An estate agent who quit the UK three years ago because he wanted to live free from Covid restrictions has created a £24 million property empire on a paradise island dubbed the ‘new Maldives.’
Richard Ashby was earning £200,000 a year selling exclusive apartments in Westminster and Mayfair to rich investors when his world crashed three years ago at the start of the pandemic.
All of his lucrative deals stalled and the 41 year old said he hated being isolated on his own during lockdown in his riverside flat in Chelsea.
