Cambridge: college quiet, with serious new money at the edges.

Cambridge reads as a quiet college city and behaves like a fast-growing one. The Backs and the college courts sit at the centre; around them the science parks and the biomedical campus have drawn a wave of founders, investors and visiting executives whose profiles do not match the town’s gentle surface. The wealth spreads into the villages — Grantchester, Trumpington, the Shelfords — and Stansted is a short run south for the private-aviation traffic.

So our Cambridge work pairs residential surveys for the village and riverside houses with discreet close protection for visiting principals and campus events, handled in a register that suits the place — present, unhurried, never a spectacle. Drivers know that the city’s cycle-first streets and its bollarded centre reward local knowledge, and that the obvious route in is rarely the workable one.