After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 570 Xiaobai’s phone call

After getting this done, he felt relieved and flew to Singapore.

Excellence Capital has a relatively significant investment intention and requires his consent.

After Li Zhuo arrived in Singapore, he took a taxi directly to Zhuoye Capital Company for a meeting.

What they want to invest in is a local Singaporean company, a used car trading platform called carro.

Although it is a local company, it has actually already started business in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, and also plans to expand to the Philippines and Vietnam.

There are many second-hand car platforms in China, and Uxin, Guazi, etc. are all well-known domestic used car platforms.

However, judging from the financial information obtained, this company is not that simple. It also has a financial technology subsidiary that provides financing and insurance services, and the company also has loan and insurance business licenses.

In other words, this company also plays finance.

Interestingly, Li Zhuo became interested in this company right away.

Investment manager Cai Yan told Li Zhuo:
"I visited Aaron Tan, the CEO of Carro. He is very clear-headed and knows what he wants to do. His development plan is also very clear. Moreover, the possibility of success of this second-hand car platform model is obvious and the potential is not small. I think according to the current situation Judging from the development trend, carro is worthy of our heavy investment."

Second-hand cars are already a huge market, and indeed the possibility of success of this kind of platform is not small.

After Li Zhuo read the information and organized a meeting for discussion, he finally decided to inject 4000 million Singapore dollars, equivalent to 2 million yuan, into carro's Series C financing.

This financing is not large, and it can only obtain about 3% of the equity of carro company. The main reason is that the company’s valuation is already very close to 10 billion US dollars.

This money still has to rely on Li Zhuo.

Excellence Capital did not have that much money in its account, so Li Zhuo directly injected 6000 million Singapore dollars, equivalent to 3 million yuan, into the company to support its investment.

It is almost equivalent to the money Li Zhuo earned this month, which he directly invested in this unicorn company.

If you have money, you will have confidence. Cai Yan then took people to the carro headquarters to negotiate investment.

After settling this matter, Li Zhuo went to the Sands Hotel to rest.

In the lobby of the Sands Hotel, he accidentally heard someone talking about the additional stamp duty that foreigners in Singapore have to pay when buying houses. Before the end of 21, it was 20%. Now it has risen to 30%. In the foreseeable future, it will only rise. There are more, because a large number of wealthy people are now pouring into Singapore, causing housing prices to continue to rise.

Li Zhuo became interested after hearing this.

After all, Singapore is a Chinese-dominated country, and he still has a favorable impression of it.

For this reason, he also searched online and found that in the early years, foreigners only had to pay 4% stamp duty and 4% additional stamp duty when buying a house in Singapore.

But later, as more and more foreigners bought houses, the stamp duty remained unchanged, but the additional stamp duty became 10%.

Still unable to control the capital pouring into the real estate market, the additional stamp duty soon became 20%, and now it has become 30%.

Obviously, this number will not stop and will only get higher.

Li Zhuo wants to buy a house in Singapore quickly before the additional stamp duty rises to an alarming level.

It turned out that he was right. In April 23, the additional stamp duty for foreigners buying a house directly changed to 4%, basically locking out the possibility of foreigners buying a house directly, unless they are really rich and it doesn't matter.

Now that Li Zhuo has thought of this, he will take action.

He called a Singaporean Chinese agent and asked her to show him the house.

The agent showed him three apartments.

First, I took him to see a large flat in the Kaili Haoting Community on Orchard Road. Its area was 264 square meters and the price was SGD 1000 million or RMB 5000 million.

The whole large flat design is still very beautiful and quite distinctive.

There is only one apartment on the first floor, which is relatively private.

The living room has a 180-degree floor-to-ceiling window design, with a floor height of about 3 meters. The living room is quite spacious, and together with the through-type balcony outside, it is very beautiful.

The restaurant is designed with a dining table for 8 people, and the kitchen is quite spacious.

There are a total of 3 suites in the Quiet Zone, all of which are suites.

The master bedroom is quite large in size and has an open dressing room with a very novel design.

This apartment is freehold.

Although the area is not large, more than 260 square meters is almost enough, and it is located on the bustling Orchard Road, so it is still okay.

Li Zhuo basically doesn't have much pressure to buy such a house now, so after reading it, he thought it was pretty good and put it in his list.

Later, he followed the agent to see a large flat near the Sands Hotel.

Its area is 315 square meters, with 4 bedrooms and 1 study room. The price is 1350 million Singapore dollars, equivalent to 6750 million yuan.

