Help is at hand to keep track of possessions

Owning more than one home stocked with classy stuff - couture clothing, expensive artworks, vintage jewellery - might sound like a dream. But for people who jet between homes, travel a lot or have sizeable collections, keeping track of what is where can be a burden.

Which is why there is a wide range of services and apps designed to make the lives of multiple-home dwellers easier. From companies that offer to keep and maintain those Hermes Birkin bags and made-to-measure Savile Row suits, to apps that allow art collectors to carry their entire inventory in their pockets, it has never been easier, safer or more efficient to have more than one home.

For a company such as Garde Robe, which started in New York 12 years ago as a clothing storage enterprise to help New Yorkers with limited closet space, expanding to work with jet-setting homeowners worldwide was an obvious course.

"As we evolved, we heard of people with multiple residences who could not keep track of what they had, and ended up buying duplicates," says Doug Greenberg, vice-president of Garde Robe. "Our other clients treat us like a luggage-free valet service, the hub for their wardrobes. Everyone uses it differently."

Garde Robe, which has branches in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orange county, San Diego, Florida and Tokyo, is preparing to open in London and is scouting partnership deals in Hong Kong.

The service has a simple set-up. Clients need to meet a 50-garment minimum, which are stocked, alongside 10 pairs of shoes and a large box for accessories, in one of the company's international storage facilities, which, according to Greenberg, have been outfitted to museum-quality standards.