About
Why we
exist
The problem
Conventional estate agency has no vocabulary for authorship. A house drawn by a named architect, built to their specification and never altered, is described in exactly the same terms as the volume house next door: bedroom count, bathroom count, floor area. The thing that makes it worth owning does not appear anywhere in the listing.
That is not a marketing problem. It is a valuation problem, and it costs owners real money — because a buyer who cannot see what they are buying will not pay for it, and an agent who cannot describe it will advise the owner to alter it.
So every instruction goes to an architecture panel before we accept it. The panel meets fortnightly, scores authorship, condition and provenance separately, and publishes its criteria.
That refusal rate is the whole business model. Our list is only worth something to a buyer if everything on it is worth the journey, and the only way to guarantee that is to turn away work — including work we would like to have.
of instructions declined by the panel
What we
will not do
01
No open days
A house is shown to one party at a time, accompanied, at an hour that suits the building rather than the diary.
02
No sealed bids
We introduce people to a building and let the building do the work. Bidding theatre sells the process, not the house.
03
Never both sides
We are paid by one party to a transaction and only ever one. Where we act for a buyer the fee is a flat sum agreed in advance.
The record
Sixty-four architects. Eighteen houses. One panel, meeting fortnightly.
Houses currently represented
18
Instructions declined by the panel
71%
Architects sold since 2016
64
Median days from listing to offer
19
Halvard Meis
Studio Renna
Aoki + Vance
Brannon Wray
Petra Lindqvist
Okada Werk
Marlowe & Fen
Ida Sørensen
Castellan Studio
Ruth Amagi
Verrier Atelier
Nils Hoffmeier
Sabine Krøyer
Halloran Boyd
Miyara Studio
Ewan Tarrant
Brekke & Aal
Lorne Pashley
Hana Vestergaard
Duquesne Werk
