American Fortune Life

In the afternoon, Andy held a hot cup of English black tea and stood in front of a curved, oversized landing window, watching the dark sky outside and the brimstone of the leaching rain, beating constantly on the glass, bending down.

“Boss, Mr. Tony Pitt is here. ”

Andy turned around and nodded slightly as his little assistant, wearing a grey turtleneck tight sweater, a black tun skirt and black transparent si socks, "Let them wait in the living room first, I'll be right there. ”

Andy took a sip of black tea and walked to the coffee table to put down the cup, pick up a folder from the table and walk to the living room.

“Good afternoon, boss. ”

“Sit down, don't be shy.” Walking into the living room of the club, Andy saw four people, led by Tony Pitt, a real estate investment advisor, standing up to greet him, and he laughed and pressed down.

“Thank you, boss. ”

“I love this house, Tony. You guys did a great job. I was satisfied," Andy said with a smile to Tony Pitt on the left as he walked into the middle facing the monobloc sofa on the floor window.

“Boss, I hope you're satisfied.” Tony Pitt laughed, then took a folder out of his side and handed it to Andy, explaining: “Boss, this is where we get all the information from the UK Country Trust and from the Ancient Castle Estates that are on sale or intentionally sold through specific channels or connections. “

Andy nodded, reached for the folder, opened it and started looking. As a file with a photo flipped, Andy's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, then looked at Tony and said, "How so cheap? ”

Looking at these three or four million pound old castle estates, Andy was a little speechless, like the one he now sees called Dance Hall, which introduces the original owner as Sir Richard Acollette, one of the fathers of the British Industrial Revolution, a British second-degree historic building situated in Stafford County, covering 85.7 hectares, with 12 bedrooms, along with lakes, oranges, dance halls, cellars and a cricket court, dating back to 1145.

Andy looked at the pictures of the estate's mansion, nothing worse than the castle mansion at Downton Manor.

Tony was anxious to explain: "Boss, buying a castle estate is not expensive, and the key lies in the label of this historic building.

Historical and cultural heritage has many limitations on home renovation and coverings, requires comprehensive structural and maintenance inspections, is expensive to maintain, and some are out of repair for years, even if all rooms need tens of thousands of pounds to be painted again.

As you can see, this Dance Hall estate is cheap, but it has been replaced by several owners, and has not been completely renovated. Simply carrying out a full renovation will cost millions, if not millions, of pounds, not counting the cost of maintaining the castle estate afterwards.

A Waterton estate like this one in Norfolk County, UK, during the Tudor period was priced at only £15 million, which has been renovated and can be checked in directly, but the weekly cost of this mansion is around £2,000, not labor.

The English aristocrats who don't have to work to support the estate have reached Cape Phoenix. It should be a good ending for many aristocratic estates who are forced to hand over their ancestral homes and estates to state trustees and who can continue to sustain their ancestral estates on their own hard work.

The cost of these ancient castle estates is really beyond the reach of the average person.

If you want to earn money from a castle, like a ticket or something. It needs to be approved like the UK government, and then the ticket revenue is taxed, and there are too many UK castles, so if there's no story about the castle, it's basically a deal to pay for it. ”

Andy nodded somewhat unequivocally, knowing that the British estate tax was really fatal, and that a better nobleman would have to sell his family collection to raise taxes when he inherited property.

And the fallen aristocratic families, who would rather give these castle estates to the State Trust than choose inheritance, because for them, these castle estates, which can only cost money, are simply negative assets and will definitely drag them down.

Keeping the photo file open, there are only three other castle estates that Andy can see right now, and the rest of the castle estate is either his favourite style or too small, 7-7 bedroom castle mansion, which is simply no longer within his grasp.

After all, what he needed was not for himself to live in, nor was he interested in living in the humid and cold English countryside. To experience aristocratic life, Andy was even less interested in pretending to be poor 13. Apart from his slight interest in the chaotic private lives among the aristocrats, he felt nothing at all.

“What a nice castle!” Andy looked at some of the familiar Gothic architectural grand castles and couldn't help but look at the price at the bottom and skip his mouth.

Fifty million pounds. Tsk, how dare you open your mouth!

Tony listened to Big BOSS and looked slightly into the photo in the folder in Big BOSS's hand, smiling on his face: "Boss, this Hecklier Castle in West Berkshire, London, belongs to the family of Earls of Canavern and currently belongs to the eighth generation of Earls of Canavern, George Herbert and Countess Fiona.

Since the inheritance of the estate in 2003, they have been trying to do everything in their power to maintain the estate and to develop the surrounding land, although the £1 million annual maintenance and management fee for the estate has made it difficult for neighbours to afford it, especially since last year, because of the steep decline in the business of collecting tourist tickets.

Although they did not sell publicly, we received this message from a specific circle and contacted each other to confirm that they did intend to sell Castle Hecklier.

The castle has been inhabited by the Count's family and currently has 20 full-time servants. The castle has remained almost intact since World War I, although 20 per cent of the estate's land has been sold due to inheritance taxes, but there are currently 4,000 acres of land on the estate.

The archaeological supporter and participant in the discovery of the world famous Tutankhamun Gold Mask is the fifth generation of the Earl of Kanavin, but soon died of sepsis in Egypt, while the loyal dogs of the Earl, far from the castle, barked more than... “

“Oh? Pharaoh's curse, huh, is really a family with stories, kind of interesting.” Andy smiled slightly, and the truth and falsehood of the story didn't matter to him, but the key was the orderly inheritance and preservation of the castle, which he used to shoot Downton Manor, satisfying the idea of packaging marketing as a tourist hotel.

“Oh, £50 million, but it's not cheap at all. If the deal is to be made, it can be taken away except for their personal belongings. Everything else has to stay the way it is, all right? ”

Tony heard the big boss and hurried back: “There should be no problem. I generally asked when I called to confirm the message. They are sold as a whole. ”

“Well, let's start the conversation with the Counts, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and I'm going to see Castle Hecklier.” Andy looked at the pictures of the castle, and he couldn't help but whisper.

“Good boss, I'll get in touch with them in a minute. ”