We’re always grateful to our clients – buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants – for leaving feedback on our services. We’ve now been open in Bath for nearly 3 years and have pioneered plenty of new practices and technology into the Bath property market but it’s always been our ideal to mold our services around what our… Read More
What is an estate agent? Estate agents are a curious mixture of sales, marketing, administration and counsellors. Used right, an estate agent can maximise the selling value of your home by marketing it to the widest possible audience. Once buyers have started to enquire about the property, agents switch over to their sales skills to… Read More
I’m helping a few clients look for homes at the moment and spending a bit more time on property websites than usual. Normally, I’ll be checking our own properties or looking for comparables for valuations but now I’m having to look from the buyers end a bit more. I will be the first to admit I’m not a… Read More
Difficult to remember Southgate before Debenhams and the “busometer” but here’s a shot supplied by David Holloway of the mid point of building works. For more info on Madison Oakley or contact details for our directors, do visit our website.
Shoppers to Sainsburys will have noticed a hive of building activity behind Homebase as developer Crest Nicholson Regeneration starts creating the road network and laying foundations for the first 800 of the 2,000 planned homes of Bath’s Riverside development between the Lower and Upper Bristol Roads. The first phase will include 100 affordable and 199… Read More
The Moorland Estate After World War 2 there was a national housing crisis, Bath had lost 1029 dwellings in the blitz of April 1942, and in addition had to cope with the influx of Admiralty workers. The Government had decided that the Admiralty offices which had been brought to Bath for safety during the war… Read More
Excerpts below from our regular newsletters, focussing on naming traditions for local roads. Given the 7 local roads named after poets, it would be easy to assume how Poets Corner in Bear Flat (Bath) got its name. However, the estate was built by a family of devoutly religious builders and it may well be an homage… Read More
This stunning country cottage just south of Bath had been languishing on the market with two “upper market” Bath agents for 2 years. Cardinal marketing sins committed included grey unfocused photos (never updated), limited newspaper advertising, unaccompanied viewings, boards left up for months, no feedback to vendors and multiple web entries per agent on Rightmove. Having… Read More
A license for UK estate agents has been introduced for the first time in a major push to raise standards in the industry. The licence was launched at the House of Commons yesterday by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA). The NAEA says more must be done to protect consumers from unprofessional agents. A licensed estate agency branch means… Read More
