One of Britain's most influential property developers, Harry Hyams (87), has died.
Hyams was born in 1928, in Hendon, London, and made most of his wealth by developing office space in London during the 60s and 70s.
He had built the 398ft Centre Point office development on Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, which is said to have changed the skyline of London.
Hyams, who was the son of a bookmaker, started off as an office boy in a real estate agency, at the age of 17. He had become a millionaire by his late twenties, due to the number of calculative real estate investments in London.
During the business' prime, Harry Hyams managed a multi-million property empire, focused on London, with only six employees.
Sir Stuart Lipton, also a property developer, addressed Hyams as “the first man to recognise the importance of skilled planning and development”.
