...estate agents are not interested in buyers, they are interested in vendors. Was that the water in the font that I heard bubbling? If an agent can get the instruction, then the buyers will come, no matter how uninspiring the performance. All the sales/tactics courses run by the large corporate organisations and training companies concentrate on sellers. Go on enough of these and agents become very...
June 2015
In September 2014, it was made law that agencies letting properties in England, Scotland or Wales had to become a member of a redress scheme. As of 1 June 2015, agents had to show that they were a member of one of the approved schemes offered by a trade association or guild such as the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and display the appropriate symbol in their office window. Regular...
Knockers. The word is used in many forms generating much amusement dependent upon its context. Cue a very young Jim Dale examining a very undressed Barbara Windsor to much oohing, aahing and knowing winks from the gathered Carry On cast. We all love them. Oeuvres of the Carry On franchise that is...what did you think that I was talking about? The lexicon of the property world has gained a new...
This week seemingly got worse for Foxtons estate agents-or at least their positive publicity machine took a bit of battering. This followed the previous week's outraged reporting of how they had charged a landlord £616, "to change a light fitting", when the actual contractor had 'only' charged £412.50-a mark up of 49%. Personally I would be more outraged that a contractor could charge just short...
So decreed the ever chirpy Bob the Builder and his erstwhile sidekick, Muck The Dumper Truck. Suspending one's disbelief for a second-not at the thought of a vehicle that can talk, but at the frankly preposterous suggestion that builders are a equable bunch with a 'can-do' attitude...I wondered whether today, Bob would ever get out of the starting gate at a planning meeting for children's television. ...
