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Category Archives: Selling
5 Ways to Keep Your Agent Onside
It’s very tempting when the market is difficult to blame your estate agent, especially when you doubt they are actually doing anything proactive to sell your house. But however inclined you might feel to bawl them out, it’s vital that … Continue reading
The sweet smell of success
Freshly brewing coffee? Baking bread? Do they really work? In my opinion, these are just a little bit too obvious – and as such, will come across as you trying too hard. However, it is true that the sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Home Staging, Selling
Tagged Home Staging, preparation, Selling, smell, viewing
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Retake your own front shot in 9 easy steps
Firstly, I always advocate professional photography of your property as the best option to sell your house effectively. However, you may have had your photographs taken in October, and now we’re almost in May, they’re looking decidedly out of season. … Continue reading
My 20 Minute Weekly Workout for Home Sellers
Your house is finally on the market: it’s looking wonderful, your photography looks great, your brochure enticing; time to sit back and wait for an offer, right? Wrong! When it comes to selling your home, patience is not the virtue … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Estate agent, Rightmove, Rightmove Property Performance Report, viewings
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My Pony Tale
When I was a young teen, I was lucky enough to have a pony. He was a beautiful Welsh Mountain palomino, called Biscuit, and I adored him. My very favourite thing to do was to explore the countryside with him, … Continue reading
No Pets Please
Whether you have a solitary budgie or a whole menagerie, any pet you have will doubtless be a very important member of your family. However, even though it’s sometimes difficult for pet lovers to imagine, there is in fact a … Continue reading
Big house: small budget
A couple of years ago, I was asked to look at a house in Lancaster that was proving difficult to sell. A large Victorian house set over five stories, the family owners had loved it for twenty years, and now … Continue reading
Timing is everything
When you get a call from your estate agent to book in a viewing, are you ultra accommodating, eager to please? Do you change your plans in order to make sure that your viewers can view your home when they … Continue reading
What exactly IS home staging??
Home staging, or as it’s sometimes known, house dressing, has been with us now for over a decade. Originating in the States, the formidable Anne Maurice brought the concept over in 1998 with her Channel 5 programme ‘House Doctor’ and … Continue reading
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Tagged accessories, furniture, Home Staging, investment
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How to avoid the ‘garden close’
Where do your viewings end? After you’ve shown them round the house, do you then take them into the garden? The problem is with doing this, is that as they are already in their garden, possibly in sight of their … Continue reading
