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Writing this column has given me more pleasure than I can adequately express, but it’s time for me to say goodbye
Borough and Bermondsey brought new flavour to the afternoon – hip and happening
José Ignacio is the spot for my client, benefiting from solitude yet moments away from South America’s most understated glamour
Buyers’ attitudes – they either exhaust every option before being satisfied or go with their gut
The super-prime market in London is fuelled by enormous wealth and mind-boggling prices
Some effort ultimately brings rewards and instant gratification is just that – ephemeral and unsustainable
The client, an avid acquirer of property, has the natural suspicions that come with a £1bn fortune
A funny thing about running your own business is that people assume you have more time on your hands
A property can enhance a family’s life, help nourish it, though it is the people within it that really make life work
I’m content with my lot and quite happy to stick with my property dreams – they’re so much easier to live with
I imagine myself a successful screenwriter with a 1920s Spanish revival house overlooking the Pacific
A client’s desires are not straightforward. But one man’s idea of sexy is not always another’s
It’s interesting to see how people cope with compromise because inevitably we all have to – in property, in work, in love, in life
Very rarely is there a flat or house that I just fall for and as with an individual ‘the falling’ can be an irrational desire
The key is not to take offence unless you really need to draw a boundary because no one likes to be chastised
I realise that my client has a psychological barrier – a barrier that prevents her from buying anything
I confess to having been in talks with several ‘runners’ as I am on the quest for a number of unusual properties
This deluge of ceaseless communication by tweets, blogs and Facebook strikes me as strange
Serious work lies ahead, including keeping a keen eye on the property market’s reaction to the global events of August
It is better to put the client first rather than set targets or plan nefariously to undercut or side-swipe the opposition
Boundaries are not to be crossed, even though one might have the perfect partner in mind for a client
The area around Brompton Road has become a much less charming form of the Mediterranean promenade
Some of the clients I deal with live in a myopic state that seems exhausting and fruitless. That’s not La Señora
It’s certainly hard to argue that the super-prime market will waver. But there’s less certainty out of those ‘quartiers’
Ultimately, all that people want – however confident they are of themselves – is an affirmation of their choice
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