The Guardian's Return by Old Pumpkin

Chapter 256

Following the rapid increase in housing prices, some major issues started emerging without Stephen and George noticing. Rent had started becoming more expensive. What used to be 2000 dollars per month increased to 5000 dollars within a few days, with signs of further increase.

Many people who had plans to buy houses also noticed that the gap between housing prices and their savings was growing. It was a massive blow, especially to the non-locals who worked there.

Half a month later, the housing prices at Celestial City peaked. James

immediately sold off the properties he owned for eight million dollars each, raking in five billion dollars.

Construction on the food hall had been going smoothly, and work on the development zone was also in full swing.

James had started selling booths in the food hall. There were only 2000 booths, so it was quite limited. Due to scarcity, those booths were extremely expensive. Even spots with lower foot traffic cost two million dollars a year, while the best spots went as high as 30 million dollars a year!

Various food and beverage businesses started taking action, each taking at least three to four booths. Over half of the 2000 booths were sold within a few days.

James collected over 20 billion dollars from that and kept 3 billion dollars for himself while handing the rest to Stephen.

Seeing the funds rise, Stephen and Simon were thrilled.

earned almost 20 billion dollars. Plus, that's just the annual rent. It doesn't include

meticulously calculated

would bring Celestial City at least an annual GDP of 300 billion! Moreover, tourist spots like Azure Cloud

around the tourist spots are still in construction. By the time large corporations move in and

breath. Things added up to about one trillion, which meant Celestial City's GDP would grow by at least one trillion a

three to four years, it'll be enough to cover the losses from the

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too, Riveria achieving a GDP of 20 billion will be

we've finally made it through the tough times. A GDP of one billion- this has been the best

of this, he'd surely

can do better than he could. He'll just have to spend his

out his phone

"Dad, good news!"

sight of Stephen's call, so

what Stephen said.

good news?"

risen," Stephen replied. "I'll send the financial

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Simon's furrowed