A 28-year-old has sold his birthday whisky collection for $57,000 to buy a house. (via CNBCMakeIt)
A 28-year-old has sold a collection of whisky given to him each year by his father as a birthday present, for £44,000 , in order to buy his first home.
His father, Pete Robson, started the tradition with Robson's older brother, carrying it on with him and his younger sister. He has spent around £5,000 on Robson's 28 bottles of whisky alone.birthday. However, after he missed a year and spent months trying to find the right bottle, he discovered that it had almost doubled in value and realized the investment opportunity.
Mark Littler, the whisky broker managing the sale, said of the hundreds of sales of Macallan 18 he had brokered, he had never seen such a complete set.Robson, a supervisor for food processing group ABP, plans to use the funds for a house deposit, and said that without this opportunity he probably wouldn't even be thinking about buying a home.
And while Robson also has some money in stocks and shares, he said the whisky collection had enabled him to diversify his investments.
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