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Credit Suisse banker buys £2.4m Holland Park house to help ease approval for Belgravia super-flat

Just imagine being so rich you can afford to buy three flats in Belgravia to knock into one big home, and knowing that the council might object on grounds of reducing the housing stock, you solve the problem by buying another super-expensive house to divide into four flats, thus more than restoring the balance of property stock in the borough.   
City banker Garrett Curran plans to knock three flats in Belgravia into one super-flat. Images: Jeremy Selwyn
Ruth Bloomfield17 February 2016

This shrewd move has been made by a Cambridge law graduate-turned-banker, Credit Suisse chief Garrett Curran, 43, who has bought three flats in Pont Street, and is so determined to amalgamate them into a super-apartment that he has spent £2.4 million on a Holland Park house he is planning to carve up.

ONE MAN AND A CLEVER PLAN: THE BELGRAVIA SUPER-FLAT AND A £2.4 MILLION HOLLAND PARK TOWNHOUSE...

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