Snatched from boards
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost ... stcount=56

Greg Kavanagh has been around before
http://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/S ... ted-415820
http://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/S ... ted-400708

Is there any significance to that or am I missing something? Isn't that the very reason why builders have so many legal entities? So that they are ringfenced from each other.

He claims he possesses a natural ability to understand economic trends, which came to the fore when he was still in secondary school and began taking an interest in the stock exchange.

THIS is the 28-year-old property tycoon who claims he is poised to make massive profits from his €100m gamble on the resurging housing market.

Greg Kavanagh is minted, single and well-paced to become the successor to the Celtic Tiger kings and queens who splurged their fortunes on failed developments.

But the enigmatic young man – who still lives at home with his mother and goes to Mass every week – says he is determined to learn from the mistakes of the past and insists money does not complete him.

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Greg is confident in his business credentials, but appears reluctant to be the subject of public attention and is obviously wary of people delving too deep into his past.

He does not want to be seen to be courting the media, as he believes people who "brag and boast" do so to "gloss over something".

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The English aristocrats are understood to have told associates that they never want to be in the same room as Kavanagh again. Piers Beckwith, the scion of the family, more likely to be pictured at society events in Tatler magazine than in the pages of The Sunday Business Post, admitted that “it wasn’t a very amicable relationship”.
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Likewise, his relationship with Starwood has dissolved into nothing. The reasons behind the departure of so many backers remain in the realm of rumour, but one thing is clear: it hasn’t slowed his march too much....

Kavanagh is fond of telling people that “everyone who eats at my table gets rich”, which is certainly what he preaches to partners. Industry sources say that Kavanagh’s modus operandi is to blow other bids out of the water by offering above market rates for sites. In a rising market, you win every time on tactics like this. At the same time, his approach has earned him enemies as well as friends.
Two sources who have dealt with him described him as bright but unsophisticated financially – able to regurgitate what he reads in a prospectus or an industry report, but lacking in experience.
Questions remain over how effective his business model will be. Despite his profile and ambition, he has delivered relatively few complete housing units to date.

Anyone who describes themselves as "the Ronaldo of business" (I presume he doesn't mean the fat Ronaldo) and lists "making money" amongst their main interests, has serious issues

How do you think Jonny Ronan et al would describe themselves if they were being honest? Would love to read the rest of that article but if I subscribe to one more national or international newspaper I think there will be no money left for actual property buying.

He is the self-appointed ‘Cristiano Ronaldo of property development’, with a penchant for telling more established players just how much he’s going to be worth in the future, how many houses and Lamborghinis he will own – how he’ll out-earn and outspend everyone else, a billionaire in waiting.

Anyone who describes themselves as "the Ronaldo of business" (I presume he doesn't mean the fat Ronaldo) and lists "making money" amongst their main interests, has serious issues

Soon he had an account with a stockbroker and he was buying and selling shares like a 14-year-old Gordon Gecko.

http://www.independent.ie/business/comm ... 33838.html




lol, why didn't I do journalism, you just spout any old crap. I hear he has the libido of Ron Jeremy as well.