Collonge-Bellerive –
Trafigura continues to animate the luxury real estate market
The director general of the firm offered an exceptional villa on the shores of Lake Geneva and comes to expand the list of luxury real estate purchases by executives from the petroleum group.
The trafigura boss offered a villa by the lake.
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- The boss of Trafigura acquires a luxury villa in Collonge-Bellerive for 24.5 million.
- Trade employees feed the High -end Geneva real estate market.
- Trafigura shareholders share two billion dividends in 2024.
A new acquisition of Geneva luxury good is added to the list of properties held by executives from the Trafigura trading group. As we can read in our colleagues of “Temps»it is the turn of the big boss of the Helvetic-Singapourian oil group, Richard Holtum, to offer a villa in the affluent town of Collonge-Bellerive. The price: 24.5 million francs.
While he already had a villa in this town, he now became the owner of a house one kilometer away. This former British army captain will once again benefit from access to the lake. Its house, located in a park of 2,649 square meters, is sheltered, behind a hedge 2 meters high.
According to the official registers, Richard Holtum bought the villa from Alexa Aponte, financial director of the World Maritime Transport Company MSC. The latter and her husband had become the owners in 2010, paying for this the sum of 15 million francs. The couple will now take up residence in the town of Colagny, where they have acquired land for 35 million francs.
Purchases follow one another
Transactions published by the “official opinion sheet” (FAO) indicate that employees of companies active in the raw material are an important engine of the real estate market. Although cases are not limited to traders of the Trafigura company, the executives of this group have however multiplied purchases which easily exceed 5 million, in the Geneva region.
The acquisition of a villa at 50 million, in 2022, on the banks of pregny-chambesy, by the British Mike Wainwright, number two of the group, had opened the ball. Since then, purchases of luxurious goods by employees of the oil giant are linked: remains of a value of 50 millions to Colognny, Villa to 10 millions in the commune of Vanduens or even exceptional residence in Collonge-Bellerive, obtained for 40 millions.
Two billion dividends in 2024
This raw material trading group, not listed on the stock market, is held by nearly 1,400 of its employees. For the year 2024, the dividends redistributed to the latter reached $ 2 billion. Although this amount is lower than for the year 2023, where the figure was multiplied by three (6 billion), it however suggests that the list of goods could still lie down.
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