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Harlow & Vane

An independent estate agent in Exeter selling period and country homes across the city, the Exe estuary villages and East Devon. They compete with national portals and online agents on trust rather than fees, so the site has to make a seller feel their house will be presented beautifully, and make a buyer believe this is where the best local homes appear first.

The Harlow & Vane website on a phone

Why it looks like this.

The site opens as a poster: "Find your HOME" cut clean out of a stone-coloured sheet, with the Exe estuary seen from the air showing through the letters. Scroll, and the camera falls through the O of HOME into Devon, then keeps going: down to a village lane, onto a Georgian front, up to a dark green front door, which swings open on its hinge into a cream entrance hall. Five photographs, one continuous journey, and it says what an estate agent is for better than any headline, because it is the journey every buyer is making. Noto Serif Display, a high-contrast serif with a condensed width axis, sets the giant HOME and the chapter titles in the voice of a country-house particulars sheet; Host Grotesk keeps prices, bedrooms and filters crisp. After the hall, the listings stack like particulars laid on a desk, each sliding over the last, and the rest of the page (a serif "Just sold" ticker, the estuary map, published fees, a dusk valuation) stays quiet so the homes do the talking. It is all scroll-driven CSS, and anyone who prefers reduced motion simply gets the poster.

Palette

Midnight green#0F2A26
Brass#C9A56A
Stone#EDE8DF
Ink#16130F

Typography

Display
Noto Serif Display
Body
Host Grotesk

On the page

  • Home
  • Buy
  • Sell
  • Let
  • Area guides
  • Valuation
  • Contact

What this build does differently.

A scroll dive from the air to the front door

The page falls through the letters of HOME into the estuary, down a lane, onto a house and through its opening front door. It is the buyer’s journey, and it is the part people remember.

Search in the first screen

Location, budget and bedrooms sit under the headline, because most visitors arrive to search.

Listings that stack like particulars

Each home slides over the last with its price, beds, baths, EPC and tenure always visible, so browsing feels like leafing through a folder of particulars.

A "Just sold" ticker and an estuary map

Constant quiet proof that homes are moving, and a map whose pins pulse around the nine places the agency covers.

Fees published

Sales and lettings fees are on the page in plain percentages, so a seller can compare before booking a valuation.

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