Exeter: the gateway city to the South West’s quiet money.
Exeter is the hinge of the South West — a cathedral city with a university, an airport and the M5 running out of it toward the estuary and the coast. The money here is partly local and partly second-home: the waterside houses at Topsham and along the Exe, the Devon villages, and the coastal wealth further south toward the estuaries. It is a base as much as a destination, covering a region where the nearest alternative firm is often hours away.
So our Exeter work pairs residential surveys for the estuary and village houses — where isolation is the design and the vulnerability both — with close protection and secure driving across a large, rural county. We handle visiting principals through the airport and the coast, and we plan for distance: in Devon, response time is a function of who is already in the region, and we intend to be.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of brief the county produces: a survey of a waterside house whose privacy was its selling point and, unaddressed, would have been its weakness.
Photo: Cathedral of Exeter edit by Derivative work from Cathedral_of_exeter.jpg by Markus Koljonen (Dilaudid) Original photograph by Torsten Schneider on 13. Nov 2005. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Local context — the Exeter area
Recorded crime here is low and the robbery figure barely registers — this is a cathedral city and a rural county, not a high-incident centre. Most of our work reflects that: prevention, discretion and covering the distances that make Devon what it is.
Crime figures: data.police.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Location point: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby
We cover these from the same team and the same vehicles, so a detail that starts in Exeter can move between them without a handover.