me or I'§j.CCSS1OI1, tne nave
enerally had a goo year,
elling more houses than they
id 5' “=0, but taking far
mg ‘ -lo so. Not all
our 2 : farms have sold
zluah, ' . .11, of course. Peter
ee, the senior partner of
trutt and Parker, sums it up
est when he says: “The ood
as been in reat deman ; the
ot so good as attracted very
ttle interest. The top of the
rarket has been buo ant; the
ottom in danger o sinking
'ithout trace.” For example,
Fthe 18 houses being offered
pr sale by their Ipswich office
. the summer at prices of
lO0,000 and over, 14 have
nce been sold or are firmly
ider offer. The situation
IS been the same almost
erywhere, except in Scot-
d, where the partner in
'I'%C of Strutt and Parker’s
in ur h office, Colin
npbe 1, admits that “large
seas, and estates did not sell

Y ' '\

As Ar ' , however, it

 ' " " " ygeneralise, for

3 large ..o’uses and estates

zotland did sell well this
*3; In much the same way,
[311 it lwould be true to say

at there were fewer auctions
'1 1101141] :. 1001 ,....1 ..___-.. 1

BOURNE PARK, NEAR CANTERBURY, KENT. This Grade I house
clients of Humberts, to house the art collection of the 8th Earl Fitz

 

was bought this year by trustee
william, who died in 1948