A rich woman in Hong Kong found a new business from her car. Her name is Liao Ai, and she is also called Mrs. Liao.
As early as the 1960s, Liao Jia was already the richest man in Hong Kong, and Mrs Liao's husband was Liu Baoshan, the founder of Chong Hing Bank and the richest man in Chaoshan. At that time, Li Ka-shing had just entered the real estate industry and began to struggle with Liu Baoshan as his idol.
Liu Baoshan got up early to run a grocery store, and then invested in the cloth business. In the first wave of real estate boom in Hong Kong in the early 1950s, he made his first bucket of gold through real estate speculation. Later, Liao Chuangxing Bank was established to attract retail investors to speculate on real estate. However, due to the bursting of the real estate bubble, Liao Chuangxing Bank ran into Liu Poshan and died at 196 1.
After Liu Poshan's death, Liao Liewen and Liao Liezheng and other brothers inherited their parents' assets and companies. But because of their father's lessons, the company has always followed a stable business style, and it is difficult to return to the peak.
1970, Liao Ai, manager of Liao Chuangxing Bank, married Liao Lie, the eighth son of Liu Poshan. 1972, the group was founded and began to set foot in the real estate industry, known as "Mrs. Liao".
Mrs Liao was born in Macau, and her mother was a building materials merchant. She studied business since childhood. She is also engaged in banking, so she is very handy when investing in real estate projects in Macao. It is said that the first project was sold out in one year, with a profit of more than 65.438+0.7 million Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to 65.438+0 billion now).
In the early 1980s, Mrs Liao returned to Hong Kong to develop real estate. Because of her keen business vision, she didn't invest blindly. Most of Mrs. Liao's real estate projects are free profits, and a legendary story has been staged in the real estate industry in Hong Kong.
1993, Mrs Liao began to reduce her investment in real estate, thus successfully avoiding a financial disaster that swept across Asia from 65438 to 0994. While slowing down the pace of real estate business, Mrs Liao found that cars in Hong Kong are very cheap, and many people can't afford parking spaces even if they buy cars. Parking fees are also surprisingly expensive because of land prices. It costs HK$ 30 to HK$ 50 to park in downtown Hong Kong, and the monthly rent is as high as HK$ 5,000.
1999. At that time, the average parking space was 25. 1 10,000. Mrs. Liao spent more than 60 million yuan to buy 180 parking spaces. She basically didn't sell them, and all of them were rented out, which was much less risky than real estate, and the income was considerable.
Later, Mrs. Liao spent 200 million yuan to build a large parking lot in Hong Kong. Each parking space here can bring her a monthly rental income of 5000 to 1 000, so Mrs. Liao is also known as the "queen of parking lots".
The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is bustling for profit. In 2003, with the success of the "Queen of Parking Lot", many rich bosses also took aim at the fat of parking lot, and the arrival of these bosses pushed the parking space rent in Hong Kong to an unprecedented height, and Mrs. Liao made another fortune, surpassing the Liu Baoshan family in its heyday that year.
In 20 17, Liao Ai ranked 26th in Forbes Hong Kong Rich List with a net worth of 2 10 billion yuan. Today, she is worth $3.4 billion (about RMB 23 billion) and is the third richest woman in Hong Kong.
In addition to investing in parking spaces, Mrs. Liao also owns a number of shopping malls and office buildings, and the total value of these properties has reached tens of billions. Coupled with her annual fixed rental income of hundreds of millions of parking spaces and the assets inherited by her husband Liao Liezheng, Liao Jia's wealth has reached hundreds of billions.
She didn't marry into a rich family by virtue of her beauty, but by virtue of her strength, she made Liao's family return to Hong Kong's rich list. It can be said that Liao Ai is also a legendary rich woman. But even if she became a rich woman, Mrs. Liao kept a low profile and was not known until she appeared on the rich list. Her son made a fortune by his own efforts. His son started as a clerk and is now the boss of a startup company. His daughter even founded the third largest coffee brand in Hong Kong alongside Starbucks and Pacific Ocean, and was rated as an outstanding entrepreneur.