by admin108 | May 17, 2013
There is no doubt that the Hertfordshire property market is moving again and with properties selling quickly and new stock slow to come onto the market it looks like prices are going to be a good bit higher by the end of the year than the start. The attached article...
by admin108 | May 13, 2013
The Hertfordshire market has always been hugely influenced by the flow of buyers moving out of London to the relative peace, quiet and undoubted beauty of Hertfordshire. In fact I am a direct example of this trend as my parents moved our family from North London to...
by admin108 | Apr 16, 2013
Someone recently set up a web site with a giant red button saying “Do not press?” Most people did. A bit like you reading this blog post. Your attention has been grabbed and so you read on, wanting to know what it is all about. The first rule of selling. You have to...
by admin108 | Apr 5, 2013
Despite the cold weather the property market seems to be warming up as we move into April. All the indicators suggest that this year should be better than 2011 and 2012 in terms of the number of successful house sales that sellers will achieve. The Council of Mortgage...
by admin108 | Feb 25, 2013
Great news today, BigBlackhen.com has been nominated for the Estate Agency of the Year Awards for 2013. This is fantastic news as the ESTAS are the only awards voted for by people who bought and sold with us – each one has to fill out a questionairre asking how happy...
by admin108 | Feb 13, 2013
On Friday the 1st of March I’m going to jail (many would say about time!) and I need your help to raise the £1,000 bail needed to get me out. All the money goes to the Isabel Hospice who help care for local people with terminal illness, so a very good cause. If you...
by admin108 | Jan 31, 2013
I’ve just discovered a really neat little app on the multimap.com website that allows you to look at a map of an area in terms of relative house prices with red areas being the most desirable (and hence expensive) and green/blue areas being the least desirable (hence...
by admin108 | Jan 30, 2013
The Government are going to introduce new permitted development rights for owners of commercial office blocks to convert them to residential apartments. Sounds like a good idea. They should extend it to High Street shops as the blight of empty shops needs a solution...
by admin108 | Jan 23, 2013
More positive news, this time from the Council of Mortgage Lenders who cite the fiollowing reasons for optimism in the housing market: 1. The availability of 90%-plus LTV mortgages has more than doubled in the past two years 2. There is ‘much more’ lending at higher...
by admin108 | Jan 22, 2013
I thought it would be useful to tell local businesses a short history of my involvement with BNI networking and why it works for my business in generating quality leads. When I opened an office in Hertfordshire, having previously been down in Somerset, I was invited...
