Sunday, June 15, 2014

Billionaires who can buy a city

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Google co-founder Larry Page might no plans to retire in Boca Raton, Florida. But if he wants, he can buy any house in the city. Paige actually can buy all the houses in the city. Redfin analysis gives an overview of the cities that billionaires can buy. Experts divided the wealth of the rich to the average price of real estate in different cities, using data from Forbes about the state of billionaires, writes CNBC. See also: 10 of the most expensive penthouses in the world Walton family, whose collective fortune is estimated at 111.5 billion dollars can acquire all 241,450 homes in the Seattle area. The calculations do not include the surrounding smaller towns, so Walton will not be able to buy the house of Bill Gates in Medina. Microsoft co-founder, however, can buy all of Boston. Condition, estimated at 76.6 billion dollars will go to the purchase of all 114,212 property. His friend Warren Buffett can afford to acquire 280,214 property in Charlotte, estimated at about 56 billion dollars. Co-founder of social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg latest data by Forbes is capable of 27.7 billion dollars. Thus, it can become the owner of 139 124 houses in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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