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F1 & Hospitality · 2 min read
Planning Corporate Hospitality at the Monaco Grand Prix
How to frame objectives, guest lists, viewing formats and timelines before you compare Monaco race-weekend options.
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F1 & Hospitality
Planning Corporate Hospitality at the Monaco Grand Prix
How to frame objectives, guest lists, viewing formats and timelines before you compare Monaco race-weekend options.
2 min read · 11 November 2026
Family Offices
What Family Offices Should Ask Before Booking Private Aviation
A practical checklist for principals’ offices and assistants arranging private flights on someone else’s behalf.
1 min read · 11 November 2026
Luxury Travel
Writing a Luxury Travel Brief That Gets Better Options
How to describe dates, preferences and constraints so a concierge team can source hotels, villas, yachts and transport with fewer back-and-forths.
1 min read · 11 November 2026
Private Aviation
How to Charter a Private Jet
From the first enquiry to the aircraft door—what actually happens when you book a private flight.
22 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Private Jet Safety Guide
How to verify a charter operator, aircraft and flight before you book.
16 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
How Much Does a Private Jet Cost?
The factors that move a private jet quote, and how to read one without surprises.
18 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Private Jet Charter Contract Guide
What to check before you sign and pay.
18 min read · Aviation guide
Luxury Travel
Private Jet to Monaco: A Complete Guide
Monaco has no airport. Here is how a private flight and the final transfer fit together.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Empty Leg Private Jets Explained
With a normal charter, the aircraft adapts to you. With an empty leg, you adapt to the aircraft.
12 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Private Jet Charter vs Jet Card vs Fractional Ownership
Three ways to access private aircraft. Three very different commitments.
18 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Private Jet vs First Class
The seat is only part of the comparison. The real difference is the journey around it.
16 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Private Jet Types Explained
The six aircraft classes, what separates them, and how to choose.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Best Private Jets for European Travel
Most European journeys need less aircraft than clients expect. Choose around the passengers, luggage and airports—not prestige.
14 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Best Private Jets for Long-Haul Travel
The best long-haul jet is the one that completes the mission with the right margin, cabin and airport access.
12 min read · Aviation guide
Luxury Travel
Private Jet Travel to the French Riviera
Airports, transfers and seasons for Nice, Cannes, Monaco and Saint-Tropez.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Luxury Travel
Best Private Jet Routes from London
London's most travelled private routes, and how to plan each.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Buy vs Charter a Private Jet
A framework for deciding between ownership, charter and the options in between.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
How to Buy a Private Jet
Start with the mission, not the aircraft. The acquisition process step by step.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
How to Sell a Private Jet
Preparation, positioning and a discreet process from listing to closing.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Family Offices
Corporate Private Jet Charter
How businesses plan roadshows, recurring routes and multi-city days.
4 min read · Aviation guide
F1 & Hospitality
Monaco Grand Prix Private Jet Guide
Grand Prix week is the Riviera's busiest. How to plan the flight and transfer.
4 min read · Aviation guide
Private Aviation
Private Jet Baggage Guide
How much luggage you can really take on a private jet: weight, volume, dimensions, payload and special items.
9 min read · Aviation guide
Yachts
How to Charter a Yacht
The complete charter journey, from first enquiry to the final APA reconciliation.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Much Does It Cost to Charter a Yacht?
The total cost of a crewed yacht charter: the weekly fee plus APA, VAT, delivery, extras and gratuity, and what drives each one.
18 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
What Is APA?
The definitive guide to the Advance Provisioning Allowance: how APA is set, spent, tracked and reconciled.
18 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How to Buy a Yacht
The complete acquisition journey, from the ownership brief and market search to offer, survey, sea trial, due diligence, closing, delivery and the first season.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Much Does a Yacht Cost?
What a yacht costs to buy, to own and to build — three different questions, explained separately with live Lund asking-price data.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
The Cost of Owning a Yacht
Crew, berthing, maintenance, refit reserve and the annual budget behind ownership.
13 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How to Sell a Yacht
A step-by-step guide to selling a yacht, from deciding to sell through pricing, mandate, preparation, marketing, offers, survey, closing and handover.
18 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
New Build Yacht Guide
The practical guide to commissioning a new yacht, from the owner's brief to delivery.
12 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Asking Price vs Sale Price
The asking price is public; the sale price usually is not. Yachts conventionally trade at a negotiated discount to asking, but the size of that discount varies so widely by segment, condition and seller motivation that no general percentage is reliable.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Best Time to Charter in the Mediterranean
Month by month, how the Mediterranean charter season actually behaves.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Buying a Yacht in Monaco
How a buyer uses Monaco as an acquisition hub, from search and private viewings to the Monaco Yacht Show, contract, survey, VAT, flag and closing.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Buying vs Chartering a Yacht
Charter if you use a yacht a few weeks a year, want a different yacht or cruising ground each time, and prefer a known cost. Buy if you want one yacht, your own crew and specification, continuity, and control of where she is and when.
9 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Custom vs Semi-Custom Yachts
A semi-custom yacht is built on an existing, proven platform with personalised interior and some layout choice. A fully custom yacht is designed from scratch. Semi-custom is faster, more predictable and usually less expensive; custom gives complete freedom.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Far in Advance Should You Book a Yacht Charter?
When to start looking for a yacht charter — and why the answer depends on your brief.
15 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Long Does It Take to Build a Yacht?
