Chapter 387: How to own five buildings

At 6pm, twilight is approaching, and the sunny city full of high-rise buildings doesn't let in much daylight, so the sky darkens very quickly, and it's basically dark by 6pm.

In District C, the streetlights on both sides of the buildings near the new development were lit up one after another, shedding an even and warm orange light, and the lights on the top floors of some of the buildings were also lit up, brilliant and bright as diamonds, much brighter than the streetlights, and as glittering and fascinating as the starlight in the nighttime color, which made Yuan Guang and Shi Qian, who were sitting on the street side, tilted their heads up to look at the lights.

"It's so bright." Shi Qian sighs, "The light from all these top floors is so bright, I haven't seen this much light during the day."

"That's natural." Yuan Guang took a pack of bread, a bottle of mineral water, and looked up at the top floors, "That's where the richest people in C district live, usually the whole floor is sold."

"The first floor is more than 320 square feet, and usually there are more than 300 square feet without equalization." Yuan Guang said.

Shi Qian stared in disbelief: "A suite of more than 320 square feet? According to the calculation of 25 square meters here to live five people, this can at least live 52 people!"

"And the penthouse is the most expensive floor, pricing for a floor goes up to 370-400k." Yuan Guang crunched on the information he'd gotten from the sales, and suddenly paused when he said, "That works out to be almost 130 million or so for a floor ......"

Shi Qian, who had been pestered by Xiao Dong, the salesman, to learn more about "Sunshine Nursery", subconsciously began to do the math: "They can mortgage 50 to 1 million dollars for each child here, and for 130 million dollars, that's about 130 children... ...... "

The maximum number of people who can live here is 52, but it takes 130 children to get a mortgage, and it's obvious that these extra children can't possibly grow up to live in the house because there's no space set aside for them, and their names aren't on the real estate license.

According to salesman Xiao Dong, the children who were loaned money by Sunshine will be asked by their parents to get out of their own houses and become independent when they are old enough to work, and they will work harder and harder to save money to buy their own houses while repaying their parents' loans in the coming decades.

That means they will live with the stress of two mortgages for the rest of their lives.

At that thought, Yuan Guang and Shi Qian both felt a sense of suffocation and fell silent.

Yuan Guang looked down at his 10 yuan packet of discounted bread and pinched his fingers tightly around the greasy bag, "Without [Sunshine Loan], according to the average salary level of 4500 or something like that, you have to live in the penthouse, not counting the interest on the loan, even if you don't eat or drink ...... "

Shi Qian Qian a pause, barely haha laughs twice: "It seems like you have to work two thousand years to live in this three hundred square feet of house ......"

Yuan Guang bowed his head and took a bite of the bread and chewed without saying a word, the discounted bread filled his mouth with a smell of expiring sour rot as he bit into it, making him sick to his stomach, and he held back before swallowing.

"This bread is expired, don't eat it." Shi Qian hasn't eaten it since long ago, just holding it.

Yuan Guang lowered his head, "But this bread is a hot seller in the convenience store and I see everyone else lining up to get it."

"Because it's cheap." Shi Qian sighed softly, "We got there late, the eight dollar instant noodles were sold out, a skewer of Kanto boiled here costs sixteen dollars, and people here can't afford anything else but ten dollar discounted bread."

Shi Qian cheered up and patted Yuan Guang's shoulder, "It's all flavored, so don't eat it, I lost a bit of my life value after taking a bite, go ahead and throw it away."

Yuan Guang took a deep breath and let out a hmmm as he stood up on his knees, he looked back into the darkness of the building that looked like a steel forest, only the top floor gave off such a hauntingly beautiful light.

"That sale said the penthouse is the closest thing to sunshine in Sunnyside, so it's always sold well, and rich people rush to get it."

Yuan Guang lost his voice and whispered, "It's only after six o'clock, in the night it's all lit up like the sun, everywhere else isn't a piece of darkness, only the top floor is lit up, no wonder everyone wants to buy a house here."

Shi Qian walked over to the trash can, she turned back to follow Yuan Guang's line of sight, her expression could not hide her complexity: "Because only the tenants on the top floor went home from work at six and turned the lights on, I guess."

"The other floors are filled with ordinary residents who should still be working overtime at this hour."

Yuan Guang was stunned and his thoughts quickly returned, "Yes, they basically work all day without vacation ......"

As Yuan Guang was about to throw the panel into the trash can with Shi Qian, a man suddenly appeared next to him, looking at the bread in Yuan Guang and Shi Qian's hands with glowing eyes, scaring Yuan Guang and Shi Qian for a moment.

The man whispered, "Can I have the bread in your hands without eating it?"

Yuan Guang saw the well-dressed woman with light makeup in front of him by the weak light of the street lamp, and he couldn't help but raise his voice violently, "Xiao Dong?!"

