1. Selling the Dream

1. Selling the Dream

Update: 2025-11-30
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A big-talking showman and his charismatic wife: Who are Kenyon and Charlotte Clarke?

 

Maria Slade talks to a Du Val investor and friend who gave Kenyon his start in real estate and describes him as exceptional.

 

We hear how Kenyon rose phoenix-like from his first business collapse, and as the New Zealand housing market boomed yet again, vowed to create a billion-dollar empire.

 

The Clarkes were prolific self-promoters, even making a reality tv series about themselves.

 

But was it a veneer?

 

Brought to you by BusinessDesk with thanks to The Milford Foundation’s Brian Gaynor Business Journalism Initiative and MoneyHub.

 

Host, researcher, writer: Maria Slade 
Producer: Hamish Williams
Lead Sound Design: Mick Andrews
Additional Sound Design: Lara Healy
Executive Producers: Jane Yee and Duncan Bridgeman

 

https://businessdesk.co.nz/du-val

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1. Selling the Dream

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