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HFT Pays: Citadel's Griffin Buys Palm Beach Oceanfront For $80 Million
While 88% of hedge funds underperformed in 2012, no doubt relying on tried and true analysis of fundamental valuation, macro-economic trends, and flows (as opposed to a 12-inch ruler), it would appear one young chap by the name of Ken Griffin is doing rather well. As Bloomberg reports, the Citadel LLC fund founder (now gated since 2009) just purchased his second luxury oceanfront property in Palm Beach Florida in less than two months. In fact, Griffin bought the two lots for a total of $79.6mm. The compact-and-bijou house of a mere 6,055 square feet was built in 1988 and previously sold for $29mm in May 2011, was Zestimated at $33.75mm (by Zillow), meaning Mr. Griffin only 'overpaid' by a mere $8mm as he snipped it up a smidge under $42mm. The grander house, of a perfectly reasonable 9,111 square feet previously sold for $20mm in May 2000, was Zestimated at $21mm, and was bid at $38mm by the deal-making Citadel founder. It seems, given Citadel's 21% return through November, that being the Fed's alleged willing HFT-router-of-last-resort in times of 'market' need, has its handsome rewards - though all that sand would just get annoying.
Seems ok...
40 Blossom Way - looks like a clean up is in order...
50 Blossom Way - could be worse we guess...
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Thats nothing. Google Ed Bosarge of Quantlab Financial and his super sailboat yacht and WWII airplane collection
http://www.quantlab.com/
"Quantlab is a dynamic, technology-driven firm supporting a large-scale quantitative trading operation"
Maybe he will feel safe there, but it didn't work out for some
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jeffry-picower-madoff-billionaire-found-de...
I was going to buy that, but it had termites.
Termites don't matter. Those two houses on Blossom Way were bought to be torn down. Yup, I think they're "tear-downs". Mister Bigshot now has plenty of land to build a decent size cottage worthy of the neighborhood, and that would be about 30,000 or 40,000 square feet. The neighbor to the north at 50 Blossom Way has a house that's 30,000 square feet on 4 acres. Mister Bigshot has a little more than 4 acres with the two lots, and it is a really good location.
0% state income tax is why many rich buy and declare residency in Florida.
FL 0% state income tax is all they can charge to live with the dead.
When the revolution comes, I will send my CV in to be head executioner for all of these motherfuckers. That would be one 9-5 I'd go to with a smile on my face every day.
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Gilligan's Island
Here is a fun fact. In Florida, the public owns the beach seaward of the median high water line, which means the wet sand. Anything that usually gets covered at high tide is public property.
What that means is any Joe Schmo can hike on down the beach and stake out a good spot with an ice filled cooler of beer right behind this house. If you notice on the lower picture, there is a line of dark seaweed, which is the high water line. From there to the ocean is public property. The only problem is access. You can't exactly cut through the guys yard to get there and the nearest access way is about 2.5 miles down the road.
However, if we all piled into my boat, we could drop anchor behind Griffins house about 10 yards offshore and then wade up to the beach. What fun!!
Any takers?
By the way, on some days, surfing in the area is pretty good. There is a nice break south of the Palm Beach Inlet.
Don't these crazy bastards know that whole area is about to be underwater soon?
We'd get Current TV on the job.....but uncle Al sold it to the terrorists.
Let's break it down.
There is more money investing in florida beach property to have the Atlantic wash it away for the insurance than there is to flip it. Buying an 80 million dollar home in Florida...LOL. Pieces of the state can't be sold for a grand for a house and lot. Beach front or otherwise...
Whoelse has just bought worthless, yet over priced, real estate and then connect the dots.
I expect southern Florida to disappear in the near future. Same with New Orleans.
I'm with you AlaricBalth. Give him time to move in, and then I'll get some Patrone and it's marguaritas for everybody!
Thank you. I always wondered why no one bothered me when I'd jog along the beach past private enclaves. (South Beach parking to Spanish River Boulevard / NE 40th Street Boca Raton)
I know the place. Used to run up the beach and then through Spanish River Park.
He is involved in credit derivatives also
Well.....it is the future....at least that's how it was explained to me.
At closer glance it appears the last tramp at the pool left her tits on the deck and yes them shit boxes are getting demolished. The mercs need at a minimum of 2000 s.f. just for their gear.
And they are going to need earplugs. His lots are practically underneath the flight path of airport traffic at PBIA. Trump's Mar A Lago is just North of these properties and when planes go overhead, which is frequently, the noise is quite loud. Any old time Palm Beacher will tell you that if you buy South of Worth Avenue you cannot hear yourself think at times. It has always been said on the island that the smart money buys North of Worth.
We were thinking about a place (the Atria?) just across the border in Lake Worth. 1983? I guess I'm the dumb money. Would appreciate your email address. I've registered westpalmbeach.in, wpb.info.
