Hampshire: cathedral-city calm and Solent money.
Hampshire spreads its wealth across three distinct settings: the cathedral city of Winchester and its surrounding villages, the New Forest estates, and the sailing belt along the Solent from Hamble to Lymington. The money here is largely settled and outdoor — country houses, waterfront properties, and the yachting scene that gives the coast its calendar — with Southampton’s port and airport keeping the county connected.
So our Hampshire work is residential and vehicular in the main: protective surveys for the country and waterfront houses, secure driving across a rural county, and close protection woven around the sailing season and the private occasions that come with it. We plan for distance and for water — a Solent-side property is a different survey to an inland one, and both reward local knowledge.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of property the Solent produces: a waterfront house whose open aspect to the water was its pleasure and, unaddressed, its exposure.
Photo: The William Walker, Winchester, Hampshire by Peter Trimming · CC BY-SA 2.0
Local context — the Hampshire area
Sampled at Winchester, recorded crime is low — a prosperous, rural pattern. Most of our work here is preventative and quiet: the exposure is the open aspect and the seasonal routine, not any background wave of incidents.
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 Hampshire can move between them without a handover.