Property marketing

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Should you use a virtual agent?

In these days where most anything we want to buy is but a click of the mouse away, do we really need an agent to sell our home? There are plenty of virtual estate agents out there ready to take our money and promise a sa... Read more
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Lessons from Dale Carnegie (who?)

Dale Carnegie’s acclaimed self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People published in 1936 still holds true today. I particular like his Six ways to make people like you. These are: Become genuinely interested ... Read more
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Time to prepare

Standing in my kitchen at home on a Sunday morning, peeling potatoes one-handed, generic smartphone in the other, I’m being subjected to a courteously-phrased but stinging tirade. My crime? I’m “not letting” a bu... Read more
A house with a beautiful flowery front garden.

What does your front garden say about you?

Just seconds into a first meeting we form an impression of people based on their appearance and how they’re dressed, and it’s much the same with the first sight of a front garden. If you’re selling your house the p... Read more
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Hard copy brochures? It’s the 21st Century!

I don’t know about you, but still I get excited about the post arriving. The satisfying thud it makes when it hits the doormat is a very welcome sound, and I often stop whatever it is that I’m doing and go to investi... Read more
An exquisite dining room with a colorful design, a wooden door, white kitchen cabinets, and glass windows with red-orange curtains.

Seeing your house through a buyer’s eyes

“Why do you have so many hairbrushes?”, asked our good family friend yesterday, who is stopping with us for three weeks. I turned around to check what he was talking about and my eyes landed on a familiar yellow glas... Read more