The Market

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 f... Read more

Is your agent working for you? Ask them these questions, and see!

If your house has been on the market for more than three months, there are some questions you need to ask your estate agent to find out why it hasn’t sold so far, and what to do about it. A good agent will be able to a... Read more

The hardest of the “3 Ds” – Divorce

Selling a house is often difficult and fraught with emotion. Add a divorce to the mix and it’s downright traumatic. By its very definition, divorce is rarely amicable, and in most cases, one party is much more eage... Read more

Women are property hunting; how to appeal to them!

This month we’re looking at attracting the female buyer to your property. Women are three times as likely to pay the asking price for a property as men – does this mean that all sellers should be targeting the women ... Read more

Be a little different – Guerrilla marketing tips to sell your home!

Have you heard of guerrilla marketing? The term was coined and defined by Jay Conrad Levinson in his book Guerrilla Marketing and was invented as an unconventional system of promoting something, that relies on time,... Read more

Your Rightmove Property Performance Report

Do you know what a Rightmove Property Performance Report is? Well done those if you do! But if you think it sounds like an investor report, you may want to read on. Particularly if you’re trying to sell your house,... Read more

How to get into your buyer’s mindset

Proceedable buyers generally have mixed emotions about their impending purchase right now. On the one hand, they may be feeling a little invincible, being one of the highly sought-after minority that currently make up le... Read more

Good times or bad, why your property marketing has to be the very best

Today’s blog is courtesy of our south-west consultant, Claire Thatcher. When times are good, market activity is high, and there are plenty of buyers for plenty of houses – so why should they choose your house? Wh... Read more

Should I take my home off the market for winter?

This is a question we get asked all the time at HomeTruths. The answer is, it depends on your home! Some types of buyers will only view homes in the summer time; others search regardless of the time of year. Here’s my�... Read more

What are you paying your agent?

It never ceases to amaze me that around 70% of my clients don’t know the commission fee they have agreed with their agent. Given that agents seem to be prepared to negotiate and reduce their fees in order to achieve th... Read more