Are you referring to the Atrium? Or the Atria Meridian in Lake Worth?
alaricbalth@gmail.com
So he overpaid by $25 million for 2 houses on a flood prone spit of land. So he can tear them down and build something really expensive. That he can't buy flood insurance on.
What does this tell us about his ability to make shrewd financial decisions? So did he make all that money because he is a really good trader? Or because the game is rigged?
What does this tell us about his ability to make shrewd financial decisions?
He understands it's worthless paper.
So did he make all that money because he is a really good trader?
He knows something about trading.
Or because the game is rigged?
If he is acceptable to the tribe that certainly is worth a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$. Ask JP Morgan, he certainly was acceptable.
Coconuts are the currency on Gilligan's Island... Until the jews arrive... Then it will be debt based "paper coconuts"...
He's running the Florida property insurance scam. The 80's were full of them. No tricks like the old tricks.
I wonder if he's arranged for a goodly portion of the "price" to be kicked back to him now that he's booked the insurance value.
In florida, it would not be the first time that has happened.
When property values collapsed in the 80's there were shit loads of scams uncovered in Florida of the property variety. Florida is fun. It's cheap...even cheaper in a financial collapse.
Are you saying Citadel and Griffin front for the same entity that JP Morgan did?
How convenient. The old Morgan was probably not in favor the Rothschild's plans. I'd like to see a movie made on that.
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/359256%7C0/The-House-of-Rothschild.html
A sympathetic portrayal of the Rothschilds out of Hollywood. Imagine that.
No, I think that you mean that termites are on the way in!
It's good to be the king.
I'm still paying off my tennis shoes.
http://www.angrysinner.blogspot.kr/2013/01/saturday.html
Tyler: why isn't there a Zerohedge hedge fund yet?
ZHG seems to be a completely free ticker.
I love the smell of Napalm (beach) in the morning!
ZHG!
Shareholders meetings would be legendary mayhem.
ar01
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"We will start the shareholders meeting all in favor say "aye...fuck you bernake."
"AYE...FUCK YOU BERNAKE!"
SANDY! COME BACK!
FIDEL! GET FRISKY!
The real question is, does he have any handguns? I'm sure our friends @ The Journal News, a Gannett Co. are more then willing to help us out.
This is a Liberal "WET DREAM"... You missed the <sarc> you dumbassed junkster!
He needed the extra lot to store all the gold and silver he's been stacking
I don't know, but, it's not a bad place to be found dead, right?
Anyway, is't there a turtle nesting ground to be found around 'his' place, nest egg protection.....
It is still legal to launder money via real estate transactions.
Maybe he bought and sold that property 80 million times in the past 24 hours and ended up overpaying like a jacka$$....lol.
Sonofabitch.
Yes he paid 80 mill. But when you pay 80 mill someone benefits from that. Much better to get the land for free.
Ken is good at what he does, he should be admired for taking money from schmucks.
I'd agree, if HFT were legal. It's not, and the authorities just look the other way. Maybe they're hoping to get invited to the house he builds after demoing these two dumps.
Sorry, someone scalping a few pennies here and there is not going to move the markets especially when the buys offset the sells.
A few pennies per share and large lots a few thousand times a second does move markets.
And when it moves they ring the cash register a few thousand times per second.
That's why he can buy bulldozer bait for millions.
Yeah but running any type of large priced insurance fraud in Florida is a HUGE red flag.
Florida: Disney, Retirees and property scams.
"Never buy property which sits at sea level"
From the look of those high water marks, maybe, at times, below sea level.
LOL. Thought the same from that picture. Tide looks like it reaches the tree line.
And sometimes in Palm Beach you wake up with a freighter behind your house.
http://www.numa.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mercedes-wreck-300x206.jpg
Note it in the listing as a guest beach house.
Remember, this is Florida we are talking about.
Who "coined" the term { Fortress Reserves}? It sure as hell wasn't Jamie pukebarf Dimon. It sure as hell wasn't Fortress Energy Inc. (TSX:FEI)
We here in the Sunshine State know where the rich bitchez live. Most beachfronts are accessible by boat.
Most boats are sinkable with a finite number of holes.
He bought the wrong side of A1A.....the other side has the boat docks....I guess he is not a boat man.....oh well.....
Anyway-I am sure he does not need to buy Hurricane insurance...the federal government insures by default all the water front properties....
And I thought the sea level was rising...
I bet alot of "Quote Stuffing" goes on in there, hehehe.
Here Quote Here Quote
Now if that big chunk of the Canaries on the other side of the Atlantic was to say slide off, that will happen some unknown day, how much of them would be left after the tsunami? ROFL
Florida sucks. You couldn't pay me to live in that place (unless there were hot sluts all over).
"You couldn't pay me to live in that place (unless there were hot sluts all over)."
Pack yer bags, devo... yer movin'.
