Everyone in this world wants to live in the house they bought as soon as possible. Many people think that the house they buy is their home. A lot of people think that a rented house doesn't feel like home.
But many rich people don't think so. For example, Tang Jun, the working emperor, was already worth as much as 1 billion when he went to Xinhuadu from Shanda. However, Tang Jun has never bought a house in Shanghai, but has been living in a hotel. He spends about 2 million a year to stay in hotels. He believes that if you need more than 100 million yuan to buy a house of the same area, and you don't have hotel services, you can earn millions of dollars every year by investing more than 100 million yuan, and you can take more than 2 million yuan to live in a hotel, and you can leave more than 30 billion yuan.
The rich and the poor think differently than the poor. There is a top rich man in Hong Kong, he is sitting on hundreds of billions of assets, but he has been renting a house for more than 30 years. This rich man is Lee Shau Kee. Many people know that Lee Shau Kee is one of the four richest people in Hong Kong, and his strength is second only to Li Ka-shing.
So why does Lee Shau Kee keep renting a house? Lee Shau Kee's Henderson Land is one of the four largest real estate companies in Hong Kong, and one-twelfth of the houses in Hong Kong are developed by Lee Shau Kee's Henderson Land. Lee Shau Kee naturally has his own house, and he spent 1.8 billion yuan to buy a piece of land on the top of Hong Kong in 2010.
After that, Lee Shau Kee spent more than 2 billion to build a mansion. The mansion has been under construction for 13 years, and now the house has been built, but Lee Shau Kee has never moved into his own house. This house can be said to be the first luxury house in Hong Kong, which cost a total of 4 billion yuan to build, and it took 13 years of hard work by the Lee Shau Kee family. So why didn't Lee Shau Kee move in as soon as possible?
This is the difference between the thinking of the rich and the poor. Lee Shau Kee in the 80s, he developed the Wai Yuen community in Hong Kong through Henderson Land. The neighborhood is named after Lee Shau-kee's ex-wife. Lee Shau Kee himself then moved into the largest house in the community.
The house has a total of 4 floors, with a total area of more than 1,000 square meters, and the inside of the house is also very luxurious. However, this house was not actually bought by Lee Shau Kee, but rented by Lee Shau Kee. The community was developed by Henderson Land, a publicly traded company in which Lee Shau Kee is the majority shareholder and not Lee Shau Kee's private company.
Of course, Lee Shau Kee also has the strength to buy the house. But he didn't choose to do so. Over the years, he has been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to rent this house. In this way, after so many years, Lee Shau Kee will have to spend at least tens of millions of dollars on rent. However, the current market value of this house is at least hundreds of millions.
Of course, from the perspective of return on investment, it is sometimes difficult to say that renting and buying are more cost-effective. If house prices are in an upward cycle, then it is better to buy than to rent. However, if house prices fall, or if house prices go sideways, then renting is more cost-effective.
For a rich man like Lee Shau Kee, he actually doesn't pay attention to these things anymore. After all, these are already trivial things for a billionaire like him.
In fact, Lee Shau Kee rents a house, and there may be another problem, that is, he believes in feng shui very much. It is estimated that he also pointed out that he should not live in his own house, so he deliberately rented this house. Of course, the owner of this house is a listed company controlled by him, so the rent actually went into his pocket in the end.
In addition, Lee Shau Kee does not move to his own house now. There is a high probability that it is also related to Feng Shui. Lee Shau Kee is already 95 years old, and at this age, it must be better to have more than less.
Therefore, even if the house is built, Lee Shau Kee would rather leave the house empty than live in it for the time being. Of course, for Lee Shau-kee, what he cares about now must be his own body, as well as the future development of his children and grandchildren, and as for the material things, he has enjoyed enough in his life. Therefore, he has already seen it.
Lee Shau Kee has a younger brother, he has been living in his hometown in Foshan, he is reluctant to follow his brother to Hong Kong to enjoy, and his house in Foshan is 60 square meters, and the house is very dilapidated. Lee Shau Kee once asked his younger brother to go to Hong Kong to enjoy happiness, but he didn't want to go there for a while, so he went back to Foshan.
In fact, many rich people have long looked at the materials. Many ordinary people care about the house, but it is actually just an obsession. In fact, whether the house is your own or not, the relationship is not very big. In this world, the only thing you are is your own is your ability, and everything else is external and will leave at any time.