The Chinese real estate mogul Cheung Chung Kiu It has just broken all the records after paying about 210 million pounds, almost 250 million euros at current exchange rates, for a 45-room palace house in the exquisite Knightsbridge area of London. The house has a pool, spa and classic Italian decor.
The mansion occupies numbers 2-8a Rutland Gate, overlooking Hyde Park. Its white stucco facade reflects the typical Victorian dwelling of the area, has seven floors and occupies 5,760 square meters. Originally there were four semi-detached houses, but in the 80s of the last century they were remodeled to join them.
This price breaks the previous 140 million pound mark for a country house in Oxfordshire nearly a decade ago, or the 125 million pounds that the American billionaire Ken Griffin paid a year ago for another mansion in Carlton Gardens.
In fact, the purchase made by Chung Kiu exceeds the current change to which the founder of Citadel himself, made in 2019 on a triplex ‘in the 220 Central Park South skyscraper in New York, for which he paid $ 238 million (about 210 million euros at the exchange at that time).
CC Land Holdings is the company owned by this Chinese billionaire that is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange and operates mainly in China, although it has been in the United Kingdom since 20016 with the purchase of the Leadenhall Building, better known as the ‘cheese grater’, in the heart of London City , for 1,150 million pounds.
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