Fall Fall Fall
08.11.2021This weekend the clocks go back marking the end of British Summer time and as Autumn turns to Winter thoughts turn to hearth and home and hibernation. An Englishman’s home may be his castle; or his ...
Rampton Baseley acquires Palace Gate Lettings
13.10.2021Rampton Baseley, market-leading estate agents in South West London has acquired Palace Gate Lettings, a four-office operation that has been at the forefront of the lettings market in the same area sin...
Back To Life
08.09.2021Back to life, back to reality, back to the here and now…so sang Caron Wheeler as Soul II Soul bounced across the UK airwaves in the Summer of ’89….and bounced, and bounced ad infinitum, indeed a...
Summer Loving Happens So Fast
09.08.2021The skies may be grey and we may be dodging showers but the Wandsworth lettings market has been hot hot hot. It would appear that despite the move outside the M25 for some city dwellers, others sti...
Midsummer Madness
18.06.2021Not your typical Midsummer Druid, and perhaps not your typical Midsummer Market… So, it is probably time to pick up, and then quickly discard, the druidical theme first alighted upon in the dark,...
Where have all the doer-uppers gone?
05.05.2021I’m not talking about a short supply of places that have scope for development or to use the estate agents’ vernacular, properties “in need of cosmetic improvement”. I’m talking about the pe...
Mayday! Mayday! May Day Market Mayhem!
30.04.2021The RB Morris Dancing Ensemble, Dunny-On-The-Wold May Day 2009, Best in Show. “I’ll try anything once except Morris Dancing and incest…” So said the conductor, impresario and legen...
‘ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE…’
21.04.2021'ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE...' So sang Eric Idle’s Barrabas to Graham Chapman’s Messiah, Brian as they dangled helplessly on their crucifixes. Did Barrabas know about the resur...
Surf’s Up!
25.02.2021Forgive me dear reader, but I thought that a little revisitation of recent history would be in order as we set our sights on the Spring Market… When the first lockdown ended last year, we saw a m...
“Where to Guv?”
27.01.2021
You don’t just get into a taxi and say drive. And you don’t just go to work and work. You have to have a destination, a goal a mission…even more so when you run th...
A Christmas Carol
30.11.2020So, as we head towards the turn of a truly unusual year and we peer through the glass darkly at the wreckage of 2020, our thoughts must surely turn to the Druids? To the Druids? Yes, to the Druids,...
Agents can continue to operate during lockdown
10.11.2020It has been confirmed that property viewings and home moves in England can still take place during the second lockdown, which begins on 5th November and will continue for at least four weeks. Under...