About · Marnstone

Marnstone began in 2009 with four warehouse floors in Oldgate and a conviction that a quarter with working trades in it would age better than one without. It did, and the practice grew outwards from there — to the river, up the hill, out to the valley and eventually along the coast.

We now cover six places and hold a deliberately short list. The constraint is not modesty; it is the only way to keep the promise that every advisor has walked through every house we are selling.

What we are not

We are not a network, we do not franchise, and we do not take holiday lets. We turn down more instructions than we accept, usually because the seller wants a number we cannot defend or a marketing approach we do not believe in.

The fictional part

This website is a demonstration. Marnstone does not exist; neither do the six places, the nine houses, the five advisors or the prices attached to them. Everything shown here — including all the photography — was produced specifically for this template.

Four rules we have not broken yet

Few, and known

We hold a small number of instructions at a time. Every advisor has been inside every house on our list, which is the only way the advice is worth anything.

Written down

Appraisals, briefs, inspection notes and progression updates are all written. A conversation is easy to misremember; a document is not.

The awkward parts first

Unadopted lanes, service charges, boreholes, acoustic separation. We would rather lose a sale in week one than lose it in week nine.

One name

The person who shows you the house is the person who negotiates it and the person who is there on completion day.

A small advisory, on purpose

What we are not

The fictional part

At a glance

Four rules we have not broken yet

Few, and known

Written down

The awkward parts first

One name

Five advisors

Marisol Renard

Teodor Halvik

Inês Carvalho

Anselm Brodt