The Paper's reporter Lu Mei
At 10 o'clock on November 10, the former residence of Cai Yuanpei's daughter, which was listed for 120 million yuan in the West Lake Scenic Area of Hangzhou, began an online auction, and no one registered until the auction began. According to the rules, if there is no bidder by 10:00 on November 11, the subject matter will be declared a sale.
On the 10th, the surging news (www.thepaper.cn) saw from the auction webpage that the target was a dangerous house, with a starting price of 120 million yuan, attracting more than 30,000 people to watch, but 0 people signed up to bid.
The rules show that participants in the auction need to pay a deposit of 10 million yuan, and each price increase is 500,000 yuan.
"There are some prospective buyers who come to the phone to inquire, but we don't know if anyone will sign up for the auction in the end." The relevant person in charge of the auction agency told the surging news on the 10th, "Because it is a dangerous house and a historical building located in the West Lake Scenic Area, the subsequent steps such as the transfer, repair and reconstruction of this property require the buyer and the relevant departments to apply for approval and discuss one by one." ”
The terrain around the auction target
According to the auction information, this property is the former residence of Cai Yuanpei's daughter Cai William and son-in-law Lin Wenzheng, located at No. 1 Yuquan Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, in the Botanical Garden of West Lake Scenic Area, with a construction area of 276.08 square meters, a land use area of 269 square meters, a land use right type of allocation, and a house use of residential.
Public reports show that William Cai is the eldest daughter of Cai Yuanpei, after returning from studying in France in the last century, she served as a professor of Western painting at the National Art College in Hangzhou, and Lin Wenzheng was the provost of the school. In 1934, Cai Yuanpei gave the couple a sum of money, which they used to build their own house on Maling Mountain by the West Lake. Cai Yuanpei often came to stay and wrote four words for the villa in his own handwriting, "Maling Mountain House".
The surging news saw from the auction page introduction video that the property included 3 houses, the doors and windows fell off, and some of the walls collapsed. In 2016, the house was identified as a Class D dangerous house.
The stone stele outside the former residence shows that in March 2010, the Hangzhou Municipal People's Government listed the site as a historical building in Hangzhou and introduced it as "the former residence of Cai Yuanpei's daughter Cai William and son-in-law Lin Wenzheng, built in the 1930s, including three Western-style buildings." ”
Editor-in-Charge: Xie Chunlei