In the Cannes superyacht-off, size isn’t everything

Forget the film festival: the real showdownø on the Côte d’Azur is between Abramovich’s Eclipse and the Barclay Brothers’ Lady Beatrice

Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’

An academic spent six years studying the lavish boats of multimillionaires. Her conclusion: showing off the owners’ wealth and status matters more than travel

Property tycoons David and Simon Reuben top Sunday Times rich list

Lewis Hamilton and Sacha Baron-Cohen among new entrants while a number of Britain’s billionaires saw their fortunes fall

Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world

As Frieze art fair opens in New York, our power primer traces the artists and dealers, celebrity collectors and oligarchs who make the art world go round

What is it like to live on Britain’s most expensive street?

London’s Kensington Palace Gardens is the most expensive address in the UK. Its vast mansions are a symbol of the growing gulf between ordinary people and the super-rich. Our reporter tries to meet the locals

Stop rich overseas investors from buying up UK homes, report urges

Rightwing thinktank proposes curbs on non-EU residents to open up more of housing market to Britons