Independent estate agent
I take on a small number of homes and searches at a time, so the advice you get is specific to your house, your street and the timing that actually suits you — never a script.
How I work
You will not be handed to a listings team after the first meeting. The person who values your home is the person who writes the description, stands in the hallway at viewings and calls you when an offer lands.
Most of my work begins long before a sale — a walk through the house, a straight answer about what it is worth today, and an honest view on whether this is the right year to move at all. Sometimes that conversation ends with a plan for next spring. That is a perfectly good outcome.
— Marlow Reid
Services
Whichever one you are closest to, the first step is the same conversation.
Preparation, photography and a considered launch, then viewings I run personally. You get a weekly written update and a direct line for everything in between — including the offers I would advise you to turn down.
Full sale management
For buyers who are tired of portal alerts. I learn what you actually want, watch the streets that fit, and knock on doors where nothing is listed. You see fewer houses and better ones.
Search & acquisition
An hour in your home with no obligation and no follow-up campaign. What it would sell for, what would lift that figure, and whether the timing works. Useful even if you are years from moving.
No obligation
Current homes
A short list, kept short on purpose. Ask about any of them and you will speak to the person who knows the house.
For sale
Old Kiln Lane
A four-bedroom terrace with the original floors intact and a long, south-facing garden. Sensibly extended at the back in a way that has aged well.
Guide £695,000 – £720,000
By appointment
Verity Fields
Single-storey and deceptively large, arranged around a central courtyard. Shown privately at the owners' request, in small windows during the week.
Guide on application
Coming soon
Ashcombe Rise
Two bedrooms, a workshop at the end of the garden and more light than the frontage suggests. Launching once the spring planting has come through.
Guide £430,000 – £450,000
Roughly a third of what I sell never reaches a portal. If nothing here fits, tell me what does — quietly marketed homes go to the people I already know are looking.
How it works
From first message to the day the sign goes up, this is the whole shape of it.
An hour at your kitchen table or a call, whichever is easier. What you own, what you want next, and what the market on your street is actually doing. Nothing is signed.
A short, practical list — what to fix, what to leave, what to move out of shot. Then photography booked for the light, and a description that reads like a house rather than an advert.
A deliberate launch, viewings I attend personally, and honest feedback within a day of each one. Offers come to you with my reasoning attached, not just a number.
Questions
The four things people most often want settled before they send a message.
A single percentage of the agreed sale price, payable on completion, covering everything — photography, preparation advice, viewings and the work between offer and keys. You will have the figure in writing before you decide anything, and there is no charge if the house does not sell.
It varies far more by house than by market. Preparation is typically two to three weeks, and I would rather spend them properly than launch early into a quiet week. After an offer is agreed, the legal process sets the pace — and I will tell you plainly when it slows.
Yes. Some owners prefer no board, no portal and no open viewings — for privacy, or because they are testing the water. In that case the house goes only to registered buyers whose brief it genuinely matches, and we review the approach together after a set period.
Because continuity is worth more than headcount on a single sale. One person holds the whole picture: the valuation reasoning, what each viewer said, and where the chain is fragile. The trade-off is that I can only take on a limited number of homes, which is why the list above is short.
Start a conversation
Selling, searching, or genuinely undecided — all three are worth a message. There is no obligation attached to any of them.