SAVILLS
SAVILLS COUNTRY HOUSES
The Mount, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 7PH Guide price £12,500,000
Finding the Perfect Property in the Countryside Savills Country Houses For over 160 years, Savills has been helping people thrive through places and spaces. Savills’ team of highly experienced country house specialists covers the length and breadth of the UK, from the South to Scotland. With each team member having a regional countryside specialism plus direct access to Savills London and International networks, including the well-established Private Office, the department is able to provide a unique 360-degree service to clients. Our agents have considerable local knowledge and a granular understanding of the environment of each property, from school choices to planning policies and everything in between.
With an office network containing over 130 national offices and a further 600 global offices, we can market properties to a vast network of qualified buyers based both in the UK and overseas. Head of Savills Country Department, Phillippa DalbyWelsh, has nearly 20 years’ experience in prime property. She originally worked in central London before expanding to the country markets following her own move out of the Capital with her young family. This journey is one experienced by many country house buyers and, as such, Phillippa has a detailed understanding of the key motivators for embarking on a move, for example: good schools,
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more space or lifestyle choices or often all three - as well as the common challenges when it comes to timing and logistics. One of the key catalysts that drives housing demand out of London is the desire to buy a larger family home in an area with good schooling, and making the move often occurs in anticipation of a child starting school. In the case of boarding schools, the move can be a permanent one within a couple hours’ drive of the school, or a second home, which makes it easier for parents to spend time with their children on the weekends. For some, a cluster of high performing independent schools will determine where they will look to buy, whilst others will
