{"id":12694,"date":"2011-01-22T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/one-hyde-park-how-the-candy-men-created-a-billionaires-ideal-home\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T18:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:59:46","slug":"one-hyde-park-how-the-candy-men-created-a-billionaires-ideal-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/one-hyde-park-how-the-candy-men-created-a-billionaires-ideal-home\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hyde Park: how the Candy men created a billionaire's ideal home"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDevelopment built for \u00a31bn amid global crisis, but 60% of apartments \u2013 some worth more than \u00a3100m \u2013 already soldOne Hyde Park, a Richard Rogers-designed group of four 13-storey residential blocks in Knightsbridge, London, is the glitziest, priciest piece of real estate in the world. It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door \u2013 an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and \u00fcberchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering. The squeezed middle could only gawp.Nick Candy, at 37 the elder of the two Candy brothers who have built One Hyde Park, is buoyed up when we meet on the day after the party. He wears the property developer’s uniform of sharp suit and expensive pink shirt, speaks slightly nasal estuary English and looks like a middleweight boxer who has just won his biggest fight. His girlfriend, the model, singer and former Neighbours star Holly Valance (pictured with Candy, right), briefly shimmers outside the door, a vision in white silk. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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