A week in the life of an estate agent By Nick I am a 15-year-old school student attending Beechen Cliff School. For my work experience I chose to spend a week at the estate agent Madison Oakley in their sales department on Moorland Road. I did this because I believed it would be a fun… Read More
Should you be using video to enhance your property marketing? Trying to carry on working during lockdowns forced many estate agents to look at using video to sell property as physical viewings weren’t an option at the time. As we returned to normal operations over the last year, videos seem to have gone back to… Read More
At this time of the year, questions to agents from their clients tend to fall into two camps – those involved in current sales who would very much like to be completed by Christmas and newer enquiries keen to know when might be the best time to kick off their New Year plans. With an… Read More
Get ahead of the competition with these top tips to succeed in a hot market. Buying in Bath this autumn? With local property stock levels at an all time low and demand at the other end of the spectrum (for the latest market stats, see our Oct market update article link), how do you get… Read More
A long road to market normality? Many estate agents have been back to work for a month now, newspaper headlines on property have been crammed full of doom & gloom but how has the Bath property market fared under lockdown and are we now bouncing back? Working with limited staff, appointment only offices and strict… Read More
Six top tips for moving by Christmas – Just like Easter and the beginning of the summer hols, December is a very busy month in any year for movers. With about three months to go now, we’re right in the middle of the time many homemovers decide they want to be in the new pad… Read More
Buying a home – just how long does it take? I’ve just read the results of a new survey which suggests it takes on average 6 months & 24 days for buying a home. The research, using polling data from 2000 buyers and conducted on behalf of a property virtual tours firm*, goes on to… Read More
May Bath property update – traditionally the busiest section of the Spring market, with buyers looking to secure properties to move into over the summer holidays, but how has the Bath property market coped after the Easter holidays and with continued Brexit uncertainty? Well, from some of the figures below (notably selling times), the answer… Read More
Proceedable viewings only ? “But they’re not even on the market yet!”. We’ve been fielding quite a few questions from our owners on this topic over the last few months as we’ve noticed an upsurge in viewings from what might be termed as “unproceedable” buyers. What do you think when your house is on the… Read More
March is a month stuffed full of important dates with the Bath Half falling on St Patricks Day this year as well as the clocks changing on Mothers Day and the Brexit deadline on the 29th. In Bath property market terms, its also usually the time of year when supply levels really start to increase… Read More
Bath property market update – January 2019 – If you’re wondering how the property market in Bath is coping with intermittent snow warnings and the threat of Brexit looming closer every day, here’s our latest selection of stats to give you some answers. You’ll find a wide selection of the latest Bath property market data… Read More
One of our newest clients called today to let me know they had been chased by one of the other agents she’d had out to value. When told she did not intend to use them and had in fact appointed us, she was rather surprised at their response. Apparently the best they could come up… Read More