After entering the door, Li Zhuo found that this large flat floor was also very beautiful.Both the design and decoration are quite unique. This large flat-floor horizontal hall uses Roman columns and the design of floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides looks very eye-catching.

The horizontal hall is large enough to serve as a dining room and living room. At the end of the living room is the balcony, from which you can see the Sands Hotel.

A study room is built on one side of the living room, which is connected to the master bedroom.

The master bedroom is also very large, with an L-shaped attached bathroom and a full dressing room.

The overall style is light and elegant, which is very suitable for home use.

He also checked out several other bedrooms, and they were all very good.

Li Zhuo couldn't help asking:
"Why do all the flat-floor apartments in Singapore look so exquisite? Are there any designs that are bad?"

The female intermediary explained:

"There are reasons for this. First of all, the more recent the HDB flats built by the Singapore government, the more beautiful and exquisite they are. They are already very involved. In order to sell expensive commercial housing, developers naturally have no choice but to build They need to be better and more beautifully decorated, otherwise no one will buy their house.”

"Secondly, it is also because few Singaporeans are willing to buy these expensive large flats. With such high prices, they would rather buy villas. Therefore, these houses are often sold to wealthy foreign businessmen and executives. Their aesthetics The standards are relatively high, and houses can only be favored by them after they are built.”

Li Zhuo nodded and said:

"That's right. For example, I looked at these two sets and thought both sets were pretty."

The agent then took him to see a large penthouse duplex also located in the city center. It was located on the top 32-33 floors of a building in Marina Bay Grand View Garden.

The area of ​​this house is 750 square meters, with four bedrooms, three living rooms and six bathrooms. The price is 1850 million Singapore dollars, equivalent to 9250 million yuan.

This duplex is awesome because it has two swimming pools, one indoors and one on the terrace.

From the terrace, you can clearly see the sparkling blue waters of Marina Bay, and you can also see the Singapore luxury cruise ship docked on the shore.

The visual experience is very good.

On the 32nd floor, the dining room area has a total area of ​​114 square meters, 20 meters long and 5.7 meters wide. They are all designed with floor-to-ceiling windows, and you can also see the bay in the distance.

The Chinese and Western kitchens are separate and both are exquisitely cooked.

On the 33rd floor is the bedroom area, equipped with a cigar room, gym, etc.

The master bedroom is large, so two cloakrooms are built. The women's cloakroom is larger, and a large dressing table is built in it.

There is a small living room in the bedroom area, and there is a spiral staircase on one side of the small living room. Going up to it leads to a small private courtyard on the terrace, which is suitable for private gatherings of women.

The overall design is also outstanding, and it feels like the space utilization is quite high.

After looking at these sets, Li Zhuo was sure that the large flat floors here were basically designed and decorated well.

He placed an order and bought the 750-meter duplex in Shengjing Haoyuan.

The quoted price was S$1850 million, and Li Zhuo counter-offered to S$1800 million.

Including the 4% stamp duty and the additional 30% stamp duty, the tax alone will cost 612 million Singapore dollars, which is about 3060 million yuan. The tax is frighteningly high.

In order to buy this large flat, Li Zhuo spent 2412 million Singapore dollars, equivalent to 1.2 million yuan.

After the purchase, Li Zhuo Ka still had 14.515 billion yuan left.

After buying this large flat, Li Zhuo went to a 4S store and picked up a Mercedes-Benz Grand G. The price was SGD 70, equivalent to 350 million yuan.

Not bad, Li Zhuo thinks he made a profit. Except for the Mercedes-Benz Big G, the domestic selling price of other models is only about 1/3-1/2 of the selling price of the same car in Singapore.

I drove this big G to buy various daily necessities, and then returned to Shengjing Haoyuan.

Before he even got on the elevator, his cell phone rang. Li Zhuo glanced at the screen and realized it was Xiao Bai.

He picked up the phone.

On the other side of the phone, Xiaobai called him Brother Zhuo, and then stopped talking.

Li Zhuo knew that she had a steady personality, so there must be something wrong when she called her, so he asked her what was wrong.

Xiaobai was silent for a while, and then said:

"Brother Zhuo, I...I'm pregnant."

Li Zhuo was so surprised that he almost dropped his phone to the ground.

He calmed down and asked:
"You said...pregnant? Did I hear you correctly?"

"Well, yes, I'm pregnant." Xiaobai's thin voice came.

(End of this chapter)