Inside ex-Celtic and Scotland hero's property empire as Premier League ace spends £1.3millon buying six flats in one day
The former Celtic ace — who has a buy-to-let business — scored the plush pads in Glasgow with fiancée Georgie Bell.
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Records reveal they snapped up flats worth £275,000, £220,000, two at £215,000, and also £175,000 and £160,000 flats on April 28.
The couple's Twenty Two Investment Properties Ltd now has a portfolio of more than a dozen homes.
Christie, 30, from Inverness, currently stars for English Premier League side Bournemouth, where he was the club's player of the season despite a recurring groin injury.
A source said: 'Ryan's work rate is quite incredible. He was player of the season, has undergone surgery and it also looks like he is due to get married.
'But he still found time to splash a fortune on half-a-dozen homes.'
Five of his new acquisitions are at the Glasgow Harbour development on the banks of the River Clyde.
The other lies near the Ovo Hydro venue in the city's Finnieston.
On Instagram this month, Georgie, 30, posted photos with the caption: 'The summer I get married.'
We told last year how the couple bought a £900,000 flat in Edinburgh's 19th century Moray Estate.
We also revealed they teed up a £580,000 penthouse in St Andrews.
The pad is just yards from Tiger Woods' and Justin Timberlake's planned new sports bar.
Almost half a million pounds has been teed up for the themed venue at the home of golf.
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