*Sings the Jefferson's theme song*
Tampa and south is the land of the best titty bars in the world.
Gee, set the priority bar any lower and we'll have to bury it...
"This one time we went up to Florida..."
http://www.collegemagazine.com/editorial/2225/Top-10-DTF-Colleges
Looks like you are clear for landing devo, the dirty whore per capita is number four in a nation of 340 million. Pardon it appears Florida is competing for the entire top ten of gutter tramp places of higher learning.
And of course a listing of the places you are going to enjoy the quiet solitude of Jerkins hand lotion.
http://www.collegemagazine.com/editorial/2104/The-Top-10-Most-Sexually-R...
Please note that Florida isn't on that map.
There probably are hot sluts all over the place--and I still wouldn't live there. A Florida address--no matter how nice--says one thing, and one thing only: I AM TRASH.
Naples is so much better. That's where my 80 million dollar house is.
"behind every great fortune there is a crime"
Calling Scarface... we have a mission for you.
I never tire when Scarface is being screened. Tony Montana, is the consumate capitalist!
Have you ever watched the original Scarface? Scarface (1932 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No. The people in Naples are nicer because they are usually midwesterners and the rich ones usually had factories and actually built things. The ocean on the east coast is better and the climate is better. Naples is more humid.
Ken Griffin grew up in Boca Raton. Jupiter Island is a lot nicer but Palm Beach are for those who like to socialize in the winter.
Any thing out of Chicago is crooked.
Enjoy those bath salts!
It's fairly safe to assume we have the "lower ranks" of our \Armed Forces/ on our sides.
The banksters were a " formidable foe" back in the 40's. U.S. and New Zealand tested top secret 'tsunami bomb' during WWII — like something out of 'James Bond' - NY Daily News
LONG Bunker( banker) Busters!
I believe "Banker Busters" is a new meme.
It's the helicopter quid to BenKevin's quo.
Think if I sent him my address he'd send me enough for a burger?
What's the address again?
By the time they make HFT illegal, the criminals would of bought out congress, O - Wait..... never-mind.
Used to walk buy this guys building everyday. He's got statues with bitches with wings and their heads cut off. Fucked up. Oh well.
Son of a son...
Son of a son...
Son of a son of an asshole.
overpaid? perhaps but prime Ocean front properties in Sunny Florida saw the market bottom in summer 2010 and in many locals prices have started to surpass the peak levels of 2005-2007. And it makes sense as the .01% have more money than ever and hard assets vs. fiat
What exactly do these people DO with all that space? Run from room to room shouting "Mine...mine...mine!"? It's pretty pathetic--especially when they obviously have plenty of money to burn. Why not at least pretend that you're secure about yourself, buy a modest house that your family can live in happily and comfortably, and then quietly enjoy your good fortune? Instead, these people almost invariably go out and desperately throw cash at gigantic palaces and estates. For what? Yes, yes, I know...because they can. Sorry--insecure trash with billions of dollars in the bank is still insecure trash...
"Why not at least pretend that you're secure about yourself, buy a modest house that your family can live in happily and comfortably, and then quietly enjoy your good fortune? "
Because they wouldn't be narcissistic sociopaths.
He didn't build that.
LOL, Palm Beach is not even the place to be anymore for the uber rich, Boca Raton is the New Palm Beach. Sucker.
Why on earth would anyone want to become a doctor, engineer, chemist, physicist, biologist, teacher, fireman, policeman, or anything that adds real value to other people’s lives when the really big money is clearly in capturing, controlling, manipulating, raping, pillaging and plundering the financial markets. Yes, that would be the same markets that we all invested our life savings in because we trusted them to be safe and fair. At least that’s what the people who are doing the raping, pillaging and plundering always told us.
bored out of your skull on a Sunday
why not take advantage of America's complete and total disregard for privacy
between the County Clerk and County Appraiser along with Google it is all there
e.g. in Palm Beach County the appraiser's site is here http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/papa/Asps/papagis/papagis.aspx
type in an address e.g. Blossom Way
click the address number and presto there's the satelite view of the property and in the sidebar on the left all sorts of info
and the map is interactive and clickable so if you zoom out and see a property you might be interested in just click on it
of course if the owner is hiding behind an LLC or cryptically named trust and you want more info just go to the Clerks site and search under land records http://www.mypalmbeachclerk.com/officialrecords/search.aspx
enter the exact name of the entity and up pops all sorts of interesting and useful information, which with google can lead anywhere
and if you go down the rabbit hole far enough (remember Palm Beach is Hamptons south) there is no telling what you find (this completely unrelated to the Griffin story) - does the name Seth Tobias ring any bells for you long time CNBS viewers? pre Zero Hedge
http://nymag.com/news/features/43914/
Look no further: Florida's unlimited homestead exemption in the event of bankruptcy.