Mark McAndrew
Times are changing in the estates world. ‘We’re having to be more inventive – and slightly cleverer,’ says Mark McAndrew,…
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Andrew Macpherson
Sporting estates specialist Andrew Macpherson has a reputation for making rare deals happen. Still, one client followed the CKD founder’s…
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Alex Lawson
During his 20-plus years in the rural property business, Alex Lawson has seen a growing interest in landed estates as…
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Tom Hudson
Once dubbed by an industry peer as ‘the most proactive buyer in Hampshire’, Tom Hudson knows a thing or two…
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Clive Hopkins
Knight Frank boasts more than a century in rural property – and country hand Clive Hopkins has seen more than…
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Ed Heaton
‘We’ve found that there was an acute lack of stock in the country market’, says Ed Heaton. That, he says,…
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Jonathan Harington
Director Jonathan Harington is a rare breed – a peer called him ‘a bastion of discretion’. Clients, too, are known…
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Philip Eddell
‘It is fun,’ says the genial Philip Eddell, who has a long and storied career in rural estate management. Formerly…
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Geoff Wilford
Self-confessed ‘property geek’ Geoff Wilford has been working in the prime central London market since 1999. He is increasingly focusing…
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Alex Christian
Alex Christian has been in the industry for 20 years (11 of them at Savills). He’s now a director in…
ByRoss Ward
Ross Ward’s company, a pioneer in property consultancy, is all about rock ’n’ roll. Pereds has helped the likes of…
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David Adams
A lot of people selling at the moment are circumstance-driven and I enjoy doing the utmost to help,’ says David…
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Alan Russell
‘Who else has got four children [out of six] working for them, and a daughter-in-law?’ says Alan Russell, who has…
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Shaun Drummond
Shaun Drummond has been at Harrods Estates for almost 20 years. Now its London residential sales director, he oversees four…
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Peter Wetherell
Peter Wetherell knows Mayfair like nobody else, as his Twitter handle @mayfairguru suggests. He has focused on the area for…
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Thomas Van Straubenzee & Rory Penn
Thomas Van Straubenzee (above), is the former partner and co-founder of VanHan, who moved to Knight Frank shortly before Spear’s…
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Jake Russell
While many boutique firms have been subsumed into larger estate agents, Russell Simpson, the family-owned firm started 39 years ago…
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Louise Hewlett
‘The stamp duty single-handedly brought the market to its knees,’ says the impressive Louise Hewlett. ‘As humans, we don’t change.…
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Jonathan Hewlett
When Spear’s caught up with Jonathan Hewlett, he was in confident mood: ‘Without sounding cocky, we’ve had a good 2017,…
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Gary Hersham
Gary Hersham is to taciturnity what Nijinsky was to dance: he is its complete embodiment. Talking with Spear’s, he does…
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