13 clearances have landed in Harrow's own postcodes — HA2 most often, then HA5 at Pinner and HA7 at Stanmore.
Interwar suburbia, and what that means
Harrow is Metroland: streets of 1930s semis built for people arriving on the Metropolitan line, with bay windows, side entries, garages at the end of the garden and lofts reached by a hatch rather than a stair.
That layout is good news and bad news. Good, because there is almost always somewhere to put the van and a path to the door that does not cross anybody else's property. Bad, because the loft and the detached garage are where forty years go, and a house that looks tidy downstairs can still run to three loads.
Pinner and Stanmore are larger and greener again, with more detached stock and longer drives. Harrow itself is denser towards the town centre, with more conversions and more flats.
What the work is
A great deal of it is probate: long-settled households, families who have moved away, and a solicitor or an executor arranging the clearance from elsewhere. We work from a key held by an agent or a neighbour and send photographs of every room when the property is empty.