Property News · July 1, 2017

What makes Geneva’s Barilla mansion worth US$73 million?


After selling their shares in Barilla S.p.A., the pasta company, Riccardo Barilla’s parents moved in 1975 from Italy to Switzerland. They bought a house on about 10 acres of land in Vandœuvres, a wealthy suburb of Geneva, and stayed in it for the next 40 years.
In 2013, after his parents’ deaths, Barilla inherited a property that was virtually unchanged from when they’d bought it.
“There wasn’t electricity everywhere in the house, the heating was like a…

Source : South China Morning Post
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