by Zen | Aug 17, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations
Estate agents’ fees Competition between local estate agents is normally pretty fierce. Yet most turn over large sums and seem to do very nicely financially come rain or shine. For some agents the primary objective is to get the most ‘instructions’...
by Zen | Jul 26, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations
Sole and multiple agency Most people wanting to sell their property via an estate agent start by appointing a single agent – an arrangement known as ‘sole agency’. Here the appointed agent is the only estate agent with the right to sell your...
by Zen | Jul 7, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
Planning restrictions are not a major obstacle to housebuilding – so why is the government determined to overturn them? If the rate of UK house price increases over the last fifty years were applied to the price of food, then a chicken would today cost £70...
by Zen | Jun 16, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations
Sole or multiple agency? Should you appoint just one estate agent? Or is there a better chance of achieving a sale by using two or even three simultaneously? Most sellers appoint a single agent, until things get a bit desperate and 2 or more agents are...
by Zen | Jun 9, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
First Homes – at up to half price On 4th June 2021 the Government launched a new affordable housing scheme known as the ‘First Homes Scheme’. The First Home Scheme entitles first-time buyers who live in a household with a combined income of £80,000 or...
by Zen | May 18, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations
It’s not easy being an estate agent! Estate agents frequently find themsleves in the firing line for the failings of others, and have a reputation for disingenuousness second only to politicians and the tabloid press. Marketing properties may be...