Independent media for the global private client world
Wealth Office is a long-form interview series with the founders, families and private capital holders reshaping the world. Filmed in London's great rooms. Published across Western and Chinese platforms.
The guest's chairEvery Wealth Office conversation is filmed on location in London. The chair is the only seat a guest is offered.
The Wealth Office audience this week
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Checked 12 Oct 2026. Updated every Monday.
What we are building
Wealth Office is building the independent media brand for the families and principals who hold private capital, and for the advisers, institutions and creators who serve them. Long-form conversations filmed in London's great rooms, published in six languages across Western and Chinese platforms, and organised into the ideas that shape how wealth is held, passed on and put to work.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record. New essays follow every new episode.
News
Briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and more. All news
Series architecture
Both series are filmed to the same production standard, in the same rooms, by the same team.
Editorial · Never sponsoredOne-on-one conversations exclusively with private capital-holding principals, authors and academics. The focus is their perspective, and how private capital is building the new world across business, technology, philanthropy and culture.
Exchange · Sometimes sponsoredTwo globally recognised leaders explore one subject where power, risk and long-term consequence intersect. Issue-led dialogue that stress-tests an idea or proposition.
Wealth Office X is where paid collaboration lives. It is always editorially led, never an advertisement in interview form.
The recurring questions
Ranked by how often each theme recurs across the episode library. Each theme has its own page that grows with every new episode.
In the chair
Every guest has a profile page drawing together their episodes, clips and the ideas they put on the record.
Behind the camera
The hosts, producers and strategists who make Wealth Office, in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Full biographies
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Hosts
Based in London, Michael is a close adviser to some of the world's most ambitious private capital holders, with particular depth across Asia's major business families and family offices. His work sits at the intersection of media, reputation and the relationships shaping this era of private wealth. He is Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, which produces Wealth Office.
About the seriesBased in Mumbai. Former South Asia Bureau Chief for the Daily Telegraph and host of The Diplomat's Beyond the Indus podcast, with over a decade advising UHNWIs and family offices across India and South Asia.
Based in Hong Kong. Moves between Western and Greater China circles in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with long-standing relationships across Asia's family office and private client world.
Published in long, mid and short form
One filmed session becomes a long-form episode, mid-length clips and short-form cuts in English and Mandarin.
Collaboration partners
Wealth Office X places a firm's expertise inside a trusted, independent private client channel, with long-form authority, multi-platform distribution and content built for how AI now recommends people and firms.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays on private capital, family wealth and the forces reshaping the private client world, drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record.
Episodes
Long-form episodes from both series, with an overview, key ideas and verified quotes for each.
Adviser to internationally mobile ultra high net worth families on ultra-prime property
Biography
Irina Gamagina is a London-based property adviser who works with internationally mobile ultra high net worth families on the purchase and sale of ultra-prime homes. Her work focuses on prime central London, with a particular emphasis on family houses, and she also advises clients on property in Dubai.
Gamagina is the director of First London Property Ltd, a company she has led since its incorporation in 2014, according to records at Companies House. Through her own practice she describes herself as a super-prime real estate specialist in London and Dubai, with a particular focus on family homes in Notting Hill and Holland Park. Her work also covers neighbouring prime districts including Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge and Mayfair.
She has also worked with UK Sotheby's International Realty in London, where she has been listed as a sales director on a consultancy basis. Her experience at the top of the London market includes the sale of an apartment at One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge in 2015, a development that has been associated with some of the highest residential prices in the capital.
A large part of Gamagina's work involves families rather than individual buyers. She works with family offices and with younger families who have recently come into significant wealth, often guiding them through decisions about where to live in London. Her advice takes account of schooling, the ages of the children and the lifestyle a family wants, and she has published a guide to nurseries in prime London areas, with a particular look at Fulham and Hammersmith, for parents relocating to the city.
Her clients rarely hold a single residence. Many maintain homes in three or four countries, and her advice therefore reaches beyond London. She has travelled extensively in Switzerland and follows demand in other international centres that appeal to wealthy families.
In 2025 the business publication CEO Monthly named her Super-Prime Realtor of the Year for the United Kingdom.
Irina Gamagina appeared on Wealth Office X in the episode "The Agents Selling $300m Homes In London", published in August 2026, alongside the agent Gary Hersham and the host Michael Macfarlane. The discussion explored how ultra-prime property is traded when money is no longer the main constraint. Gamagina explained that wealthy clients often hold homes in several countries, and argued that prime central London will always be limited in supply because high-rise building is restricted, which she sees as giving buyers a measure of price security. She recalled buyers at One Hyde Park who arrived through another agent while holding her own brochure, illustrating how few secrets survive in a market built on relationships and discretion. She also described purchases as decisions taken by the family as a whole, shaped by schools, space and lifestyle, and observed that a younger generation of buyers increasingly prefers new, practical homes to historic houses. Looking beyond London, she pointed to Zurich, Barcelona and Miami as cities attracting the attention of internationally mobile families.
Gary Hersham and Irina Gamagina explain how ultra-prime property really trades, why London still draws capital and what wealthy families want from a home.
News
Weekly briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital, drawn from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and other leading titles, with context for families and their advisers.
About
Wealth Office is an independent media platform built for the private client world, launched in September 2025 and produced in London.
What Wealth Office is
Wealth Office explores the structural forces reshaping the private client world: the rise of private capital, the globalisation of family wealth, the shift of ambition and innovation toward Asia, the psychology of intergenerational stewardship, and the responsibility that comes with significant capital.
The series speaks with the principals themselves: founders, inheritors and long-term holders of capital, together with the authors and academics who study them. It does not cover market commentary or portfolio management. It asks how private wealth is used, governed and passed on, and what it is building.
Wealth Office is hosted by Michael Macfarlane and produced by a dedicated team in London and Hong Kong. Full biographies follow below.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, business-owning families, family offices, next-generation wealth holders, founders, and the lawyers, trustees and advisers who serve them.
Michael Macfarlane, Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, is the principal host. Joe Wallen in Mumbai and Stephanie Chen in Hong Kong join as hosts.
The Wealth Office series is never sponsored. Wealth Office X episodes may involve a paid collaboration partner and are always editorially led.
On YouTube at @wealthofficeofficial, with clips on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Substack, RedNote and Bilibili (as 财富办公室), and audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Hosts and team
A London-based team with deep relationships across Asia's family offices, and fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Wealth Office XWhere paid collaboration lives. Always editorially led.
Collaboration partners
Firms that serve the private client world collaborate with Wealth Office to own a theme: credible, independent, long-form video in front of the audience that matters, in the format AI-driven search now rewards.
The full collaboration brief, packages and audience data. Approved partners receive a one-time sign-in code by email.
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