A new build normally takes years, not months: a design and contract phase, then construction, then commissioning and sea trials before delivery. Semi-custom yachts on existing platforms are quicker; fully custom projects at larger sizes take considerably longer.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Long Does It Take to Sell a Yacht?
A seller-side guide to yacht sale timing and time on market: the stages, what drives liquidity, repricing, seasons, closing and how Lund measures market age.
14 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Yacht?
A new build's cost is set by the yard, the build material and standard, volume rather than length alone, the degree of customisation and the level of interior specification — plus design, supervision, owner-supplied items and a contingency on top of the yard contract price.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How to Choose a Yacht Builder
Choose a yard by evidence: yachts it has actually delivered at your size and in your material, its record on schedule and quality, its financial standing and refund guarantees, its after-sales support, and how its existing owners speak about it.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Yacht Asking Prices Work
An asking price is a marketing position set by the seller on their broker's advice. It is not a valuation, not a fixed price, and not what the yacht will necessarily sell for — though it is the most visible and widely available market signal.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
How Yacht Price Reductions Work
A price reduction is a seller's correction towards where the market is actually responding. One decisive, evidenced adjustment usually works; a pattern of small reductions tends to tell buyers that more are coming.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
MYBA Charter Agreement
The definitive client guide to the MYBA Charter Agreement, in plain language.
18 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
MYBA Memorandum of Agreement
A practical guide to the MYBA Sales Agreement used in professional yacht sale and purchase transactions.
10 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Off-Market Yachts
What off-market really means, how discreet sourcing works and how opportunities are verified.
10 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Preparing a Yacht for Sale
Preparation means resolving the defects a survey will find, bringing documentation into order, presenting the yacht and her interior properly, and briefing the crew — done before the first viewing, not after the first offer.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Superyacht Operating Costs
The annual operating-cost model, line by line, with the capital reserve shown separately.
11 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
The Caribbean Charter Season
How the Caribbean winter season works, island by island and month by month.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
The Yacht Construction Process
A build runs through brief, concept and naval architecture, contract, structure, systems, interior fit-out, commissioning and sea trials, then certification and delivery — with owner-side supervision and class oversight throughout.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
What Affects Yacht Value?
Builder, age, condition and maintenance record, volume and layout, specification, refit history, flag and commercial status, and the depth of the market in that segment. Condition and documentation separate otherwise identical yachts more than anything else.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
What Is Included in a Yacht Charter?
What the base fee covers, what is paid through APA, what is quoted separately, and what is optional.
18 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Broker Commission — Who Pays, and When
The definitive guide to yacht broker commission: who pays, how it is agreed and shared, buyer fees, new-build and charter commission, disclosure and Lund's representation policy.
15 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Brokerage Explained
Who represents whom in a yacht sale or charter: central agents, buyer's brokers, co-brokerage, off-market yachts and commission.
12 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Charter Etiquette
How to be a great guest aboard a private yacht — relaxed, discreet and practical.
14 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Charter Tipping Guide
Crew gratuity explained: discretionary, how much to consider, the basis, timing, distribution and APA.
14 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Charter VAT Guide
The definitive educational guide to VAT and local taxes on professional yacht charter.
20 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Crew Costs
A deep dive into the crew side of yacht ownership: salaries, rotation, employer costs, crew numbers, safe manning and how to budget the first year.
14 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Financing Guide
How yacht lending works: who lends, what lenders assess, loan-to-value, mortgages, covenants, insurance, new-build finance and how finance fits a purchase.
16 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Insurance Guide
What yacht insurance covers, how policies are structured, what lenders require and how cover is arranged during a purchase — with the policy wording always in control.
16 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Management Costs
What professional yacht management does, what the fee pays for and how to compare proposals.
9 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Photography & Sales Presentation
Presentation is how a yacht is judged before anyone steps aboard: accurate photography of every space, a clear specification, honest video, and a document pack that answers the obvious questions without a phone call.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Price Per Metre Explained
Price per metre divides asking price by length overall. It is a quick comparison tool within a narrow group of genuinely similar yachts, and it is misleading across different builders, ages, materials and build standards.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Purchase Deposit & Escrow
A buyer guide to yacht purchase deposits, escrow and client accounts, contractual release, and payment security.
15 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Purchase Due Diligence
The buyer-side guide to verifying an existing yacht before you commit: ownership, title, registry, class, tax, records, inventory and closing.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Refit Guide
The practical guide to yacht refits, from yard periods to conversions.
12 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Registration & Flag Guide
What a yacht flag really means, what flag states regulate, private vs commercial registration, and how registration is handled during a purchase.
18 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Sea Trial Guide
How a pre-purchase yacht sea trial works: who attends, what is observed under way, limits, findings and next steps.
11 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Survey Guide
How a pre-purchase yacht survey works: scope, haul-out, specialists, class records, findings and post-survey negotiation.
16 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht Valuation Guide
A yacht is valued by comparison: recent asking and transaction evidence for similar builders, sizes, ages and specifications, adjusted for condition, refit history, flag and commercial status. There is no reliable formula and no universal depreciation rate.
2 min read · Yacht guide
Yachts
Yacht VAT, Customs Status & Temporary Admission Guide
What "VAT paid" really means for yacht owners and buyers: EU customs status, proof, importation, temporary admission — and the questions to take to qualified advisers.
18 min read · Yacht guide
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