Q1, 2024
Contents The Briefing 37
PROPERTY
3638 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Sotheby’s is shaking up the London super-prime real estate market
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40 HOME-FIELD ADVANTAGE
How eco-buyers are boosting the market for farming land
The Agenda
14 EDITOR’S LETTER
By Edwin Smith
16 READERS’ LETTERS
Our readers share their views
18 DIARY
With former European Commission president José Manuel Barroso
20 PHILANTHROPY
Lady Edwina Grosvenor on her efforts to reform the justice system
22 SHOT BEFORE DAWN
Photographs from the Spear’s Awards 2023, held at the Landmark London
24 THE HEDGEHOG
News from around the HNW universe, from property to whisky and spies
26 BOOKS
The Price Is Wrong by Brett Christophers
28 LIQUID LUNCH
Restaurateur Jeremy King describes his return to the London eating scene
30 MATTHEW GOODWIN
Populism is back, and elections around the West this year will underline it
31 ANNAMARIA KOERLING
The problems with private equity
33 ROBERT AMSTERDAM
The fog of war has thickened in Ukraine two years on from Russia’s invasion
35 MIKE ROTHSCHILD
The conspiracy theorists’ strange fixation with the Rothschild family
41 SILVER SERVICE
The hidden gem of London’s super-prime property industry
43 A DRIVING FORCE
Why golf courses remain key elements of super-prime resorts
45 SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER
Super-prime buyers in London are facing a shortage of supply
46 THE MAN WHO SHAPED
NEW YORK Meet veteran property developer Harry Macklowe
REPUTATION
50 THE VELVET GLOVE
Fearsome law firm Schillings is embracing its softer side
53 SPIN MACHINE
The changing face of modern PR
54 THE DARK SIDE OF
DUE DILIGENCE Some innocent HNWs are being wrongly classified as security risks
56 THE LO ROAD
The man who promoted himself as the ‘unknown billionaire’
