With their elite One Hyde Park apartments, the world’s most expensive when launched a decade ago, developer Candy & Candy rewrote the definition of luxury living in London. The brothers took luxury to a new level and the magic dust they sprinkled trickled down the market. Builders big and small latched onto the luxury label, creating new sub categories such as “bespoke luxury” and “premium luxury” – even “affordable luxury” – for buyers with different budgets and different ta

A recent survey by the property consultant Knight Frank revealed that London has the most so-called ‘prime’ homes of any city in the world, with more than 68,000 properties valued at £2 million-plus. Meanwhile, crime figures in the UK continue to rise. There were 299,868 reported burglaries in 2020, with robberies at 68,095 and vehicle crimes at 371,278. There has also been a huge increase in cyber attacks in the past year, with a 300 per cent year-on-year rise in ransomware