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Shaun Keenan & Josh Luckhurst

Rags-to-riches tale of Co Derry man now selling luxury villas in Dubai

A man has opened up about his real life rags-to-riches tale which has seen him go from working at a motor sales company in Co Derry to selling the most expensive villa in Dubai in the space of five years. Conor McKay, who turns 25 next week, has become a millionaire and is one of Dubai's leading luxury property brokers after being inspired by a real estate reality TV show.

Conor, who now works for Belleview Real Estate, broke the record for selling the most expensive villa in Dubai when a custom-built, 33,300-square-foot mega-mansion went for AED 280 million (£59.4m) earlier this month. The previous record from 2015 stood at AED 185m (£39.2m).

He has been named in the UAE top 10 agents by PropertyFinder and is also one of three agents in Dubai to be named PropertyFinder's number one agent in two successive years.

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