Chapter 951 This feeling is so beautiful
This is true. Even in 1995, the house in this location would not be less than $15,000 per square meter. And the old Mike was able to buy this building for $40 million, which was only about $10,000 per square meter, which was definitely a bargain.
Because this building was a museum before, after buying it, Old Mike did not make any noise about the building except for a simple renovation and replacement of security facilities. Therefore, all the antique artworks purchased by Old Mike over the years were placed here.
The museum is specially protected by people from the Dark Shield, so there is no need to worry about safety.
When Yang Jing walked into the museum, he was shocked by the dazzling array of antique artworks inside.
Yang Jing felt that there were enough treasures he had found in the treasures, but compared with the antique artworks that Old Mike has collected over the years, the number is still far inferior.
There are thousands of antique artworks in the museum, most of which were collected by Mike before the New Century. Yang Jing remembers that Mike once told him a number that over the years, the money he spent on purchasing these antique artworks alone was as high as 2 billion US dollars. The museum has collected about 4,200 antique artworks in total, and the average purchase price of each antique artwork is about 500,000 US dollars.
Most of these antique artworks were acquired by Mike in the 1980s and early 1990s. The US dollar was quite valuable at that time, and the price of $500,000 was definitely not low.
Of course, among these antique artworks, there are oil paintings painted by top masters with a price of tens of millions, and there are also complete sets of antique silver tableware that are only tens of thousands of dollars. However, whether it is oil paintings or those silver tableware, the price has increased several times until now.
Like Paul Cezanne's oil painting called "Out of the Bath" that Old Mike once spent 13 million US dollars to be auctioned from an auction in Europe, now if it is on sale, 100 million US dollars is just the starting price!
Even the complete sets of royal silver tableware for the Victorian British royal family that he bought for tens of thousands of dollars was now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!
Therefore, investing in antique art is actually a very good deal. Of course, the premise is that you should invest in antique art early enough. For example, as Yang Jing told me, he started investing in antique art in the early 1980s, which is naturally a very good time. If you enter the new century and invest in this industry, it would not be very meaningful.
In general, the collections of this museum alone are now worth no less than 20 billion US dollars!
It is no exaggeration to say that if Yang Jing has no money in the future, selling these antique artworks will be enough to make him live a comfortable and comfortable life for eight lives.
After the escort convoy arrived, the person in charge of guarding the museum's dark shield took over the rest of the work. Although the museum is called a museum, the museum has never been open to the public since the old Mike took over. To put it bluntly, this museum was bought by Old Mike and used as a vault.
Although it would be safer to store these antique artworks in the bank vault, it would easily expose the specific situation of these antique artworks. So old Mike wisely bought this museum as a vault back then.
Anyway, it is a private museum, and no one can tell anything else if I don’t open to the public. Besides, the dark shield is not short of people. A large group of trusted retired soldiers squatted here and took turns on duty twenty-four hours a day. I guess no thief dared to look at him.
This is a private museum. If anyone wants to dare to commit crimes from here, those retired soldiers with weapons will definitely let the thieves feel what the battlefield is in Iraq or Afghanistan is.
There are many people and great power. Besides, these boxes don’t have to be opened and re-placed after being transported to the museum. You just need to ask Yang Jing to open and check it, and then place it in order. So, after a group of people worked hard for more than ten minutes, all of these boxes were moved into the museum.
Seeing all the babies safely entering the museum, Yang Jing and Nathan were completely relieved.
After the old Mike comes tomorrow with the museum's famous director, he can issue a document for "cultural relic exchange" for all the items in the museum. Yang Jing also has a Grand Canal Museum in his hand. No one can say anything else.
As for those antique artworks that are not allowed to leave the country, who cares about it! Who can control it? With the current connections of the Dragon Fund, even the US Customs cannot manage these antique artworks that conduct cultural relics exchanges.
At worst, those sensitive antique artworks can come out directly under the name of "dictionary"!
Of course, it is necessary for experts to do these procedures. Those artworks can be left abroad, but those artworks cannot be left abroad, the curator who is named knows the best. The curator knows the best about how to handle the cultural relics exchange procedures. With experts, plus money and connections, everything is fine.
However, it will take several days to go through these procedures, so Yang Jing is not going to wait here. When he explains to Old Mike tomorrow, he will need to return to China. After returning to China, there are still a series of things to be handled.
That night, Yang Jing moved into the apartment on Fifth Avenue, which was the first apartment Yang Jing bought in New York.
After the US stock market crash broke out, the prices of real estate in the United States plummeted. Old Mike took the opportunity to take action and bought such a top-floor leap apartment for Cole Smith on Fifth Avenue. This was also the first property Yang Jing bought in the past time and space.
The location of this house is very good. It is located in the southeast corner of Central Park, opposite Central Park, and next to it is the Plaza Hotel. The house has three floors, and the two floors above are still leaping layers. There is also a huge sky garden outside, with a total area of more than 12,000 square feet, which is about 1,100 square meters.
When I bought this house, it only cost $9 million because of the price plummeted. Now, the value of this house has exceeded $100 million. If it were placed at the highest point of the US housing prices before the subprime mortgage crisis, the price of this house reached $150 million!
However, after buying this house, Yang Jing rarely lived. When he was in New York, he lived in the manor in East Hampton, Long Island for most of his time. This time, Yang Jing didn't want to go to Long Island anymore, so he lived here.
Although the house has been bought for more than 30 years and has not been inhabited for a long time, the house is well maintained. Although no one lives in this house, the property fees paid for one year are extremely high. If the property company in this apartment building dares not maintain the house, Yang Jing can sue the property company!
Only by living in a top-floor luxury apartment that is dozens of floors high can Yang Jing personally feel what the super rich class is.
No matter what, no matter how much or how much I suffered, when I stood on the large rooftop outside this house and looked down at the Central Park opposite, all the hard work would drift away with the wind!
This feeling is so beautiful
Chapter completed!