The woman in front of her, guarding the side of the garbage can, is clearly the salesperson who just smiled and introduced them to real estate, Xiao Dong.

Xiao Dong didn't feel embarrassed at all, staring straight at the bread they had already put in the trash can, "Can I have it if you don't eat it?"

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian looked at each other hesitantly, and after Shi Qian nodded his head, Yuan Guang handed over the bread and asked in confusion, "Xiao Dong, you work in real estate sales, your salary is not low, right? How come ......"

Yuan Guang's voice stopped, and he watched with mixed feelings as Xiao Dong finished off a loaf of bread in two gulps, not even taking a sip of water.

...... This thing has been corrupted to the point that he and Shi Qian ate it and lost their life value, Xiao Dong ate it and did not react at all, as if he was accustomed to this kind of food.

Xiao Dong finished eating and patted her hands, smiling that very standard business smile at Yuan Guang again, "I'm just a sales ah, and the front desk is almost the same, where there are plenty of people who want to come, I'm just lucky, good-looking and can talk was chosen by the recruiter."

Yuan Guang asked, "So would you mind telling us how much you get paid a month?"

Xiao Dong didn't mind at all: "Three thousand five."

Yuan Guang listened to the expression of a word, this world actually can not even afford to sell the building to buy a building ...... is really too magical.

Shi Qian inquired, "Normally, you get a draw after you buy a building, right?"

"What's a percentage?" Xiao Dong was slightly confused.

After Shi Qian explained this and that and Xiao Dong, Xiao Dong suddenly realized: "You are talking about this thing ah, this thing is the agent developer to eat, he sold every building can eat twenty-seven percent of the draw, the profit we can not eat, we are just helping the agent developer working just. "

Yuan Guang frowned and asked rhetorically, "Acting developer?"

In the real world he could understand having an agent developer, but now that the land was directly in private hands, did he need an agent?

Isn't it just a matter of pricing what you can and ripping off what you can, and how there is an agent developer in the middle eating the difference in price.

"Yes, every new development has an agent developer." Xiao Dong explains as he wipes his fingers, "The agent developer usually seems to be the top developer, the descendant of the top five developers who hold all the land."

"The five major developers will package the property to their own offspring agent development, the big developers never come forward, are the agent developer to do the property, for example, I know ah, the agent developer of this new property in Area C is the grandson of one of the five major developers."

Xiao Dong says, "The agency developer is primarily responsible for researching the needs, desires, and affordable pricing of Sunnyside's residents, allocating floor space, and designing a variety of floorplans suitable for residents to live in."

"Affordable pricing? Area suitable for residents?"

Yuan Guang, with a twinkle in his eye, followed up with, "So that means the ownership of the new development is in the hands of this agent developer, is it?"

Xiao Dong nods, "Yes."

"Do you know where he lives?" Yuan Guang inquired carefully, "Or rather, Xiao Dong, do you know then that the agent developer behind us for this new development in Area C will show up tonight?"

Xiao Dong pointed back to the top floor of the brightest floor in Area C in the night, "Nuo, that's where he lives."

"He will definitely show up tonight." Xiao Dong pointed to Yuan Guang before turning his head to look at him, "Because this new property hasn't opened for pricing yet tonight, we have to wait for him to come over and give pricing."

Yuan Guang repeated softly, "Pricing?"

Xiao Dong said, "Yes, it's how much the house costs per square foot, right now he should be on the top floor negotiating with other agent developers, and will come over to fix the price of the new property at almost 7:30."

Seven-thirty.

In the bustling, gilded sales hall, the light of the crystal chandelier suddenly dimmed, accompanied by the melodious violin music that sounded at an unknown time, a circle of halo white light hit the door, a middle-aged man wearing a baggy sweatshirt, sneakers, and slightly wrinkled and flattened features appeared in the center of the light.

Everyone fell silent, making a straight path for the man stepping inside the hall with respect and nervousness as the man smiled and greeted those on either side of him with clasped fists and bows, gracefully making his way inside with the circle of light that had fallen upon him until he reached the towering bleachers directly across from the main doors, and turned to all of them to owe yet another slight indebtedness to a bow:

"Good evening, everyone."

Xiao Dong leaned in and whispered in Shi Qian's ear, "He is the general agent developer of Area C. We usually call him C Dong."

Shi Qian and Yuan Guang glanced at each other, both feeling very strange in their hearts.

This C Dong ...... looks like a normal person, and is quite polite.

This so-called C Dong stood on a red wooden grandstand that was more than one meter above the ground, behind which hung a huge ladder embossed crawling painting with wooden boards rising upward grid by grid to a place invisible to the people below, and these boards protruded out of the picture like a ladder, and there were numbers next to the wooden boards, which were sorted like this from 300,000, 305,000, and so on, all the way up to 580,000.

Each grid of wooden boards corresponded to a number, and a blue flag was placed on the board corresponding to [320,000], which was embroidered with the four big golden letters [Today's Property Prices].

