Chapter 28 Huo Feng's Home (2)
On Huo Feng's birthday, Jiang Yifan prepared a cake for him, but he did not prepare a candle. In recent years, Huo Feng's birthday has always been facing a candle with a strange shape and sometimes a weird taste. Jiang Yifan has become accustomed to it.
But Huo Xinran has no way to get used to it. She buys good-looking birthday candles for Huo Feng every year. Huo Feng relies on Huo Xinran for many things, but he has never made any concessions in the matter of birthday candles.
This made Huo Xinran strongly hostile to the person who gave candles.
Huo Xinran grew up being spoiled.
Although Huo Xinran was born, Huo Feng had no real brother-sister relationship with her.
However, in 2005, Huo Feng graduated from Westminster Public School and returned to Hong Kong, he was obedient to his sister who was only four years old at the time. He hoped that Huo Xinran could have the childhood he had lost.
With Huo Feng being spoiled, coupled with Jiang Yifan, Huo Liang and Grandpa Huo’s spoiling, Huo Xinran is a typical lady’s temper.
If it weren't for Huo Feng's birthday every time he gave it, the person who dared to reject Miss Huo's gift would never have a good life.
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"Will you decide where to buy land today?" Huo Liang asked Huo Feng.
"There is no conclusion yet. In the current policy of mainland China, it is difficult to obtain villa land." Huo Feng shook his head and said.
"It was already like this a few years ago." Huo Liang also understood that the company is currently in a bottleneck period of development.
"Do we still want to continue building a manor?" Huo Feng hoped that Huo Liang could give a negative answer.
"For so many years, we have been building manors. This is the brand positioning, and our advantages are also building manors." Huo Liang's meaning is already very clear.
Many people think Huo Liang is stupid. If the proportion of bank loans is increased, Huo's family is fully capable of doing several manor projects at the same time, or doing manors and apartments together.
In that case, the Huo family will be much larger than it is now.
In the three years since taking over the company, Huo Feng actually doesn't understand why Huo Liang is so conservative in real estate. When it comes to making money, whether it is the scale of profit or the speed of capital recovery, ordinary apartments are better choices than manor-style luxury houses.
No matter how others think, Huo Liang, who has experienced two financial storms, knows very well why his company has come to this day.
The domestic restrictions on villa land use have been around for a long time, and have been around since 2003.
However, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. In the eleven years after the restriction was released, there were a lot more villas in China.
There are a few villa areas that are developed casually after taking the land, then snatching the land and selling it. In the past two years, it has been "secondary development". Some are also really secondary development.
But more common situations are developed through the "flexible use" of the land obtained - dividing the plot into villa areas and ordinary building areas.
If you don’t allow villas to be built, the floor area ratio will not increase.
Nowadays, many high-end communities in large cities have built several apartment buildings in the same community, increasing the floor area ratio to more than 1, and then building a large group of villas outside the apartment building, which requires a single house with a single house, a townhouse with a townhouse, and a double-square team.
If Huo continues to build a manor, there will be no way to use such "flexible rules" and can only take the path of secondary development.
In this way, the road will be much narrower and it will not be flexible.
Speaking of which, this is the first time Huo has faced the situation like in 2014 that he could not get land for villas at all.
Therefore, Huo Feng held a meeting for one day and did not get any results, which was the normal situation.
The Huo family and his son often discuss company affairs while having dinner.
After Huo Feng took over Huo's family, he did not often go back to Huo's manor to live. He usually lives in a hotel-style apartment (serviced-appartment) that he bought near Huo's real estate company a few years ago.
Although Huo Feng has long since disliked the home in Huo Manor, he has been used to being lonely since childhood and still likes the feeling of living alone. Of course, if Huo Xinran doesn't want to stay at home during holidays and wants to live in the apartment, he will also accept it happily.
Since there is no conclusion on the company's affairs, Huo Liang did not continue this topic and instead discussed with him the issue of Huo Xinran's study at St. Paul's Girls' Middle School.
"Sao Paulo is a day high school and needs a guardian in the UK. Are you planning to immigrate?" Huo Feng had some questions about his father's idea of sending his sister to study in the UK so early.
After all, as a boy, he himself went to Westminster Public School after graduating from junior high school. Moreover, Westminster has overseas boarding students and does not need any guardians in the UK.
"There is no plan to immigrate yet. Your Uncle Mu will be Xinran's guardian." Huo Liang answered Huo Feng's question.
Uncle Mu, whom Huo Liang mentioned, is Mu Jingyang. He is the former vice chairman and CEO of Huo Real Estate.
The reason why Huo Feng took over Huo Real Estate three years ago was because Mu Jingyang left.
The ceo that left was able to let Huo Liang hand over his daughter to his custody, which shows that he was quite happy at that time.
Huo Liang came to Hong Kong from Beijing to start a business. It can be said that Hong Kong native Mu Jingyang helped him fight the world together.
When Huo Real Estate was in the most difficult time, Mu Jingyang sold all his house, which allowed Huo to reach this day.
Mu Jingyang is a conscientious CEO. The traditional scene where two brothers conquer the world, but in the end, they can't get involved between Huo Liang and Mu Jingyang.
Mu Jingyang has diabetes. But he worked too hard and often forgot to take insulin. Diabetes is originally a chronic disease, and it is not too difficult to control the injections.
Because Mu Jingyang himself did not take his illness seriously, he began to have serious complications within a few years of illness. The doctor at Hong Kong Yanghe Hospital suggested that he go to the UK for pancreatic surgery and receive new treatment.
In other words, it was not his intention to leave Huo Real Estate at the beginning. If possible, he would rather stay than anyone else. After the new treatment in the UK, Mu Jingyang's physical condition improved significantly, and even changed from having to take insulin every day to one injection a month.
Workaholic Mu Jingyang probably had the idea of retirement because he wandered around the gates of hell.
Huo Liang quickly expressed his understanding of his decision, because he handed over the burden of CEO to Mu Jingyang ten years ago. At first, Huo Liang tried hard to help the work the chairman should do, but later he simply appeared in the company like a idle prince. He only signed a few words and left.
Chapter completed!