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As I am wandering around the garden centre with the music tinkling away in the background, I spot in the far corner a lonely garden gnome sat on the edge of a feature pond, with a single-line fishing rod in…

Are you gullible? I ask this as there is an increasingly growing trend amongst some estate agents to heavily overvalue property, in a poorly conceived logic of simply getting property onto their books at whatever cost. One of the worst…

Please say the last time you went past a new secondary school, primary school, doctors surgery or hospital being built? The deafening silence concurs with myself – me neither. So putting our political differences aside, building some more homes I…

Viewings are the lifeblood of any sale, whether you have them beating down your door or more likely in the current market, a handful of quality buyers coming to look around your home. Attitudes in recent years have shifted. Gone…

“The most hateable TV show ever made” and a zero star rating. You may think I’m talking about the latest general election debate, but it’s actually Buying London, the newest property reality show from Netflix. Property Reality Shows For the…

I happened to go and see Basil and Barney the other day – my parents’ sausage dogs! As soon as I opened the front door, they were both running in circles and so happy to see me, plus eager to…

Buyers are hiding! Long gone are the days of simply slinging a property on Rightmove, keep your fingers crossed and let the leads come in. With so much information out there online, whether it floorplans, numerous photographs or a full…

For many sellers out there, the world of estate agency immediately conjures up scenes from a Clint Eastwood western movie. Agents eyeing each other up under their Stetsons in the midday sun, then taking each other outside to have a…

  As regular readers of my column will know, I like to stay one step ahead of everything that is going on in the world of property. And today’s thoughts are no exception. Rather than wait until we actually start…

  Bizarre I say it, but the M62 got me thinking the other day. As I was cruising down the motorway, there was pristine tarmac all clearly laid out in front of me and with limited traffic I was making…

  How dirty is your estate agent – seriously? I ask as there is a rising tension between estate agents and if one isn’t careful, you may find yourself caught in the middle. The way some estate agents are conducting…

  Property viewings are where the worlds of science and art converge. There are elements that are logical, but more often than not it is a feel of how to conduct them. One needs to remember, that by the time…

  I reckon I’ve sat through quite a number of estate agent pitches to would-be sellers over the last 20 years – it’s a number that will probably scare me if I stopped to work it out! One question that…

  As I am lying in the dentist’s chair for my annual check-up, squirming around like an upturned woodlouse, I am thinking to myself ‘if only I could control the time this took and make it as pain free as…

  Once upon a time, a new digital estate agency felt they would run all high street estate agents out of business and reform how we all thought about property, with their disruptor model of working. Brazen marketing, ultra low…