Sold · March
42 Compton Terrace, N1 — £2,310,000
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Canonbury
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Barnsbury
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Highbury Fields
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De Beauvoir
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Newington Green
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Stoke Newington
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Mildmay
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Clissold Park
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Tufnell Park
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Islington
Alwyne Road, N1 — nine sales on this terrace since 2016
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01 / Currently represented
All
For sale
Under offer
Sold
Forty-one properties across eight postcodes. Six of them here.
Elmore House
£2,450,000
Canonbury Square, N1
5 bed · 3 bath · 3,120 sq ft · Freehold
The Coach House
£1,180,000
Barnsbury, N1
3 bed · 2 bath · 1,640 sq ft · Freehold
Ashfield Villa
£3,100,000
Highbury Fields, N5
6 bed · 4 bath · 4,260 sq ft · Freehold
Flat 4, Wren Court
£745,000
De Beauvoir, N1
2 bed · 1 bath · 890 sq ft · Share of freehold
Marsden Studio
£595,000
Stoke Newington, N16
1 bed · 1 bath · 620 sq ft · Leasehold
Pelham Lodge
£2,900,000
Newington Green, N16
5 bed · 3 bath · 3,480 sq ft · Freehold
Register
The other thirty-five are not advertised.
Join the buyer register
02 / What we do
Three services. We will talk you out of two of them.
01
Private sales
No board, no portal, no listing. We write to the buyers on our register who have already told us what they are waiting for, and we arrange four viewings rather than forty.
27 of 41 current instructions · 1.1% + VAT
02
Open-market sales
Photography, floorplan, video and portal presence. Every viewing is run by the person who valued the house — never a Saturday assistant who has not been inside it.
31 days average to exchange · 1.4% + VAT
03
Acquisition
We act for you as the buyer. The useful part is not the searching, it is the two thirds of the market that is never advertised and the second opinion on the survey.
£64m acquired in 2025 · Fee on completion
03 / How a sale runs
Four stages, and one person through all of them.
One person holds all four.
01
Valuation
02
Preparation
03
Introduction
04
Exchange
Stage
01
We give you a number with the comparables written underneath it.
Two hours in the house, measured properly, then a written figure and the six sales it is based on. We will not inflate it to win the instruction and then ask you to reduce in week five.
Stage
02
We pay for the photography and recover it at completion.
Architectural photographer, measured floorplan, and where it earns its keep, a two-week styling brief. If the house does not sell, you owe us nothing for any of it.
Stage
03
Before anything is published, we write to the register.
Around nine hundred buyers, each with a note of what they actually want. Twenty-seven of our last forty-one sales ended at this stage, which is why the average is thirty-one days.
Stage
04
One person holds the chain, and calls you every Friday.
Solicitors, survey, chain, lender. You get the call whether or not there is news — the weeks with no news are the ones people find hardest, so those are the ones we call about.
04 / People
Three of us. You will meet the one who values your house.
Iris Kelleher
Founding partner · Valuations
Fifteen years in N1. Every valuation in the firm still goes past her.
Tomás Beier
Head of sales · N1, N5
Runs the register. Knows which nine hundred people want what.
Nadia Ferreira
Acquisition · Buying clients
Acts only for buyers. Reads surveys for a living and enjoys it.
“They told us the flat was worth eighty thousand less than the agent down the road said. They were right. It went in nineteen days.”
Helena Park
Sold in De Beauvoir, 2025
“We never saw the house advertised anywhere. Nadia rang on a Sunday because she remembered we wanted a garden studio.”
Owen Brandt
Bought in Highbury, 2024
“Four sales with Marchmont now. The Friday call is not a gimmick — it happens every week, news or not.”
Priya Raghavan
Landlord, N16
All twenty-eight pieces
What we notice, written down before we forget it.
Market notes
6 min
What a million pounds actually buys in N16 this spring
Eleven completed sales, laid out side by side, with the compromises named.
Opinion
4 min
The case against the open house
Thirty strangers in your hallway on a Saturday is a marketing tactic, not a sales one.
Neighbourhood
8 min
Nine streets in Barnsbury, ranked by afternoon light
We walked all of them at four o’clock in February. The results were not obvious.
Opinion
5 min
Why we stopped putting prices in the window
The card in the window sells the office, not the house. Ours came down in 2021 and nothing bad happened.
Market notes
7 min
The seven weeks between offer and exchange
Our average instruction to exchange is thirty-one days. Here is where every one of them goes, including the week that usually breaks.
06 / Questions
The ones people ask on the doorstep.
Anything not covered here, ring Iris. She would rather answer it now than in week six.
What do you charge?
Do you work outside North London?
What is the buyer register?
Who pays for the photography?
Can you value a flat you have not seen?
How long is the contract?
07 / Valuation