Six houses. That is the whole plan.

Most collections just keep growing. A house is offered, it seems fine, on the list it goes. Six months later there are ninety of them and nobody has set foot in most.

We say yes to a house only when it is better than what we already have at that size, in that corner of the island. It is a high bar, deliberately. It also means we turn away houses that would have made us money — which is rather the point. A short list is the only kind worth trusting.

We walk through every house before it joins us, and again each season. Someone who lives here looks after it — the same person, not whoever the rota sends. And when you write, the reply comes from somebody who has stood in the room you are asking about.

A few things we will never do

No instant bookings. A week in somebody else’s home is not a thing to buy with one click, so every request gets a real conversation first.

No countdowns, no flash offers, no little notes about how many other people are looking right now. If a week is free, the calendar simply says so.