Property Advisers 2019

‘We are one of very few firms who cover both London and the country, and cover it well,’ says Ed Heaton, co-founder and managing director of Heaton & Partners. With one office in Berkshire and another in Knightsbridge, Heaton explains: ‘Our cars almost become a mobile property shop. We’ll be bombing up and down the country, on the phone the whole time.’

Crispin Holborow focuses on providing a versatile service at the very top end of the country market: ‘I cross over between country houses and estates, which no one else does.’

Once dubbed by an industry peer as ‘the most proactive buyer in Hampshire’, Tom Hudson isn’t seeing business slowing in the lead-up to Brexit.

‘It’s been a slightly turbulent period over recent months and arguably over the last couple of years,’ says Alex Lawson, who heads up the national farms and estates team at Savills.