Notes onthe market

Quarterly figures, occasional arguments about buildings, and the guides we got tired of writing out by hand.

Concrete detail in raking light

Market report

18 June 2026

What a listed façade actually does to a guide price

Interior at evening with lamps on

Essay

2 May 2026

Against the open plan, thirty years too late

Timber frame on a site visit

Guide

11 April 2026

Buying an unbuilt commission: what transfers and what does not

Low sun across an interior

Neighbourhood

6 March 2026

The hour the architect designed for

Drawings laid out on a table under low light

Guide

19 February 2026

What the panel actually scores, line by line

Evening light across a glazed elevation

Market report

28 January 2026

The cost of a view, measured honestly

Board-formed concrete wall in raking light

Essay

9 December 2025

Concrete that was poured once

An empty room waiting for a viewing

Essay

14 November 2025

Why we refuse open days

A narrow entry opening into a large room

Guide

22 October 2025

The second owner problem

Sea fog holding on a headland

Neighbourhood

30 September 2025

What the fog does to a plan

A house glimpsed from a private approach

Guide

18 August 2025

Buying a house that was never advertised

A measured drawing and a calculator on a desk

Market report

7 July 2025

How we value a house nobody has sold before