An estate agency that still walks the whole house first

On the board

Services and flat fees

Every service is a fixed published price. There are no percentages, no tie-in periods and no charges at completion beyond what is written here.

• Full listing service

  $2,950

  Flat fee · about 8 weeks

  A measured walk through the whole house comes first, then the photography and the floor plan, and only then the listing written and placed. Every viewing is attended by the agent who did that walk, and the sale is carried through to completion for the figure printed above rather than a share of the price.

  Best for an owner selling one house and wanting the same person on it from the first walk to the last signature.

• Buyer representation

  $1,850

  Flat fee · until completion

  A search run against what was actually asked for rather than against what happens to be on the books, viewings booked and attended, and the condition of each house written up the same day. The offer is then negotiated by somebody who has stood in the room and seen what the photographs left out.

  Best for a buyer moving into Savannah from elsewhere, or anybody who cannot attend viewings in person.

• Photography and floor plan

  $420

  Flat fee · about 3 hours

  A half day in the house with a tripod, a level and a laser measure. Every room is photographed square to the wall from the doorway, the whole floor is measured, and the result is a scaled plan and a set of files that stay the owner's to use anywhere, including with another agency.

  Best for an owner letting privately, insuring a house, or deciding what to change before selling.

• Rental letting

  $950

  Flat fee · about 3 weeks

  A rent assessed against what has actually let nearby, the property advertised, applicants referenced properly, and a tenancy drawn up and signed. The keys are handed over against a dated inventory with photographs, which is the document that settles every argument at the end of a tenancy.

  Best for an owner letting a house for the first time, or one who has been managing a tenancy without a written inventory.

• Viewing accompaniment

  $95

  Flat fee · about 45 minutes

  One viewing attended by an agent who has already walked the house and read what there is to read about it. The questions get answered in the room, and what was said is written up and sent the same day. It is added to another service, or taken on its own.

  Best for a buyer who cannot get there, or an owner who would rather not show their own house.

• Valuation and market appraisal

  $180

  Flat fee · about 1 hour

  An hour in the house that is mostly about the fabric rather than the furniture. What has been changed, what has been left, where the damp shows and what the roof is doing are all looked at, and the result is a written figure with the comparable sales it rests on set out underneath it, given whether or not the house is ever listed through this office.

  Best before deciding anything: to sell, to let, to insure, or simply to know.

The story

A corner office that takes one instruction at a time

Every instruction here starts with a walk rather than a figure. An agent goes through the whole house first — roof space, cellar, the back of the boiler cupboard and the outside of every window, which are the four places a problem shows before it shows anywhere else — and asks what the house is like through the year rather than what it looked like on the morning the owner decided to sell.

Cornice & Slate Real Estate was set up to work at that pace. A house is given the length of attention the work needs rather than the length the diary would prefer, the agent who walks a house is the agent who shows it, and a valuation leaves the office with the comparable sales set out underneath it so the figure can be checked. The agency values, lists, lets and sells only; structural surveys, conveyancing and mortgage advice are named in a reply as belonging elsewhere.

1. 01

   The written fee is the invoiced fee

   Every service on the list carries the figure the invoice will carry. Nothing is a percentage of a sale price, so the fee is the same whether the house goes for more than expected or less.

2. 02

   The wrong service is refused, not sold

   If the chosen service will not do what was asked for, the agent says which one will. That happens in the reply to a message as readily as it happens in the hallway.

3. 03

   One instruction, one agent

   The agent who walks a house is the agent who shows it. Nobody is handed between desks to keep a diary moving, and no owner is asked to explain their own house twice.

Said afterwards

From the visitor book

Bettina N.

Full listing service

Friday 14 August 2026, 11:20 AM EDT

No. 01

“Every viewing was attended by the same person, and she knew which window had been replaced and which had not. That came out of the walk she did before the photographs, and it answered two buyers who had clearly been told nothing at all at the last three houses they saw. The fee was the one printed on the site and it did not move when the house went over the asking price.”

Dessa L.

Buyer representation

Saturday 13 June 2026, 9:40 AM EDT

No. 03

“The fee on the page was the fee on the invoice. Nothing moved when the price went up. I was buying from four states away and every house was written up the same day it was seen, including the two I was told not to bother with. The one I did offer on had a report that mentioned the damp at the back before the survey found it.”

Colin A.

Rental letting

Thursday 21 May 2026, 2:05 PM EDT

No. 04

“I had let the place for six years without a written inventory and had lost a deposit argument because of it. This time the keys went over against a dated set of photographs of every room, and the rent was set against four lettings on the same block rather than against what I hoped for. The referencing came back before the tenancy was offered, not after.”