Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Gary Hersham has been selling houses to the very rich for decades. At first, £1m was a big deal. Now he sells for £50m, £100m, even £200m. What does it take to stay on top in this cut-throat business? By Sophie Elmhirst. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:00.7	Super Prime Mover, Britain's most successful estate agent, by Sophie Almerst,
1:06.6	read by Andrew McGregor and produced by Hattie Moire.
1:09.6	This article contains some strong language.
1:13.8	Ring Ring, Gary Hirsham's phone was going as usual.
1:17.6	The Super Prime London estate agent blew through the May Fair office of his company
1:22.0	Beecher Mistates, scattering employees behind him. As he climbed into the passenger seat of
1:27.9	the company car of Volkswagen Golf rather than his personal BMW, I asked where we were going.
1:34.0	I don't know, he said. He found a postcode and announced it to the driver.
1:39.2	Ring Ring, Hirsham's mobile has the high-pitched jangle of an old-fashioned telephone at
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