Jess Simpson
‘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.
Property Advisers 2019
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Mark McAndrew
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‘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.
Nigel Bishop
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Recoco’s chairman and managing director has been operating in the South West for 45 years. ‘There aren’t many good houses and places and people that I haven’t come across in that time,’ he says. Nigel Bishop’s approachability and knowledge of the market have brought a steady stream of buyers to his office since its inception in 1999. ‘A client once said, “You really do know every house here, don’t you,”’ he says, laughing. After a successful 2018 that saw the firm’s turnover increase by 35 per cent, Bishop, also a Devon Life columnist, is bullish about the country market. ‘My advice to people at the moment is: don’t sit on the fence and wait,’ he says. ‘I think life will pass you by.’