. After signing the contract, they gave the stock certificates to Lin Haoran, and Lin Haoran gave them the money, and that was it.

After reaching a deal with four shareholders in the morning and another deal with two shareholders in the afternoon, Lin Haoran successfully acquired the shares of all shareholders' meeting members.

So, on that day, not counting the stocks purchased from the stock market, Lin Haoran's Wan'an Group stocks directly increased by 26%, but he also spent 4500 million Hong Kong dollars for it.

In the stock market, Universal Investment Company also reaped great rewards. He could not buy the shares of Hong Kong Electric Group in the short term, and he did not have the strength to do so at present.

His current task against the Hong Kong Electric Group is to buy as much as he can without being discovered while the stock price is still low. After he obtains huge amounts of funds from the gold market, he will be able to directly control the Hong Kong Electric Group.

As for the privatization of Wan'an Group, it is obviously much simpler. It is even simpler than the privatization of Qingzhou Yingni Company. Therefore, Lin Haoran does not need to worry too much. The rest of the matters can be left to Huanyu Investment Company, and finally it will be finished by Huoduoli Company.

The privatization of Wanan Group does not require borrowing from banks, so it will not cost much if the company that obtains profit is responsible for the finalization.

For the next period of time, Lin Haoran focused on those things every day.

One is the rise and fall of international gold prices.

The second is the progress of the absorption of Wanan Group shares and Hong Kong Electric Group shares.

The third is to handle some important decision-making approvals for Wanan Group and Qingzhou Yingni Company.

On weekends, when Guan Shan was not in Hong Kong, Guan Jiahui would take the initiative to look for him. At this time, he would live in the apartment in Hengfeng Building.

However, Lin Haoran also felt that it was time to buy himself a villa that belonged entirely to him.

It's not very convenient to always stay at Deep Water Bay Villa. It's far and unsafe at night.

It's not that he is short of money now, so it's enough for him to go back to visit his parents occasionally.

And now, the real estate prices in Hong Kong are actually not too high.

The real estate bubble that broke out two years later only caused Hong Kong's real estate prices to drop by about 60% from their peak prices.

The current housing prices in Hong Kong are still far from the peak in 81.

Therefore, it is very cost-effective to buy property now.

This is also the reason why he asked Wan'an Group to take out a loan to buy land.

The most important thing is that the current Hong Kong villa is really not expensive for Lin Haoran.

Nowadays, a villa in Hong Kong, even one in a bad or remote location, can be bought for just a few hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars.

Villas with slightly better geographical locations, such as Repulse Bay and Deep Water Bay, can be sold for just over two million.

As for the villas on the Clearwater Bay Peninsula, you can buy one for just over one million.

However, Lin Haoran has no plan to buy any of these. He would rather buy a villa in the Mid-Levels near Central or the Peak.

Since there are many foreign bigwigs living here, it is the best in terms of security in the whole of Hong Kong.

A few million Hong Kong dollars will not have much impact on the huge amount of funds of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars that he currently holds.

Once he had the idea, Lin Haoran put it into action.

After coming out of the Wan'an Group Building, Lin Haoran asked Li Weiguo to drive to a Jardine Matheson second-hand housing transaction chain store near Central.

Whether it is a villa halfway up the mountain or a villa on the top of the mountain, there are very few new buildings, so if you want to buy a house in these two places, you can only choose second-hand ones.

However, Lin Haoran didn't care much about this. He could just buy the house and redecorate it. Anyway, he had a professional decoration team in his Wan'an Group. If he was not satisfied with the layout of the house, he could change it however he wanted.

As the largest and oldest real estate company in Hong Kong, second-hand property management is an important business of Swire Properties. The company has a guaranteed reputation and sufficient housing supply.

The store is quite large and is located in the most prosperous core area of ​​Central, covering an area of ​​more than 200 square meters. In Central, where every inch of land is valuable, the rent here is not cheap.

"Hello sir, I'm Hu Yuhang, the sales manager here. What's your name? Are you here to sell or buy a house?" As soon as I walked into the store, a salesperson came up to me and asked, appearing very enthusiastic.

Lin Haoran was followed by two bodyguards, and it was obvious at first glance that they were not ordinary people.

"My last name is Lin. I'm here to buy a house. Is there a quieter place?" Lin Haoran looked around the hall, where several customers were chatting with the salesperson.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Lin, I'll take you to the negotiation room inside." The salesman looked like a smart guy.

Soon, Lin Haoran was taken to a negotiation room, and the clerk enthusiastically brought a cup of hot tea to Lin Haoran and the other two.

"Bring the information about your mid-mountain villas and mountaintop villas here, I'll take a look first and I'll ask you if I have any questions." Lin Haoran said directly.

When the salesperson heard this, he instantly became excited, thinking that a big customer was coming.

"Mr. Lin, please wait a moment. I will go out and prepare the information for you right away." After saying that, the salesperson quickly walked out of the negotiation room and gently closed the door of the negotiation room.

Not long after, the salesperson came in with a stack of information.

"Mr. Lin, the information about the mountaintop villas and mid-mountain villas that we at Hutchison Whampoa are selling is all here. You can take your time to look at it. If you have any questions, you can always ask me." The salesperson put the information in front of Lin Haoran and said enthusiastically.

Lin Haoran nodded and started reading it himself.

(End of this chapter)