Who is China's richest real estate owner? After the frequent thunderstorms of mainland real estate tycoons, many people know that Hong Kong real estate tycoons are still stable. Over the past 20 years, Hong Kong real estate companies have gradually surpassed the mainland property companies in terms of development scale, and now Hong Kong real estate companies cannot compete with mainland property companies in terms of sales.
However, many people have found that the three giants of mainland real estate are large, but the profits do not seem to exceed the four major real estate companies in Hong Kong, and the key is that the debt ratio of the mainland real estate giants is much higher than that of the four major real estate companies in Hong Kong. Now that one mainland real estate giant after another has fallen, it also makes us understand the real strength of Hong Kong real estate companies.
Ultra-high cash reserves, ultra-low debt ratio, do not pursue the company's development scale, only pursue the company's profit margin. In fact, it proves that Hong Kong real estate companies are still old and spicy. Speaking of Hong Kong real estate companies, we have to mention Henderson Properties. Recently, the owner of Henderson Land Properties, Lee Shau Kee, can be said to be frequently moved, on the one hand, his son Li Jiajie has just taken a stake in Aoyuan, a real estate company in the mainland. Subsequently, he spent 50.8 billion yuan in Hong Kong to buy the last large commercial land in Hong Kong's Central, which is also the first coastal land in Hong Kong for many years.
What is the concept of buying a piece of land for 50.8 billion, which is the most expensive land in the world. This piece of land is only 86 acres, which means that the price per acre of land is as high as more than 600 million. The purchase of this land is also a testament to Lee Shau Kee's wealth. This time, Lee Shau Kee defeated his old rival Li Ka-shing and successfully took the land. Many people say that Li Ka-shing is the invisible richest man, but in fact, Lee Shau Kee is the invisible richest man, because Lee Shau Kee's wealth is more than Li Ka Shing.
Two years ago, Lee Shau Kee had spent 23.2 billion yuan to win a piece of land in Murray Road, Central, Hong Kong, which means that in the past two years alone, Lee Shau Kee has invested more than 70 billion yuan to buy land in Hong Kong Central, and with Lee Shau Kee's previous layout in Central, he has become the king of Hong Kong's Central.
Central, Hong Kong, has the highest density of skyscrapers in the world and the highest rent in the world, with financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies, and is also the most prosperous place in Hong Kong. Those who can own one building here are Hong Kong's top giants, and Li Ka-shing's previous possession of three buildings here also proves his strength.
But the best building in Central is Lee Shau Kee's, the Hong Kong International Finance Centre, which is not only the tallest building in Central, but also the most profitable building in the world, with a rental income of up to 10 billion yuan a year.
The rents of Hong Kong's international financial centre are unimaginable to mainland friends. The monthly rent per square meter of the best building in Guangzhou, the Chow Tai Fook Centre, should be around 250 yuan. The monthly rent per square meter of Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in Shanghai, should be around 400 yuan. Beijing's famous China Zun is the most expensive building in the mainland, with a monthly rent of only about 500 yuan per square meter. So how much is the monthly rent per square meter of hong Kong INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE? The answer is around $2,000.
The office building part alone can collect about 9 billion yuan in rent per year, plus the shopping mall part, and the annual rent is as high as 10 billion. The total market value of these lands and Hong Kong's international financial center alone is as high as 300 billion. This shows the immense wealth of Lee Shau Kee.
Many people say that Li Ka-shing has a lot of cash, but in fact, Lee Shau Kee's cash is also very much. Lee Shau Kee can get more than 10 billion yuan in cash dividends from the system of listed companies every year. Over the years, it can be seen how many dividends Lee Shau Kee has received in listed companies. These dividends Lee Shau Kee continues to invest, so as to make more money.
In the Hong Kong stock market, dividends are not taxed, so Lee Shau Kee's annual dividends of more than 10 billion yuan are all in his pocket. Lee Shau Kee has six listed companies, in addition to Henderson Properties, there are also China Gas and so on. China Gas is the only gas supplier in Hong Kong, with annual profits of more than 10 billion yuan.
Many rich people in the mainland are stock rich, and their wealth is all the stock of the company, especially many Internet rich people. However, since the beginning of this year, the market value of many companies has plummeted, so many rich people have shrunk their wealth. In fact, these rich people in the mainland have greatly cashed out through stock reduction and obtained tens of billions of cash, and after Ma Huateng listed Tencent, the cumulative cash-out was only about 30 billion.
Therefore, the rich people in the mainland really can't compare with the rich people in Hong Kong in terms of cash. The rich people in the mainland look at their books with high wealth, and in terms of real strength, Lee Shau Kee is the real richest man. Rich people like Lee Shau Kee have either fixed assets or cash in their hands, of course, they also have a lot of investment assets, but these assets are unlisted.
Lee shabu kee built an investment fund of $50 billion years ago, first in Japanese bonds and later in blue-chip stocks on the mainland, all of which were successful. Within two or three years, Lee Shau Kee's assets had multiplied several times. In Ping An alone, Lee Shau Kee earned more than 30 billion yuan.
Lee Shau Kee is not only the four major real estate developers in Hong Kong, he is also the asian stock god, in fact, his investment is not lost to Buffett, but Buffett is famous, Lee Shau Kee is relatively low-key. Although Lee Shau Kee is rich, he is actually very low-key. For so many years, Lee Shau Kee has been living in a rented house. This is where Lee Shau Kee differs from other Hong Kong billionaires.
Other Hong Kong rich people want to live in single-family villas, thinking that this is good privacy, so as to have face. Lee Shau Kee is in a high-rise house, and the house is still rented. In addition, Lee Shau Kee himself is not very particular about what he eats and wears. Lee Shau Kee's current car is not a Meheba and a Rolls-Royce, it is just a relatively ordinary Mercedes-Benz.
Lee Shau Kee is low-key, but he is very high-profile in charity. Lee Shau Kee had donated a multi-billion dollar plot of land to Help Po Leung Kuk build a low-cost housing project, which had more than 1,000 homes. In the Wenchuan earthquake that year, Li Shaoji donated more than 400 million yuan in one go. Lee Shau Kee's cumulative donations in his lifetime have exceeded 10 billion yuan. Lee Shau Kee is definitely China's invisible richest man.