

Eleven houses on the headland. One of them is for sale.
Houses worth the wait
A small advisory representing a deliberately short list of architecturally considered homes.
Four houses we would live in ourselves
We take few instructions. These are the ones open for viewing this month.




We would rather sell nine houses well than ninety badly
Every property here has been walked through by the advisor who is selling it, photographed across a whole day, and measured rather than estimated. If a house has a problem, the description says so.
Photographed across a day
Every room has one hour when it is at its best, and they are not the same hour.
Measured, not estimated
Floor areas and room dimensions come from a survey, and are stated as maximums.
Told plainly
Unadopted lanes, borehole supply, service charges. The things that matter later.
Six places, properly known
We do not cover a country. We cover six places, and we can tell you what each one is like in February.

Cala Verdana
CoastalA short limestone headland of terraced gardens, pine and very deep water.

The city's river edge: nineteenth-century warehouses, new towers, and a mile of public quay.

Aldermont Hill
HillsideOlive terraces twenty minutes above the city, with the whole valley below.

Thornhollow Valley
CountryStone barns, beech woodland and a valley floor that holds the morning mist.

Oldgate
HistoricThe city's oldest working quarter: makers, print shops and converted industrial floors.

Saltmere Point
WatersideA reclaimed estuary wharf, now a boardwalk, a tidal basin and a stepped terrace of residences.
You will deal with one of five people
Not a call centre, not a rotating team. One advisor, from the first viewing to the day the meters are read.
Marisol Renard
Partner — Coastal
Fifteen years on one coastline, which is why she can tell you what the water does in February.
Teodor Halvik
Partner — City
Founded the city desk. Has read more service charge accounts than anyone should.
Anselm Brodt
Director — New Developments
Reads a specification the way other people read a contract, because it is one.
Notes on buying, building and living in these six places

Reading a house in one day
What a full-day viewing tells you that two short ones never will

The case for the courtyard plan
Why a house that faces inwards can feel larger than one that faces out

What a specification actually promises
Reading the back of the brochure before the front of it
An appraisal that tells you what is holding the price back
A written view on value, a fortnight of preparation, photography across a whole day, and a private release to our own list before anything goes public.