The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chose tiny North Island in the Indian Ocean for their honeymoon in 2011. The ripple effect of that visit has been a blessing for property owners in the Seychelles. At the Eden Bleu marina on Mahe, one of the three main islands in the archipelago, some owners have doubled […]

I remember my first visit to Montenegro in 2006 as a mixture of awe at the landscape and horror at the concrete tangle of Herceg Novi, the border town with Croatia. There were no direct flights at that time so you arrived in Dubrovnik and crawled along the coastline on a terrible road drinking in […]

The north-east corner of Sardinia was almost unknown until the 1960s when the Aga Khan came here and began to develop luxury hotels. Now almost everyone associates Sardinia with the Costa Smeralda, Porto Cervo, super yachts and celebrities. But there’s another side to the Gallura region. Indeed much of it remains wild and uncultivated and […]

Greek gates are like fingerprints – no two appear to be similar

(Get the conservation officers to bat for you)

Where to invest post referendum

THE booming art market has had a curious side effect on property – nearly all new residential developments in London now declare that they part of a new ‘cultural hub’. We have seen it in Nine Elms, Battersea, White City, Shoreditch, Bow and beyond. Burlington Gate, the new Native Land development on the doorstep of […]

Charles I: King and Collector It is strange to reflect that King Charles I was executed just 15 minutes walk from Burlington House where a monumental show of works collected by the monarch has just opened. The scaffold was erected in front of the Banqueting House of the Palace of Whitehall, the ceilings of which […]

Adventures in the Shamwari Safari Park, Port Elizabeth

“Dubai has become a destination, most buyers are looking to stay long term and the flippers have gone,” says Jason Hayes, managing director of Luxury Property (luxuryproperty.com) which specialises in the area. Hayes is agent for the boutique firm Xtreme Vision which has to date finished just two residential projects here: Le Reve and Volante […]