Large country houses not in use by their owners were traditionally mothballed. Not anymore, writes Eleanor Doughty in Country Life, with insights from Katherine Watters, our Partner and Southern Home Counties expert.
For those with multiple large country houses, deciding what to do with the one you weren’t occupying used to be simple: the dust sheets came out and you mothballed it until your return. But now, owners tempted by the handsome returns that short lets can yield are seeing their properties as business assets, writes Eleanor Doughty in Country Life.
‘In the times we’re in, people look at what they’ve got and think how can they make some extra income from it,’ comments Katherine Watters, our Partner and Southern Home Counties expert.
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