A DECADE ago, hedge fund manager Chris Rokos bought two tired hotels in the fashionable Notting Hill neighbourhood here. His ambition was to turn them into one huge house with a subterranean pool, a gym and a garage with a car lift.
Today, the hotels are in disarray on a jumbled building site. A large, cream-coloured construction fence and a white plastic cover encircle the properties, revealing from the outside big Victorian houses with scaffolding protruding from the top, a patch of brickwork at the rear and an unfinished staircase inside.
In the last year, Mr Rokos has moved on. He jettisoned his plans for a dream house and sold the properties more than a year ago for £17.25 million (S$30 million)....
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