Andreas Panayiotou (born January 1966) is a British property developer,[1] the founder of Ability Group, and once the UK's largest private landlord, until he sold up in 2006/07 and moved into hotels.

[2] He was kicked out for punching his PE teacher, and went on to become the Essex under-16 amateur middleweight boxing champion.

[2] He started working for his father, before buying an Islington house, converting it into flats, and building one of the UK's largest buy-to-let empires, selling about 7,000 flats and houses in 2006–07, and moving into hotels.

Then the market started to understand residential; there was the buy-to-let phenomenon ... yields went from 25% to about 3% over the period.

[2] Panayiotou owns a £40-million Gulfstream G450 jet, a £12-million Mangusta 130 yacht, and two Cessna Citation jets, as well as a Range Rover, Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini LP700, Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible, and a Bugatti Veyron.