Inside Denham Place, inspiration for the early James Bond films

House hunters nearly always have to make a compromise to suit their budget – the size of the garden, say, or those dated avocado bathroom suites, or the slightly inconvenient distance from the station. You might think that being a multi-millionaire would exonerate you from such stresses, making finding your dream home trouble-free.  

Not so, according to Mike Jatania, the British Asian cosmetics tycoon who reportedly sold personal care brand Lornamead to Li & Fung Ltd for $200 million a decade ago and who regularly tops charts of Britain’s richest Asian people.  

‘Back in 1999 and 2000, when my family and I were looking for a London home, the estate agents had taken us to various properties, but we hadn’t found anything suitable,’ says Jatania, who was born in Uganda and arrived in Britain as a young child in the late 1960s.