The Park and Southfields side

What this means for the move

• Mansion blocks are their own category. Generous rooms, handsome stairs, and a staircase turn that was designed before anybody owned a corner sofa. Many have no lift at all, and where there is one it is often too small for a mattress.

• The Grid terraces are consistent, which helps — but they are consistently narrow, and a van on a Grid street blocks it for everybody while it is there. Working promptly is a courtesy to the road, not only to you.

• For part of the year this area changes completely. During the Championships the roads around the park carry restrictions, temporary controls and a great deal more traffic, and some residents let their houses out over the same period. A removal booked without regard to that is a removal that goes wrong.

• A lot of the housing here is let rather than owned, which means tenancy dates, agent inventories and deposits are in play more often than elsewhere on the hill.

What we do about it

• Check the Championships period against your date at the enquiry stage rather than after you have booked

• Measure mansion block stairs and lifts properly, and plan an alternative for anything that will not go

• Work promptly on Grid streets and keep the road usable while we are on it

• Take condition photographs at both ends where a tenancy and a deposit are involved