Southampton: a port city with the Solent’s money on its doorstep.

Southampton runs on water and movement — the cruise terminals and container port, the marinas at Ocean Village and Hythe, and the Solent sailing scene that gives the coast its calendar. The centre is commercial and busy, WestQuay and the university keeping it full; the wealth sits along the water and in the New Forest fringe and the Hamble-to-Lymington belt, in waterfront houses and yachting families with the airport and the port keeping them connected.

So our Southampton work pairs residential surveys for the waterfront and forest-edge houses — where an open aspect to the water is the appeal and the exposure both — with close protection and secure driving through a port city, and cover for the sailing season and the private occasions that come with it. Drivers who know the terminal and marina approaches keep an arrival or a departure controlled.