STAFF ADDITIONS

I can't believe how much busier we have been lately, I have even employed three new members of staff - Rebecca Wallace and Samantha Jones-Davies are here full time and Vicky Dudley assists us on Saturdays to help us serve our clients.
Samantha Barrow has passed her Technical Award in Residential Estate Agency and Charlotte Teague has started her studying for the Technical Award in Residential Lettings and Management. I really do have a great team here working with me.

I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK...

I have been amazed at how many stories I have to tell about my life as an Estate Agent, chatting to friends the other night, one of them suggested I should write a book. I might one day.
There was the house that the owner kept for people leaving prison and it had the remains of a 5 year old roast chicken left on the cooker. It was green and crawling with maggots.......
The time I knocked on the door to carry out a pre-arranged viewing only to meet the owner coming out of the shower having forgotton we were going.......
The day the owner told the viewers (and a staff member) all about why he had changed the bathroom suite. Trust me you don't want to know why.

Maybe one day...

MARKET UPDATE - AUGUST 2009

We have had our best week for over eighteen months last week with five sales agreed and yet more offers still under negotiation. I am hopeful that this renewed confidence is due to buyers not panicking that if they buy a property today that it will be worth less tomorrow. Most buyers are thinking more of it as a long term investment and we seem to be at the end of the slide in prices, with them now bumping along the bottom. Lets hope nothing else happens to set them off again.

Welcome back to the sun too! Herefordshire is such a beautiful county, I adore my job in these Summer months, driving around our glorious countryside, watching the crops changing and now being harvested. I am one lucky girl!

MARKET UPDATE - JULY 2009

The sun has gone again. Typical, no BBQ Summer for us. Anyway at least things are still inching forward, the people I talk to on a day to day basis don't seem quite as depressed about moving / selling / buying / renting as they have done over the past eighteen months. I have just made sure throughout it all that I keep smiling and working hard. It's amazing what results dilligence and elbow grease can bring..... our viewing numbers are up and offers too!

Still sales are shaky right through to exchange of contracts with more falling through than would in better times. But at least more buyers are willing to look and owners are more realistic about the price they will accept.

MARKET UPDATE - JUNE 2009

Thank goodness the sun is out! How lovely to see it again, it helps our properties look so much more attractive in the photographs we take when there is a blue sky behind and sunshine filtering through. Some cheeky offers this month, some owners have been willing to accept these and just made sure that they make a cheeky offer on the one they want to buy.

MARKET UPDATE - MAY 2009

May has been much better, more of everything... instructions, viewings, offers and sales. We are still a long way behind May 2007, but it is encouraging that first time buyers are registering with us to look for property. Even investors are fed up of their money making no return in the bank and being too risky in stocks and shares, so they are slowly returning to bricks and mortar. Good news for us!

MARKET UPDATE - APRIL 2009

Herefordshire Council have released figures saying that accordingly to the figures from Land Registry, there has been a 15.3% decrease in property values in the county of Herefordshire since the peak in Summer /Autumn 2007.

MARKET UPDATE - MARCH 2009

Spring is here and hopefully with it there will be a renewed interest in the property market. Thankfully the media are talking more about the banks and less about housing and this will help to stop destroying buyer's confidence.