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...In 2015, FT Alphaville tried to make sense of One Hyde Park, a high-rise housing scheme in London’s Knightsbridge....
...“The Candy brothers [the developers of One Hyde Park] wanted to make boring old property part of the luxury goods market,” Pryor explains. This worked even better than they could have hoped....
...Apartments in the brothers’ flagship development, One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, are among the UK capital’s most expensive....
...The last time I interviewed property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy together was over a game of Monopoly at One Hyde Park, their then newly built luxury apartments in Knightsbridge, London....
...Candy declined to comment on his interest....
...He started his career at Foxtons in 2002, on a salary of £22,000, before leaving to work for One Hyde Park developers the Candy brothers....
...At Christian Candy’s 80 Holland Park scheme, where apartments start at £2.25mn, the pool and spa are complemented by a top-of-the-range gym designed by the former triathlete and Olympic coach Tim Weeks....
...Has Candy read the room? Candy’s new development is subtler, and the pricing is more sober than his previous outing at One Hyde Park. Two-bedroom flats start at £2.6m in 80 Holland Park....
...Holland Park life The fraternal duo of Candy & Candy defined London’s early 21st-century property boom, and their development One Hyde Park set a benchmark for prime property prices around the world....
...Mr Candy, along with his brother Christian, is best known for developing One Hyde Park, one of London’s best-known luxury housing complexes, which has drawn criticism over the high cost of its flats....
...That followed news of a possible takeover bid from Nicholas Candy, the colourful London property developer best known for the ultra-prime One Hyde Park development....
...It would have been a spectacular comeback from a damaging High Court legal wrangle by one half of the duo behind One Hyde Park....
...Nicholas and Christian Candy, the developers behind the development One Hyde Park, opened in 2011 and once the most expensive residential development in the world, portrayed a flashy lifestyle that was key...
...The Candy brothers’ One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, serviced by the adjacent Mandarin Oriental hotel and completed in 2009, broke house-price records and made headlines with its shameless opulence....
...Nick Candy, one of the block’s developers, says there is “increasing demand from wealthy investors and families to own one of the best addresses in the capital”....
...The Candy brothers, best known for their luxury property development at One Hyde Park, had been accused of “permanent and consistent dishonesty” by Mr Holyoake’s barrister, Roger Stewart QC....
...The pair are best known for their luxury property development One Hyde Park....
...The Knightsbridge was followed in 2011 by One Hyde Park, a Candy brothers development which launched at a headline-grabbing £6,000 per sq ft....
...“The world of prime residential is not what it was in [the Candys’] heyday, the days of One Hyde Park,” said a property consultant who asked not to be named....
...“Who else will buy at One Hyde Park?” quipped Natasha Semyonova Bateman, whose firm, Axton UK, helps Russians resettle in Britain....
...The Candys, who are best known for their luxury property development scheme One Hyde Park, vehemently deny all claims made against them by Mr Holyoake, which include allegations of conspiracy, duress, extortion...
...The Candy brothers have been in the media eye as developers of ultra-luxury properties including London’s One Hyde Park, where one flat was sold to a Ukrainian billionaire for a record £136m....
...Mr Candy, 44, and his brother Christian, 42, are best known for their luxury London development One Hyde Park....
...Mr Candy told the court that he gave his brother two high-end properties, including a penthouse flat in One Hyde Park and a mansion in Chelsea, as well as £10m in cash....
...The billionaire property entrepreneur best known for the landmark London development One Hyde Park gave evidence in a high-profile High Court trial on Friday....
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