house agent

This was the last house on the house agent's list, and her coachman is stupid about finding his way in strange places."

The local house agent could tell me nothing about Charlington Hall, and referred me to a well known firm in Pall Mall.

They were by sheer preoccupation with that a peaceful people, more particularly after Wilkes, the house agent, driven by some obsolete dream of acquisition, had been drowned in the pool by the ruined gas-works for making inquiries into title and displaying a litigious turn of mind.

Disowned by her father, she marries my hero, and they live in a snug little villa outside Croydon, in which town he is set up as a house agent. He never succeeds in becoming a real gentleman after all.

Yet there were two or three small airless houses at the entrance end of Mews Street, which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject hangers-on to a fashionable situation; and whenever one of these fearful little coops was to be let (which seldom happened, for they were in great request), the house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town, inhabited solely by the elite of the beau monde.

Then Leonard entered Block B of the flats, and turned, not upstairs, but down, into what is known to house agents as a semi-basement, and to other men as a cellar.

He told me, however, that up to very lately there had been a notice board of "For Sale" up, and that perhaps Mitchell, Sons, & Candy the house agents could tell me something, as he thought he remembered seeing the name of that firm on the board.

The latter, whose name was Leonard Crane, came straight from a crude and almost cockney office of builders and house agents in the neighboring suburb, sunning itself at the end of a new row of jerry-built houses with plans in very bright colors and notices in very large letters.

Searches have also been conducted at the offices of two chartered accountants and one Custom House Agent (CHA) who helped Kapur in creating a web of shell firms, managing the books of accounts and filing import documents with the Customs Authority.

While Akpoture, a house agent, was said to be innocent but caught in the company of the other two during the arrest, Daniel Robinson, one of the suspects was allegedly epileptic unknown to the police at B'Division.