The opening block of the second thousand stands on the estates address, immediately ahead of this one in population order. Frontier Dwellings carries the block that follows it, two hundred cities whose owners read their guides here and ask their questions here.

Each guide on this address takes its city apart in the same order: the likely cost of a marketed sale there, the pace at which houses are moving there at present, the papers that state expects from a seller, and a worked example built on the median price recorded for that city. The sequence stays steady so readers can compare places; the evidence inside it is gathered city by city and belongs to no other guide.

Guides reach this address in hundreds, following population order from rank 1,201 onward. Ahead of publication, every page in an incoming batch is set against each guide the programme has released on any of its ten addresses, sentence by sentence, and a page echoing an earlier one goes back for rewriting until the echo is gone.

Behind these guides sits a buying desk active in the districts builders keep coming back to. An owner selling through this address agrees terms face to face with Frontier Dwellings, hands over the house in the state it is found, and settles on a completion date seven to twenty one days out, or further ahead where the household timetable calls for breathing space. The address is never advertised, no procession of viewers crosses the threshold, and no agency slice is carved out of the sum agreed.

Whatever a guide leaves open can be put to the team itself, by phone on 401-219-4207 or by email at [email protected].