Rural locations – for life or just for lockdown?

ESCAPE to the country, that mustard cord cliché much loved by rural agents, is running wild as a sales pitch in the teeth of COVID-19. Town mouse dirty; country mouse squeaky clean. The hamster wheel of the London commute will surely have the cage left open when this is all over, as people reset their working lives with or without the ongoing constraints of social distancing. Lockdown rules may change according to the path and plans of the virus, but you sense mindsets may have pivoted permanently.

“While the head says the market will fall, there is an expectation from some country-house