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Please see our thoughts on the market, life and other matters…

June 29, 2022

Walking the Dorset Coast (walk 1).

“The rolling Dorset drunkard made the rolling Dorset road” – this old saying is probably true but it must have...

June 23, 2022

The Crazy World of top end country Property!

“What’s going to happen to the residential property market?” – this is the question I’m most regularly asked at the...

March 3, 2022

Eco products for your home.

No matter your thoughts on climate change one point, I hope we can all agree with, is that humans use...

February 14, 2022

Best Pubs in Wiltshire

Once the school has been found and the journey to work established, the next question I am often asked is...

February 10, 2022

Home from Dubai…

I love travelling so discovering sleepy French villages, marvelling at Icelandic volcanos or driving off into the Australian outback is normally...

February 9, 2022

Best Walks in The Chilterns

With Spring around the corner and the weather improving it is the perfect time to dust off your wellies and...

February 7, 2022

The Winchester country and city market has never been stronger!

I started working in Winchester in 1997 for a wonderful business called James Harris. Hume Jones ran the Country House...

February 4, 2022

Why I took up bee keeping and the added benefits!

In March 2019 Covid19 became a real thing and we went into Lockdown 1. My wife and I get bad...

January 30, 2022

Thoughts from Richard in The Times, Bricks and Mortar 28.1.22

Richard Scrope wants to do everything he can to save the planet. He has planted 20 trees in two years...

January 15, 2022

Working for the RNLI

When I told a friend I’d been accepted as a volunteer for the RNLI, she looked at me with awe...

January 15, 2022

The 2022 property market could be very busy indeed.

There is little doubt about the strength of the property market in 2021. Unprecedented demand met a fractured supply, and...

January 9, 2022

My Journey to the Coast

I’ve honestly enjoyed each of my 25 house moves… well, apart from one hasty exit from a London rental after...

December 22, 2021

Who could have predicted the happenings of 2020!

It was all set up to be a fantastic year, the General Election had delivered a confidence boosting result and...

December 22, 2021

“The Keys to the Capital”

“We are hugely proud of James ‘Jimmy’ Macleod who has published his “first” book”. The Keys To The Capital is...

December 22, 2021

London awakes!

As always can be said of the London property market, a lot can change in a very short time. This...

December 9, 2021

Overcoming the challenges of moving from London to the Chilterns.

Even though both my wife and I grew up in The Northern Home Counties, when we decided to make the...

November 9, 2021

Why use a Buying Agent?

Having moved from selling to buying I thought it might be helpful to answer some of the question I am...