Victoria Beckett

In den letzten Monaten hat sich der Immobilienmarkt in den Alpen seltsam verhalten. Kein Zweifel: Skihütten sind kein notwendiger Einkauf. Die Preise bleiben aber von der Lebenshaltungskostenkrise, geopolitischen Spannungen oder Turbulenzen am Markt unberührt. Tatsächlich sind diese Objekte sogar noch teurer geworden. Weltweit wurden die Preise von Spitzenimmobilien durch die steigenden Zinsen unter Druck gesetzt.

The art market has been delivering strong returns for several years now, shrugging off the economic woes of the pandemic, as auction houses and galleries alike embraced online sales. However, recent art fair figures suggested that the market might be cooling.1 Frieze New York generally saw sales prices below $1 million (£790,000) in May. Sotheby's2 and Christie's3 both reported recent sales that were either just meeting expectations or underwhelming.

"You don’t buy a yacht to get from A to B. If you want to get from A to B, you get in your car. You sail for the experience and the enjoyment,” says Mike Beckett, President of the Old Gaffers Association (OGA) sailing club. With this ethos in mind, about 20 yachts are circumnavigating Britain between April and August this year to celebrate the club’s 60th anniversary. An old gaffer is a traditional-style yacht with a four-sided mainsail that was originally developed to give fishing boats more power.