Political leaders would hold press conferences to claim credit for advancing science and technology; management consultants would earn hefty fees; real-estate barons would reap fortunes; and as always happens, taxpayers would be left holding the bag.
That, then, soaked up more than half the galactic fee Real Madrid are scheduled to pay for Ronaldo.
It's so derogatory," Sheila Stone, vice president of the Julia B. Fee real estate agency, said with a shudder.
The Julia B. Fee real estate agency, the biggest agency in Rye, has had only two listings ever for homes there, both from 1997.
Ruth Chizzini, director of relocation for Julia B. Fee Real Estate in Rye, said that it's not only those relocating from overseas who receive large subsidies.
Of those, 63 have been built since 2000, according to George M. Stone, manager of the Julia B. Fee real estate agency in Rye.
Linda Darer, a sales agent for Julia B. Fee Real Estate in Rye, said houses that originally sold at BelleFair for $400,000 to $750,000, now go for $750,000 to $1.3 million.
His parents, Ann and Robert A. Brown, live in Scarsdale, N.Y., where his father is a financial planner and his mother is a sales agent at Julia B. Fee real estate.
Based on current property values, the marketing of New Urbanism concepts at BelleFair appears to have been successful, observed Charlene Tobin, a sales agent with Julia B. Fee Real Estate in Rye.
His departure would most likely require an enormous fee — Real Madrid reportedly paid about $100 million to acquire Rodríguez from Monaco in 2014 — but many big clubs have been linked to him in the endless churn of the European soccer rumor mill.
