Chapter 394 The reason for David Stern’s crazy licking

There are many places called Manhattan in the United States, which may be roughly equivalent to various "chengguan towns" in China.

It is said that there are 170 Chengguan towns in China, and the area called Manhattan in the United States only has many more.

The most famous one is of course Manhattan in New York.

It is so famous that in most people's eyes, when mentioning Manhattan, it refers to Manhattan Island in New York.

Here in California, in a place called Manhattan, there are dozens or hundreds of them.

The smallest one is a road in Southern California called Manhattan Road...

The most famous "Manhattan" in California is Manhattan Beach.

To the south of Manhattan Beach is El Segundo and to the north is Kamosha Beach.

It's not very far from Santa Monica Beach, but there are far fewer people here than Santa Monica Beach.

This is why many Hollywood stars prefer this place.

In fact, Manhattan Beach is far less beautiful than Malibu Beach.

The key is that it's close to Hollywood.

It takes almost two hours to drive from Malibu Beach to Hollywood, and the traffic jam doubles when leaving the city on weekends.

It only takes half an hour to drive from Beverly Hills to Manhattan Beach without traffic jams.

It is also one of the famous wealthy areas in the United States.

Land and housing prices have huge potential for appreciation.

Therefore, Xinqidian Real Estate Company has also purchased more than a dozen houses here for a long time.

Abel has been called "the world's craziest luxury home buyer" by many major media outlets, and he is not a name for nothing.

Having said that, Xinqidian Real Estate Company is not really like a real estate company.

First of all, it can only be bought, not sold, and at most it can be rented out.

Secondly, the most important core capability of a real estate company - real estate development and construction, is almost nothing.

New Qidian Real Estate Company does not even have the most important construction department of the real estate company...

Except for a super-high-rise residential building project in New York that we collaborated with Papa Ikana's company, there are no other projects under construction.

To be precise, Abel's positioning of New Starting Point Real Estate Company is that it is a real estate speculating company and a tool for Abel to pick up girls.

Abel knew that by the end of 2006, real estate in the United States would have doubled as a whole, and several times in some areas.

It looks very much like China in 2013-19.

If you don't make this money, you won't make it in vain.

What's more, things like houses are no matter whether they are ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, or even in the animal kingdom.

It has always been one of the main tools used by males to attract females and let them spread their genes for reproduction and expansion.

The Manhattan Beach villa where Abel and Annie are currently located is located at 3120 Oceanfront Hotel Road, Manhattan Beach.

It has 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms, with an interior building of 6,699 square feet and an area of ​​9,690 square feet excluding the private beach.

Including the private beach, the total adds up to more than 15,000 square feet.

New Starting Point Real Estate Company purchased it at the end of 2000 for only US$8 million.

Now its price on the market has nearly quadrupled.

I can only say that whether it is the property market or the stock market, when the market is bullish, making money is really profitable.

Walk down the wooden trestle of the villa.

Arriving at the private beach, Abel took the DV and filmed herself running around like a child, and then put on all kinds of charming poses in front of her, showing that her career was obviously much bigger than a year ago, and her youth was invincible.

Looks quite beautiful.

Annie happily stepped on the water, hitting the waves, and the sea water reached her waist. Abel turned over the DV and raised his arms. Annie snuggled in Abel's arms, raised her chin, and kissed Abel on the cheek. At this time, she saw behind her

When a huge wave came, he was so frightened that he ran away with a frightened expression on his face and his upper row of white teeth, which looked quite funny.

"Ha ha……"

Abel, who took pictures of all his expressions, burst out laughing, leaving Annie, who was embarrassed to avoid the huge waves, to run over with gnashing teeth in embarrassment, jumped up, put her arms around Abel's neck, and lay on his back.

Abel held her up, while Anne lay on Abel's shoulder, biting Abel's ear, and said coquettishly: "I'll bite you to death..."

