Two partners sell the houses: they value them, write them and stand in the hall at every viewing. The other four make the catalogue possible — the registrar, the photographer, the editor and completions. Nobody here is a trainee holding a key.
The partners
They take twelve instructions between them, a year
Reads every registration, checks the funds, and decides which of the five private particulars goes to which buyer. Posts them herself, on Tuesdays and Fridays.
One house a day, shot in the hour the rooms are worth seeing, which is why some of our appointments start at six in the morning. No drone unless the land is the point.
Sets every particular, keeps the hundred and twenty words to a hundred and twenty, and puts the catalogue and the half-year report through the press twice a season.