A stone-built farmhouse dating from the early 1800s, extended...
A Grade II listed townhouse on a quiet lane off the market square, built...
A former grain mill converted to residential use in 2009, retaining the...
Capped at 18 active instructions. No exceptions
Harriet personally handles every valuation, not a junior
Off-market properties make up roughly 40% of our annual volume
Private homes found with uncommon care
Get in TouchWe take on a limited number of active instructions at any one time. When that number is full, we close the list. It keeps the work honest.
A significant share of the properties we handle never appear on the portals. They move through our network of long-standing contacts, quietly and without fuss.
We act exclusively for buyers on retained search instructions. That means our advice is not coloured by a vendor's fee.
Today Willow Field Gate operates with a team of three. Harriet handles all valuations and buyer searches personally. Tom Ashby manages viewings and coordinates with solicitors. Priya Nair looks after photography, floor plans, and the written descriptions that go out under the Willow Field Gate name. The office is small by design. The client list is capped at eighteen active instructions. When that number is reached, new enquiries go on a waiting list, and we are honest about that from the first conversation.
We stopped adding to the list and started acting on it.Roughly four in ten properties that change hands through Willow Field Gate never appear on Rightmove or Zoopla. That is not unusual for a small independent agency with a long-standing network, but it does raise questions from buyers and vendors who are used to the portal model. Here is a plain account of how the off-market process actually works.
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Harriet Calloway spent eight years at Barratt & Lowe's Shrewsbury office before founding Willow Field Gate in October 2014. During her time there she handled over 140 residential transactions, with a particular focus on rural and semi-rural properties in the Welsh Marches. The decision to go independent came after a run of instructions where she felt the volume model was working against her clients. Outside the office she keeps a kitchen garden, reads more architectural history than is probably useful, and walks the Long Mynd most Sunday mornings.