"Haha." Abel carried her on his back and walked to the beach. The DV in his hand kept taking pictures of the two of them. "Actually, if you are willing, I can fulfill your current wish."

"Bah! Big wolf!"

Annie, who was already well versed in this, immediately understood and spat angrily, showing how much a white lotus had been polluted by Abel.

"There is a big rock over there, we can..."

"Pooh!"

Upon hearing Abel's proposal, Anne's foxy eyes sparkled, her pretty face flushed, and she bit Abel's shoulder with a look of embarrassment. However, she did not reject it, but instead had some exciting expectations.

When the two figures disappeared behind the rocks, it didn't take long before Annie's angry scoldings were heard.

"Asshole, turn off the DV"

"Haha, such a beautiful scene must be kept as a souvenir..."

More than an hour later, in the evening, the warm sea reflected the gorgeous sunset.

Under the colorful umbrellas on the viewing platform of the villa's wooden plank road, the aroma of fine wine wafts out.

Abel hugged Annie, who was already asleep, and pulled the blanket covering the two of them. He looked at the orange fireball hanging on the sea level, dyeing the entire sky red. It was so beautiful that it was intoxicating.

Lowering his head and kissing Annie's hair, Abel smiled lovingly.

As the sunset disappeared over the sea level, Abel lifted off the blanket, stood up from the lounge chair, wrapped Annie in the blanket, hugged her horizontally, and walked to the bedroom.

"Um?"

Annie, who had a hint of tiredness on her pretty red face, opened her sleepy eyes, saw Abel's smile, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and closed her eyes again. For Annie, everything these days has been her paradise.

Life.

I really want to live like this forever, but it is ultimately unrealistic.

Not to mention that Abel was so carefree and busy.

Even now, in a little while, Amo Alamuddin, who went out to negotiate with BMW and Volkswagen on behalf of Abel today, may be back.

BMW and Volkswagen have been sued by the British Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Group for half a year.

There is no doubt that the venue for the appeal is the Supreme Court of Justice in London.

Plus Abel's influence there.

As the saying goes, the referees are all mine, how can you compare with me?

This lawsuit, which has already been heard once, puts Volkswagen and BMW at a disadvantage.

According to the judgment, the acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Group by Volkswagen and BMW is invalid and illegal.

As long as the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Group can pay the "ransom", that is, the funds from the acquisition, and return it to Volkswagen, then it can regain its freedom.

At that time, Volkswagen purchased Rolls-Royce from the Vickers Group for 1.44 billion marks.

According to the exchange rate at that time, it was about 710 million U.S. dollars.

If the judgment of the London House of Lords can be implemented, Volkswagen and BMW will not only lose Rolls-Royce, but also lose some money.

Because the current exchange rate is that the U.S. dollar is stronger. 1.44 billion marks can now be exchanged for only 700 million U.S. dollars.

In fact, the mark is almost withdrawn in Germany, and the euro is replacing the mark.

This verdict, even if inflation and business factors are not taken into account, would be a loss of tens of millions of dollars.

Volkswagen and BMW were naturally dissatisfied and appealed while mobilizing their connections and energy.

Rolls-Royce Aerospace Engine Company, for example, has started to use its same tactics again to put pressure on Rolls-Royce, trying to make Rolls-Royce Motor Cars succumb.

Because of the Rolls-Royce engine, it has too many technologies that require the use of patents from BMW and Volkswagen.

The main body of the Rolls-Royce trademark is in its hands again.

The families have already been separated, and Luo Luo is too lazy to care about the life and death of Rolls-Royce.

As long as it can continue to use BMW's technology patents, it will be fine.

In the acquisition case a few years ago, Rolls-Royce was able to be transferred around because of the threat from Rolls-Royce.

This time when they encountered danger, BMW and Volkswagen came up with this trick again.

It's just that this time Rolls-Royce Motor Group has Abel's support behind it.

Faced with the threats and pressure from Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce did not give up this time.

Currently, many parties are facing off in this prosecution case.
To be continued...