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A Norfolk heritage

DECEMBER 2020 saw the retirement, on his 60th birthday, of Louis de Soissons of Savills in Norwich, after a sparkling 34-year career selling some of Norfolk’s finest country houses. Described in a farewell tribute in the Eastern Daily Press as ‘the perfect gentleman of property’, Mr de Soissons had led the residential team of Savills in Norwich since 1993, having joined the firm six years earlier, when he and his wife, Anna, decided to leave London and return to their roots in East Anglia.

However, his links with the Norfolk country-house scene won’t be completely severed as he rides off into the sunset,

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