Property Advisers 2019

‘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.

‘Never has writing such a large cheque given me so much pleasure,’ a client testimonial reads, praising the skills with which Andrew Macpherson and his team at CKD completed a transaction.

‘This has got nothing to do with Brexit – this is about stamp duty,’ says Mark McAndrew, cutting through the hype and the headlines. Strutt & Parker’s Mayfair-based senior director for national estates tells Spear’s the property market is feeling the ‘hard hit’ of George Osborne’s 2014 tax reforms.

Jonathan Harington’s experience is unrivalled: he has been a buying agent since 1986 and single-handedly created the purchasing arms of Lane Fox (now Strutt & Parker) and Knight Frank.