This C Dong slowly picked up the small flag from the [320,000] board, and Qian Shi heard the people around him take a deep breath in taut unison, and everyone's eyes rolled back and forth as they looked at the small blue flag.

A child in the crowd whispered:

"Mom, you're pinching my shoulder."

Shi Qian looks over and realizes it's the couple they were consulting on the house with this morning, the mother who squatted down and hugged her child hard, her eyes seeming to have tears in them as she patted the child's shoulder and whispered:

"I'm sorry, it's mommy who's been bad to you, bringing you to a place like this."

The child was cluelessly holding his mother's hand, still smiling happily, "It's okay, mom, we're here to buy a new home, there's nothing wrong with that ah."

The mom took a deep breath and buried her head into her own child's shoulder with a very soft hmmm.

The dad next to him kept his head down and didn't dare look at the boy, his hands shaking a little as he took the other two.

Shi Qian withdrew her gaze as she slowly clenched her hand.

But instead of just lowering the flag, this C-director made a show of putting it behind his back and looking at all of them with a friendly smile, "I believe that all of you have come here for a home."

"Give all the people who come to Sunshine City a warm home, is the common pursuit of all of us, the price of housing is also the most concerned about the problem, for this reason, I and several other districts of the agent developers enough to discuss an afternoon, not even a mouthful of water, is to want to 320,000 square feet of housing prices down a little."

Everyone's eyes started to glaze over, even Xiao Dong was excitedly tiptoeing around in her heels trying to get a view of the front row.

Some people already couldn't help but start asking, flushed with excitement, "Dong C, do you really intend to lower the prices of the new properties?"

Dong C nodded with a smile as he spread his hands in a seemingly helpless manner, "Naturally, I'm already living on the top floor of Sunshine City, and I can earn more than a billion dollars a month, so does it make sense for me to make money off of you guys again?"

"Do I make more and get to go buy a house above the sun?"

C Dong's joke was so funny that all the nervous buyers couldn't help but laugh, and the atmosphere couldn't help but lighten up, and some people below had already started to cajole:

"C Dong the Great Good!"

"I'll definitely try my best to work in Dong C's company in the future!"

The couple was excited too, whispering to each other head to head about it:

"If it comes down a lot, let's not put our kids against it; we can earn it back with a few more jobs of our own."

The man nodded his head quite approvingly, "This new development is recruiting construction workers, the wage price offered is quite good, I'll go and move the bricks, if the price drops to more than 200,000 a square foot, the two of you and I will work 20 hours a day, we might be able to get even."

Xiao Dong was so excited that he was on the verge of tears, but Yuan Guang and Shi Qian felt that something was wrong, they looked at each other and found the same doubt in each other's eyes.

You've got a conscience at this point. What's wrong with you?

Dong C raised his hand and pressed it downward, smiling, "Personally, I really feel that there is no need for the house prices to go up any further ah, I still very much hope that all of you in Sunshine City can work hard to live in a penthouse suite in Sunshine City as I do."

"So after my fight." Dong C took out that flag from behind his back and slowly lowered it, placing it under the bottom $300,000 grid, "The pricing for this new development has been lowered to $260,000 per square foot."

The room was silent for two seconds at this statement, and then everyone yelled as excitedly as if they were crazy.

"Geez! That's the price of a house two years ago!"

"Are you pinching me, am I dreaming?!"

That couple is even more tightly holding the child, the man long breath, the wife directly tears of joy, they squeeze in a small home hard work to raise three children, although said at the beginning of the birth of the child has the heart of the loan, to the present, how all have feelings.

It has been delayed until now, when housing prices have risen so much that this new development in Area C has opened, and only then did I bring my children to ask about [Sunshine Nursery].

How can you raise your own children for years and then be so dry and willing to send them into the fire.

"But." Dong C's brow furrowed sadly as that little blue flag in his hand slowly rose, "Even though the price of the house has come down, my approach has made the agents in several other districts very unhappy, and they're demanding-"

Dong C raised his friendly, affable face, "-raise the commission from twenty-seven percent to forty percent."

"So the price of the house is $260,000 though, and with a forty percent commission, that's a total of-"

Dong C unhurriedly raised the small blue flag and placed it next to the wooden grid corresponding to [370,000], and let out a long sigh to everyone: "I tried my best, the final price is 370,000 psf, you all won't blame Dong C, right?"

Everyone stared blankly at the small blue flag placed on the [37] million, Xiao Dong staggered back two steps, suddenly covered his mouth and ran to the side of the garbage can pale face vomiting, vomiting stomach contents full of expired moldy bread.

That couple fell to the ground in a state of disillusionment, in a trance and hugged their children tightly, they squeezed the contract paper of [Sunshine Nursery] in their hands, there was no light in their eyes at all, and they muttered under their breath, "No blame, no blame C Dong ......"