01 — On the register
Four houses we are
handling this month
Every instruction carries a reference and the date it was entered. Nothing is listed twice and nothing sits here after it sells.
New instruction HV/0413Entered 14 Feb 12 Cavendish Terrace Lansdown, Bath BA1 £1,650,000 5 bed · 3 bath · 3,410 sq ft 
By private treaty HV/0402Entered 3 Feb Wraxall Court Wraxall, Somerset BA2 £3,400,000 9 bed · 6 bath · 8,120 sq ft 
HV/0387Entered 21 Jan The Ivy House Bathwick Hill, Bath BA2 £1,275,000 4 bed · 2 bath · 2,640 sq ft 
HV/0421Entered 27 Feb Combe Lodge Monkton Combe, BA2 £1,150,000 4 bed · 3 bath · 2,900 sq ft02 — The practice
Three of us, and a
deliberately short list
Bath has more agents than it has good houses. We took the other approach and kept the list short enough to remember.
Halloway & Vane has sold Bath stone since 2004. We take on around forty houses a year, which is roughly a tenth of what a branch office three doors down will handle, and it is the reason we can tell you which rooms hold the afternoon light and which do not.
We do not photograph a house until it is ready to be seen, we do not quote a price we cannot defend against the last four comparable sales, and we do not send someone who has never been inside to conduct the viewing.
If you are considering a sale, the first conversation costs nothing and usually happens at your kitchen table. Book a valuation.
We walk the house
Two hours, no camera. We measure, we open every cupboard, and we ask what you would fix if you were staying.
We set one price
Built from four comparable sales inside twelve months, written down, and explained line by line. We do not open high to win the instruction.
We photograph in the right light
Which sometimes means waiting three weeks for a south-facing morning. The house only gets one first impression.
We conduct every viewing
In person, by a partner who has been inside. You get the feedback the same evening, unedited.
03 — Where we work
The city, and the
valleys behind it
Two very different markets, ten minutes apart. Full area notes and current price ranges are on the practice page.
