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Shopee Boss Buys ‘Second’ Home Former NBA Star Rp. 400 billion, this is what Page all looks like

KOMPAS. com – Founding father Shopee Forrest Li “secretly” purchased a “second” home from Golden State Warriors basketball star Stephen Curry in late November 2022.

Forrest Li is the chairman and chief executive officer of a Southeast Asian technology company, Sea Group Limited (Ltd), which oversees three subsidiaries, namely Shopee Market, Garena video games and Sea Money banking.

Forrest Information Buy them luxury home former star NBA Stephen Curry was known from one of the foreign media that focuses on real estate, Dirt.

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In its report, Dirt said the house, located in Atherton, California, sold for $31.2 million (equivalent to Rs. 485 billion).

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Dirty notes that the transaction made by both parties is a transaction off the market. That means the luxury home was bought directly from Shopee boss Stephen Curry, with no intermediaries or third parties.

The money Forrest Li paid to buy out Stephen Curry’s second home, located in Atherton, California, was $31.2 million (487 billion rupees).

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It was “just $150,000 more expensive” than when Curry first bought it in June 2019, when the Golden State Warriors basketball club moved its headquarters from Oakland to San Francisco.

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Although the transaction took place in secret, some portraits of the luxurious house have also emerged on the internet. Starting from the front and back of the house, living room, kitchen, garden, dining room, all the way to the pool.

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The house that Forrest Li bought from Curry is approximately 700 square meters (US calculation: 7,500 square feet). With a very large square footage, the home features four bedrooms and six bathrooms that are divided at each end of the home.

From the outside, the architecture of the house appears to have a lot of air circulation and is covered in translucent glass.

In short, the house of the Shopee boss has an “open” concept. So if he is outside the house, the owner can still see the room inside through the glass outside the house.

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Facilities available outside the house, consisting of a swimming pool behind the house, sunbathing area, grill area (barbecue), a small living area next to the pool and a separate three-car garage. The garage is located just below the living room, designed in a loft style.

Meanwhile, the interior of the house looks minimalistic and has a classic feel, because the whole house is designed using neutral colors, such as white, black, gray and a combination of other neutral colors.

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Previously, Forrest Li was listed as the richest man in Singapore. However, the tycoon’s fortunes plummeted as tech market stock prices plummeted in early 2022.

The drop in the share value caused him to lose his net worth which almost reached 18 billion US dollars or about Rp. 280.92 trillion.

Even so, Forrest Li is still one of China’s richest businessmen, with a net worth of around US$3 billion (Rp 46.8 trillion).


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