Estate Agents, Valuers & Surveyors in London

It’s true. However, that’s the straightforward part. The role of your estate agent is not just to sell your property but to use their marketing capability and knowledge to obtain the very best price that the best buyer will pay and that is absolutely NOT straightforward.

Here is the first paragraph of a letter I received this week from a delighted client:

"We exchanged contracts on our house last Friday at more than 10% over the asking price, having instructed Marsh & Parsons only 10 days before.  As the property had been on the market with another agent since the previous September, we were delighted with this result."

My latest video blog gives an overview of what is currently happening in the London property market, as well as providing my predictions for the rest of this year. There continues to be much uncertainty, but with some very positive signs already this year, I do believe that London, having recovered some lost ground during 2009, will continue to grow during 2010. This blog highlights how stock is still an issue in the market, what I think will happen to property prices in London and my concerns about political interference in the market. I hope you enjoy watching it, and as always, please feel free to give your comments below.

 

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This time last year we were all approaching the coming year with a mixture of fear and trepidation.

The World was in turmoil, the property market had been the first to enter recession (we were the ‘Canary in the coal mine’) and had been on the way down since August 2007 and we were expecting a miserable year ... and then the phones started ringing.

By January 20th last year, we had registered literally hundreds of new and surprisingly motivated buyers and by the end of the month that had risen to over 1000.