The desperate shortage of domestic staff is causing bidding wars among super rich households
Our writer lost her housekeeper for an offer five times the going rate and a gifted compound in the Algarve - and she s not alone
26 June 2021 • 6:08am
One top agency with 35,000 candidates on its books could not find one single housekeeper recently
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It was not unusual - before the pandemic - for the wealthy to move between multiple homes on the basis of a weather report. As all their homes were staffed, stocked and on standby; it was only a matter of their pilot confirming a departure time.