Spear’s Review

Paddy Dring, global head of prime sales and joint head of Knight Frank’s global private office, sees the private office as ‘the axis of wealth within Knight Frank’ and ‘a vehicle with which to deliver a far better service to our ultra-high-net-worth clients and their professional advisers’.

Operating from a London hub and with teams in New York, Dubai, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne, dedicated private office personnel draw upon the firm’s vast database and access to global property markets to look after residential and commercial buyers and sellers.

‘Effectively, what we do is connect the dots for our clients, whether they’re selling and we’re making sure we’re accessing the widest possible market for their property, or whether we’re helping them to acquire and manage their portfolio,’ Dring says. ‘We’re able to bring in all the relevant parts of Knight Frank to give them that one-stop-shop service.’