Negotiation, Negotiation, Negotiation Not.

Best not to ask me why I did it, but I sat down last night to watch the last bit of Location, Location, Location on Channel 4. From what I could see, there were two sets of househunters, one with 400,000 to spend on a home in the village where half of them grew up, and the other looking for a house in Torquay to suit their 550,000 budget. One of the househunters was a football coach and the other one had an obsession with surfing. Explaining that, presumably, filled up another five minutes of airtime. With this detailed brief, Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer - plus the research team who do all the work for them - head off into the distance to look for a suitable selection of potential homes that might tick all the boxes.

No Wonder Estate Agents are Dishonest

There are over one million residential properties currently for sale in the UK. The average estate agent has 74 on its books says Rightmove, greater than at any time since the top property website was founded in 1999. Its latest June House Price Index is candid. Asking prices have risen for six months in a row. But transactional volumes are barely half what they were in 2007. Tight mortgage lending, plentiful choice of homes on the market and resourceful, cautious buyers combine to encourage Rightmove to call the ongoing rise in asking prices a ‘romp away from reality’. So why the romp?

Power To The Portal!

Are property websites really the ‘be all and end all’ of property search? Surely their effectiveness has peaked now and will, at best, plateau? The likes of Rightmove, Zoopla, Property Finder and Prime Location (the latter two out of the same Digital Property Group stable) are already massive by volume of visits. Here are the Nielsen unique visitor traffic numbers for the UK’s leading property portals as at January 2011:

It’s Time For A Change In The Conveyancing Process

Ever been gazumped or gazundered? Or lost out on a property purchase because the owner changed their mind about selling at the last minute or the buyer got cold feet on the day of exchange of contracts and pulled out leaving you footing a fortune in lawyers’ costs and abandoned surveys? Perhaps you’ve been on the rough end of a tussle over a whether a washing machine or water butt should be left in situ? And fought about moving day being a Thursday or a Friday?

The Case Of The Toothless Watchdog

This week it has been reported that lettings agent Sharon Price of Price Properties in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire has been fined 3,000 by magistrates for failing to repay 90,000 of funds to her clients. She claims ill health as her reasoning for the absence of rental payments being passed on from tenants albeit that evidence has emerged that payments were often set up to be made by Price’s staff only to be rescinded by her the following day.

You Want To Complain? And About Time, Too!

At long last that famous British ‘mustn’t grumble’ attitude is starting to come to an end. It’s about time - we’ve all been putting up with poor food in restaurants, poor service in shops and poor communications from estate agents. Now the tide is turning, and the Property Ombudsman has a bit of work on his hands, because in 2010, he received 1338 complaints about estate agents.

House Listing: A List Of Good Business

People will always look for the easiest way when they want to do something including people who are looking to buy a house. They want to find beautiful houses as easy as possible. And looking on the internet is one of the easiest ways in finding the right home you could own someday. Putting up your property in a house listing is the best choice you could do when selling your house.

Sell House Online And Making Your Price Attractive

If you want to sell house online, among the ways you may have to consider is to set an asking price, a manipulation which needs the capacity to look for the balance between strong offers and ultimately getting greater bucks as an income.

The Practical Rent To Own Houses Scheme

People are continuously searching for the place they can consider as “ideal.” They move from one city and from one neighborhood to another. They bring with them high hopes of finding the house that will greatly entice them. When they have finally laid their eyes on it, another problem comes into the picture. What will happen to their present houses? The question is irksome because the monetary value of the houses is at stake.

The Break Up And The Need To Sell My House Fast

Break ups usually are not just agonizing, these are likewise difficult to handle. They are usually draining and nerve-wracking. Needing to go forward and to relocate to a different place, you think it is possible to put aside the punishing memories? You may scream, “I wish to sell my house fast!” After that, you start computing the acquisition cost of the residence. You must also note the rise of the lot value since the older it will be, the more costly it will be, for most instances.