Seeing The World Millionaires Living In A Pandemic: Buy A Bunker Of IDR 740 Million To A Private Island

Photo illustration of a luxury property in Marbela, Spain (Instagram / @ quintessentiallyestates)

JAKARTA - The crisis period due to the COVID-19 pandemic requires people to stay at home. Some people have to struggle with boredom. Others may have more options for reducing saturation. The story of the millionaire in England can be an illustration.

With wealth, they faced the key situation with more pleasure and serenity. With their wealth, they can live like in a film: living in a palace, seclusion on a private island, to taking refuge in an underground bunker with super complete facilities.

Post-Prime Minister Boris Johnson instructed his people to stay at home during the pandemic, within hours, the demand for super luxury properties increased. "Within a few hours we were in full swing with requests," Quintessentially Estates CEO Penny Musgrove told the BBC.

The request, said Musgrove, came from the elite class, such as businessmen, celebrities, or directors who owned property in various parts of the world. Most of them don't care about paying a fortune for a luxurious property like a palace-like building on the Scottish highlands, one of the less densely populated places.

Then the demand that is no less is a private island. "The islands are very popular during the pandemic situation," said Musgrove. During the pandemic, remote islands were inhabited by the super rich who fled the virus.

Musgrove said, there was a super rich man who recently owned a house worth 35 million pounds, or around Rp. 635 billion in the elite area of London, Mayfair. Then, because he didn't want the corona virus in his place of residence, he bought a flat near where he lived. No wonder. Because, there are also very rich people who buy a full hotel to isolate themselves.

Stay in the bunker

Meanwhile, the demand for luxury property that was no less during the pandemic was bunkers. Bunker sales increased 400 percent during the coronavirus outbreak.

General Manager of the bunker manufacturing company, Rising S Company, Gary Lynch explained that clients who ordered bunkers were not only because they wanted to be protected from the corona virus alone. They are also worried about the aftereffects of the crisis: looting citizens and increasing crime.

"They will be safe and comfortable living in their bunker," Lynch said in a BBC video interview.

Lynch, in the video, describes what the bunker looks like and what the facilities are. The bunker, which is coated with protective armor and bulletproof doors, also has an air filter that can get rid of disease and nuclear dust.

In a bunker measuring six thousand square feet, for example. There are two kitchens, a luxurious main dining room. The food supply area is important because people generally stay there for a long time.

Therefore, the bunker has a special place to store frozen food supplies for a minimum of six months. Apart from that, there is also a main living room of six hundred square feet, a thousand meter greenhouse garden and other facilities such as a special shooting room as a place for hobbyists.

For the price, the bunker built by Rising S is priced at more than 50 thousand US dollars, equivalent to Rp745,402,500 today's exchange rate. For your information, the area of the bunker they had built was 13 thousand square feet.