So….it would not be unreasonable to assume that as a property comes onto the market, the instructed estate agent will post the property details on various property portals and wait for the enquiries to roll in. However, this approach is…
As we approach Valentine’s Day it would seem that there’s a fair bit of love involved in estate agency! Estate agents are, if anything, matchmakers after all. And just as people fall in love with the right person, so buyers…
Whilst estate agents may extol the virtues of triple aspect rooms, double garages, or south-facing gardens, it’s usually the smallest of detail that makes a house irresistibly a home for us. A lovely client of mine told me this week…
I’ll tell you what you aren’t selling people – bricks and mortar. Let me explain. The Chief Executive of Black & Decker once said: “People don’t go into a DIY store because they need one of our drills. They go in because…
I spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing the differences between full-service high street estate agents and self-service, low-cost online agents with clients and peer groups. There are the inevitable fee comparisons, real people or computer algorithms, doing…
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has just announced a rise in the Bank of England base rate of 0.25% - the first increase in over a decade. The base rate is the figure on which mortgage rates in…
As the internet has become the first port of call for most prospective buyers, estate agents can feel somewhat swamped with so-called buyers. The issue is not a lack of enquiries, but which of those enquiries will turn out to…
Really? We shall see. The way I see it, British house prices will at best keep up with inflation this year and next, with no rises expected at all this year in London, and the so-called silver economy appears to…
