You can sense the satisfaction at Winkworth HQ when they realised they could coin “The Queen’s Park gambit”, riffing on the classic chess move to describe how home buyers play the Londonproperty market.
The phrase describes the canny sideways move from one area to a similar, cheaper one nearby “saving” upsizers up to half a million pounds as they trade up the ladder, according to Winkworth CEO Dominic Agace.