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When Christos Lazari was 16 years old, he left his family in their small Cyprus village and moved to London with £ 20 in his pocket.
“I felt that the grass was always greener somewhere else, and I was too young to think twice,” he recalled during an interview. The buildings were certainly more valuable. Lazari, whose investment firm now owns about 2.64 million square feet of real estate, mostly office rentals, in London is worth $2 billion, enough for him to debut among 290 newcomers among the World’s Billionaires this year.
The journey to riches had a less-than-glamorous start. After he arrived in London in the early 1960s, Lazari washed pots and pans in restaurants until he could save enough money to enroll in a London Fashion Design course. He then set up a fashion label under the name “Drendie Girl.” It was a hit and made it into the windows of retailers across London’s High Street.
Read full story: Rags To Riches: Cyprus Emigrant Builds A Fortune In London Real Estate
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