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Philip Eastwood heads the London bureau of the Buying Solution, Knight Frank’s ultra-exclusive independent buying consultancy. ‘Because the number of clients we have is small, we can spend time and effort doing research and coming up with the information,’ explains Eastwood. He highlights a case last year where he saved a client ‘effectively £1 million’ because of a floorplan error from the agent. ‘We can introduce them to solicitors, architects, planners, builders and make sure that we’re holding their hand through [each] step,’ he says. ‘As I said to one client, “If I was an Englishman buying in Istanbul, I’d be scalped. I wouldn’t know one end of Istanbul from the other.”’