South China Morning Post, 26 Mar 2013
A Chinese mother bought a US$6.5 million apartment in Manhattan for her two-year-old daughter to live in while studying at Columbia University state-owned CCTV reported on Monday.
The woman completed the transaction at the beginning of last year, according to Kevin Brown, a real estate agent in New York who closed the deal for her.
He said the woman told him her daughter would be going to Columbia University, New York University or maybe Harvard in the future. “So I said how old is your daughter, and she said she was two. I was just shocked,” Brown said in an interview with CCTV. Full story