In hindsight….

January 18, 2012

“The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight.” ~ Edward Kennedy Have you been trying to sell your home for months, or even years, without success? You’re certainly not alone;  did you know that only half  the properties on the market last year actually sold? Did you decline an offer in the first month [...]

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2012: An Estate Agent’s View

January 16, 2012

Today’s guest blog is courtesy of Jo Prado. Selling  your house in 2012 – has there ever been a better time?  We’ve just had a our busiest weekend since setting up our agency 6 months ago and it’s only the second weekend of the New Year. A fluke some might say or a sign of [...]

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Wall of Shame – How Clean is your House?

January 13, 2012

Very clean, as the evidence shows!  Laundry, ironing boards and cleaning stuff everywhere.  Pity the houses themselves aren’t all that!

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2012 – A waiting game?

January 9, 2012

According to the latest monthly survey from the Halifax, average house prices fell by only 1.3% last year.  This may come as a surprise to many, who could be forgiven for thinking that prices had plummeted.  However, our clients at HomeTruths are telling a different story: the general consensus is that whilst there were far [...]

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What can NLP teach us about selling houses?

January 7, 2012

NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming can be described as a ‘behavioural technology’.  According to Mind Training Systems in Surrey, an NLP Master Practitioner Training Centre, this simply means that it is a “set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about real-life behaviour”.  So what on earth does NLP have to do with selling houses? I had [...]

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Your New Year’s Resolution – selling your home?

January 3, 2012

Hello, Happy New Year and welcome back! Have you resolved to sell your home in 2012?  It is going to be a tough year, as all the experts are telling us.  It’s generally predicted to be a quiet year on the property front, with words like “stale” and “no activity” being banded around.  So what [...]

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Motorbikes and trainers

December 23, 2011

I once was asked by a client to help him sell his beautiful 18th Century oak-framed barn in Cheshire.  Despite selling a home in the £500,000 plus bracket, my client was still only in his twenties, having been initiated into the very successful family business from an early age.  His two passions were motorbikes and [...]

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Are you a Rightmove Addict?

December 21, 2011

Today’s post is by Andrea Morgan, Twitter’s very own @RightmoveAddict I remember when I first got interested in property, I had moved back home and decided I enjoyed my own space and wanted my first home.  I went to viewing after viewing, nothing caught my fancy.  One day I was driving down a street and [...]

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‘Butterflies’ Parking and other Don’ts

December 19, 2011

What kind of can do you have?  Is your driveway garnished by a gleaming Mercedes or understated Audi?  Perhaps you figured your estate agent’s car was more appealing to show off your home, so he left his BMW on show for the photographs.  Or maybe your muddy Mini was already parked and no one suggested [...]

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Insights from Estate Agency of the Year 2011: Sam’s Thoughts

December 16, 2011

In case you haven’t been keeping up with my posts this week, last Thursday I was lucky enough to be invited to the Estate Agency of the Year Awards 2011.  Sponsored by the Sunday Times, this is one of the most coveted awards in the industry calendar, particularly for smaller agencies, devoid of feedback from [...]

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