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  <title><![CDATA[Willow Field Gate]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Willow Field Gate is a small residential estate agency based in Ludlow, Shropshire, specialising in private sales and retained buyer searches across the Welsh Marches.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The summer market in South Shropshire: what we are seeing]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[July has been quieter than June in terms of new instructions, but buyer activity has stayed strong. A few observations from the past six weeks, including one off-market sale that completed in under three weeks from first viewing.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why we photograph every property with a medium-format camera]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most estate agency photography is done with a wide-angle DSLR and a flash. It produces images that look fine on a portal thumbnail and fall apart on a large screen. We have used a Phase One medium-format system since 2019 and the difference is not subtle.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-18</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Selling a listed building: what the process actually involves]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Grade II listing affects more than what you can do to the exterior. A sale involving a listed building has specific legal and survey requirements that catch some buyers and vendors off guard. Here is what we tell clients at the outset.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-29</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How off-market property sales work in Shropshire]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Roughly four in ten properties that change hands through Willow Field Gate never appear on Rightmove or Zoopla. That is not unusual for a small independent agency with a long-standing network, but it does raise questions from buyers and vendors who are used to the portal model. Here is a plain account of how the off-market process actually works.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-02</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What a retained buyer search actually involves]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A retained buyer search is not a common service in mainstream estate agency, and the term gets used loosely. Some agents use it to describe a basic portal alert. What we offer is different: a proactive, network-driven search on behalf of a single buyer, with a written brief, regular updates, and a fee structure that aligns our interests with yours.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-12</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How we value rural property in Shropshire and Herefordshire]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Valuing a rural property is harder than valuing a terraced house in a town. The comparable evidence is thinner, the variables are more numerous, and the difference between a well-presented valuation and a speculative one is not always obvious to the vendor. Here is how we approach it.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-28</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Buying a listed building: what to check before you offer]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Listed buildings are some of the most interesting properties in the Welsh Marches, and some of the most complicated to buy. The complications are manageable if you know what to look for. Most of the expensive surprises we have seen come from buyers who did not ask the right questions before making an offer.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-19</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Preparing your home for sale: what actually makes a difference]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most advice about preparing a home for sale is either obvious or wrong. Declutter, they say. Paint everything white. Bake bread before viewings. Some of it is fine. Most of it misses the things that actually affect how quickly a property sells and what it sells for. Here is what we tell our vendors.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30</pubDate>
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