Gimme Shelter
26.02.2024
Gimme Shelter
I’ve been off for a month, and so whilst I was calling round checking in...
An Inconvenient Truth
11.04.2023No, despite my impeccable woke credentials, I am not going to lecture you on climate change. We’re going to talk about truth, albeit at times inconvenient, and lies. Because even though I said th...
Tricks and treats
28.10.2022Are spooked buyers opting out of the sales market and finding the rental market just as tricky? “The trees are about to show us just how lovely it can be to let things go”… …well lucky a...
A Dog Day Afternoon
10.08.2022Dog Day Afternoon, one of the great films of the 70s, starring the wonderful Pacino and Cazale playing Sonny and Sal, a pair of dysfunctional ne’er-do-wells who botch a bank robbery on a hot summer'...
Attention all landlords: Let’s Talk About Lets!
07.07.2022We spend a lot of time discussing the housing market in these missives, and by that, I mean the sales market. And I guess that’s understandable for, as a nation dedicated to the notion of homeown...
Wandsworth Property Market – chicken or egg?
06.06.2022“Half of all £1m+ UK house sales are in London…with Wandsworth leading the pack at 11%. (Ken and Chel 2nd at 9%).” So said a City A.M. headline the other day. ...
+++STOP PRESS+++ Brief Market Update
10.02.2022At this time of year, we talk to lots of new people dipping their toes into the new market. This New Year there’s a common theme – “I don’t want to go on the market as there’s nothing to ...
Trust In Me
02.02.2022“Trust in me, just in me…” so sang the Serpentine Seducer of the Junglebook. And so do oh-so many tedious estate agents of various shades (including me obvs). Anyway, I recently read the f...
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...