The colonnade at Villa Verdana running the length of its pool, with the sea beyond

Eleven houses on the headland. One of them is for sale.

Houses worth the wait

A small advisory representing a deliberately short list of architecturally considered homes.

Currently representing

Four houses we would live in ourselves

We take few instructions. These are the ones open for viewing this month.

All properties
The colonnade at Villa Verdana running the length of the pool, with the sea beyond

Villa Verdana

€4,950,000

Cala Verdana · Villa

  • 5 beds
  • 5 baths
  • 642 m²
Olive Court on its terrace above the water, under a terracotta roof

Olive Court

€2,780,000

Aldermont Hill · House

  • 4 beds
  • 3 baths
  • 412 m²
The difference

We would rather sell nine houses well than ninety badly

Every property here has been walked through by the advisor who is selling it, photographed across a whole day, and measured rather than estimated. If a house has a problem, the description says so.

  • Photographed across a day

    Every room has one hour when it is at its best, and they are not the same hour.

  • Measured, not estimated

    Floor areas and room dimensions come from a survey, and are stated as maximums.

  • Told plainly

    Unadopted lanes, borehole supply, service charges. The things that matter later.

Where we work

Six places, properly known

We do not cover a country. We cover six places, and we can tell you what each one is like in February.

All locations
The Cala Verdana headland from the air, a house and its terrace above open water

A short limestone headland of terraced gardens, pine and very deep water.

Rivergate Quarter seen from a timber-decked terrace above it

The city's river edge: nineteenth-century warehouses, new towers, and a mile of public quay.

Aldermont Hill: houses set among olive terraces above the bay

Olive terraces twenty minutes above the city, with the bay open below them.

Thornhollow Valley: a house set back across its lawn at the edge of the woodland

Woodland shoulders, working paddocks and a valley floor that holds the morning mist.

A brick warehouse elevation with steel-framed windows in the Oldgate streets

Oldgate

Historic

The city's oldest working quarter: makers, print shops and converted industrial floors.

Saltmere Point: the terrace outside a residence, planting kept close to the stone

A reclaimed estuary wharf, now a public boardwalk, a tidal basin and four terraces of garden residences behind them.

The people

You will deal with one of five people

Not a call centre, not a rotating team. One advisor, from the first viewing to the day the meters are read.

Meet the advisors

Marisol Renard

Partner — Coastal

Fifteen years on one coastline, which is why she can tell you what the water does in February.

Teodor Halvik

Partner — City

Founded the city desk. Has read more service charge accounts than anyone should.

Inês Carvalho

Director — Country

Converted two barns of her own before she sold anyone else's.

Anselm Brodt

Director — New Developments

Reads a specification the way other people read a contract, because it is one.

Market insights

Notes on buying, building and living in these six places

All insights
Thinking of selling

An appraisal that tells you what is holding the price back

A written view on value, a fortnight of preparation, photography across a whole day, and a private release to our own list before anything goes public.

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