Hardback: 'Max' is London's most exclusive property agent and this is his diary.
Over the course of a year, Max charts the fabulous highs and bank-breaking lows of his business, where houses in the super-prime bracket can start at £30 million and clients are rarely easy to please.
From sipping green juices with an Oscar winner to finding a dream home for the world's trickiest billionaire, and House & Garden-featured locales to Palladian dwellings worth £4,000 a square foot, Max and his team negotiate the UK's biggest property deals during the day and their own romantic dramas at night.
Highly Desirable (2023) is the ultimate insider's account of the personalities and machinations that rule a world we almost never get a true glimpse of. Holding nothing back, Max labours mightily to balance his professional life with his love life, and to reconcile his company's payroll with the demands of an over-the-top clientele.
Highly Desirable is a showcase of the good, the bad and the bizarre of the real-estate market for the super-rich. The author has had to obfuscate some details to protect the identities of those portrayed in the book although he has tried to capture the essence of their characters and the spirit of the business.
About the author: The Secret Agent has run his own business dealing in the super-prime London market for twenty years. For five years, he wrote the hugely popular weekly 'Secret Agent' column in the Financial Times, and now does so in Bloomberg. He has an MA and MFA in Creative Writing and lives in London.
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