The Modern House is an estate agency that helps people live in more thoughtful and beautiful ways. We believe in design as a powerful force for good.Inspired by the principles of modernism, we represent design-led homes across the UK that pay attention to space, light, materials, nature and decoration.Esquire credits The Modern House with “rewriting the rulebook on estate agency” and GQ voted us “one of the best things in the world”.The Modern House is a Certified B Corporation, part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact.
Directors
Clem HobsonManaging Director
Aoife LeachCommercial Director
Judith AbelovszkyFinance and Operations Director
Appraisals Team
India AlexanderHead of Appraisals
Holly TitfordAppraisals Manager
Katherine BanksClient Operations Manager
Lucy DranePrincipal Appraisals Specialist
Marcus Gordon MRICSSenior Appraisals Specialist
Wilhemina MadeleySenior Appraisals Specialist
Louise Rutherford ARBSenior Appraisals Specialist
Rumer NeillAppraisals Specialist
Zoe AndersonAppraisals Specialist
Morgan PollardPhotography Coordinator
Thea RogersAppraisals Coordinator
Sophie SimsListings Sub-Editor
Prime Team
James KlonarisHead of Prime Appraisals
Corey HemingwayHead of Prime Sales
Charlie Arden-BrownPrime Sales Manager
Fergus O'BrienPrime Viewings Coordinator
Sales Team
Chloe BlissHead of Sales
Rae McCarthy-YardleySales Team Manager
Olivia GouldSales Team Manager
Song EngSenior Sales Advisor
Sarah HatcherSenior Sales Advisor
Zoe LowSenior Sales Advisor
Kate HawkswellSenior Sales Advisor
India SmithSenior Sales Advisor
Will BaringSales Advisor
Emma BarclaySales Advisor
Ollie KingSales Advisor
Hannah DowntonSales Advisor
Laura TrustyBuyer Operations Manager
Clementine HarveyViewings Coordinator
Georgia RichardsonViewings Host
Isadora GrahamViewings Host
Editorial, Marketing and Product
Drew HydeHead of Engineering
Rhiannon KingSalesforce Administrator
Rory ChadbourneProduct Manager
Operations
Nicolate TwebazeFinance Manager
Ella MasriOffice Manager
OUR VALUES
We believe in adding value
To you, to your home, to your experience. We do this through our service, insight, expertise, presentation and superior reach.
OUR VALUES
We believe in being human
We’re obsessive about the service we offer. Your home is likely your primary financial and emotional asset, and deserves only the most dedicated and empathetic individuals representing it. We exist to provide an alternative to the ‘shiny suit’ experience, seeing estate agency as being about relationship building, trust and empathy.
OUR VALUES
We believe in building a likeminded community of design lovers
Our audience isn’t location, age or profile specific. What unites our community, though, is an appreciation of the impact a home has on personal well-being and a willingness to invest in the value of design. Our network’s shared interests and collective appreciation means they will ‘get’ your house, even if your friends don’t.
OUR VALUES
We believe in better homes
By acting as a filter for the best homes on the market, we attract buyers who are flexible about location and instead place the quality of the home at the centre of their search. By turning down almost as much work as we take on, we keep the standard of our offering high so that buyers trust our ability to show them only what’s worth seeing. In turn, our Directory of design practices is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in making a better home, regardless of budget.
Our Founders
MattCo-Founder
AlbertCo-Founder
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What started as a niche business in 2005, when architectural journalists Albert Hill and Matt Gibberd set up an agency to sell mid-century architecture to the Wallpaper-reading crowd, is infiltrating the mainstream, and setting the benchmark for estate agents in the age of social media and property p*rn.
For the uninitiated, The Modern House is about as far removed from your KFHs and Bairstow Eves as it’s possible to get. It doesn’t have any premises, its imagery isThe World of Interiors-worthy and its listings read more like a lovingly-written feature than a shouty list of descriptors.
The Modern House website has boomed in 2020 as people flock to gaze lustfully at its properties, even if they have no intention of buying.
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Our Home
To accommodate our rapidly growing team, we moved our headquarters in 2018 to a former ecclesiastical building in Southwark, London, renovated to a design by TDO architecture and furnished with bespoke pieces by British designers Faye Toogood and Max Lamb. Flexibility is at the heart of the design, allowing us to engage with our community through talks and events, and uphold our company culture with film screenings, yoga classes and team lunches.
Thought Leadership
An authority on good design
Our name is inspired by F.R.S. Yorke's celebrated book 'The Modern House' (1934), which introduced Modern Movement architecture to a British audience. As the agency has developed, we've become recognised as experts on modern architecture and design. We have gone on to publish two of our own books on the subject, and our co-founder Matt Gibberd has written a third book on the five timeless design principles that the homes we sell tend to pay attention to.
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“Anyone who has a tendency to waste time daydreaming should steer well clear of The Modern House: the forward-looking estate agency masterminded by Messrs Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill” – Mr Porter
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Our Community
Our Journal is an award-winning online design and lifestyle magazine that showcases inspiring homes from influencers and tastemakers within our community.
