Buying brief
Tell us what you are looking for
Six questions, about two minutes. You receive a written reading of what is possible on your budget and in the market you name — including when the answer is that it is not.
This is not a request for a sales call. It is the document we start work from: what you are looking for, what for, over what horizon, and what you are not prepared to give up.
The brief
The first two questions take one click each. The email address comes last, once you know what you are asking for and who you are asking.
What happens after you send it
We reply within 24 working hours, in writing, with the name of the person handling it. There is no automated email sequence and no routine call the next day.
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The brief is read
A consultant in the market you named reads what you wrote and checks the framing: whether the total budget covers what you describe, whether the horizon fits the process, and whether there is a legal or tax point to settle first.
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A written reply
You receive a reply containing three things: what is possible in that range and that market, what is not and why, and what would have to change — budget, area or horizon — for what you are looking for to become possible.
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A conversation, if it is warranted
If the written reply warrants going further, we propose a twenty-minute call. If it does not, we say so in writing and the matter ends there, with no follow-up and no contact list.
Why the form is built this way
Three design decisions we would rather explain than hide. A form is also a document about the people who wrote it.
Budget is a range, not an open field
Asking for an exact figure from someone who has not decided forces a commitment in front of a stranger, and the usual response is to abandon the form. A range gives us what we need to answer usefully and asks nothing of you that you are not ready to give.
The email address comes at step four
It is the highest-friction field and it is of no use before we know what you are looking for. Asking for it first would make this page faster for us and less honest with you.
The longest field is the optional one
«What is essential and what is negotiable» is not an extra. It is the field that turns a list of filters into a search criterion, and it is where the reply stops being generic. It stays optional because not everyone wants to write, and it remains the field we read most closely.
What we do, and do not do, with what you write
A brief is treated as client information from the moment it arrives, before any mandate exists.
Read the privacy policy- The details are used only to answer your enquiry and prepare the search.
- They are not shared with developers, banks, credit intermediaries or third parties.
- They are not sold, transferred or added to any commercial list.
- You may ask for access, correction or deletion at any time, and the answer is given in writing.
- We do not confirm to third parties that you are speaking to us.
If you would rather not fill anything in yet
A brief is not the only route, and it is not the most comfortable one for everybody. There are three alternatives, and none of them requires a mandate.
Twenty minutes on the telephone
A call with a fixed length and a defined subject. If there is nothing useful to say, we say so in the first five minutes.
Book a 20-minute callIf the matter is selling
The brief is for buyers. An owner who wants to know what a property is worth before deciding whether to sell uses the valuation request.
Request a valuationIf you are still reading
Most people who buy with us read for months before writing. The daily note arrives every working day and asks for nothing in return.
See the daily newsletterBefore you write, if you want to know how we work
Three pages answer most of the questions that arrive alongside a brief.