Billionaire Benko Beats Red Bull King for Coveted Austria Forest

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Austria's Rene Benko outbid individual tycoon Dietrich Mateschitz to purchase an old chasing ground in the Styria area, affirming indeed the affinity for forested land among the nation's affluent. 

Land tycoon Benko's family trust is paying very nearly 30 million euros ($35.8 million) to purchase the Stueblergut property, somewhere between Vienna and northern Italy. The domain with 1,300 hectares of land and timberlands has a little church and a notable motel worked during the 1300s, which filled in as a resting place for explorers going from the south of Europe toward the north. It's being sold by Italy's Morassutti family that has claimed it for over 100 years

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It's an excellent plot of land with an extremely long custom and generally significant structures," Benko said in a meeting. "We're intending to remodel the structure gathering, and for us it's a decent method to differentiate our portfolio." 

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With the buy, Benko will be large balance it into Mateschitz's home district unexpectedly. Mateschitz - Austria's most extravagant man - who assembled his fortune by helping to establish the organization that sells the caffeinated drink Red Bull, has been insatiably purchasing up properties in the Styria area and reestablishing houses that remain on them.

Woods are a most loved resource among Austria's rich, permitting them to withdraw from enormous city life while getting a charge out of the drawn out energy about the estimation of their speculations. Old Austrian families like the Habsburgs and the Catholic church are among the nation's greatest land proprietors. 

Benko has leaseholds on two chasing grounds in the regions of Burgenland and Tyrol. The tycoon, who lives in Tyrol, said he's beginning to put resources into woodlands to broaden his land domain, which incorporates generally retail and office spaces. Before, he has contributed several millions euros to remodel memorable structures in Vienna, making some of them accessible to general society.

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With his Stueblergut buy, he will acquire a hotel that was utilized by wine merchants who walked on ponies and to sell their products. Remaining at just about 1,500 meters, near an Alpine pass, the motel is likewise known for its memorable, open-fire kitchen that goes back over 700 years. 

"This domain is going ahead the market perhaps once in a century," said Klaus Bischof, the land representative who helped the Morassutti family sell the property. He said he just pitched it to a small bunch of individuals who he knew would be intrigued. "You can appreciate it, it's ascending in worth and you can create yearly pay from the wood. It's a decent method to enhance your general portfolio."