Real estate has always been a business full of powerful personalities. But can one person -create - or recreate - an entire luxury property market? Looking at the cases of Marbella, Belgravia, Bel Air and Monaco, it would seem so.

Marbella and Prince Alfonso zu Hohenlohe - or, to be more precise, His Serene Highness Alfonso Maximiliano Victorio Eugenio Alexandro Maria Pablo de la Santísima Trinidad y todos los Santos zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg -