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We are huge fans of Home Staging which is why we give our client’s free advice from an independent House Doctor.   There’s an interesting article today in Estate Agent Today showing that houses that have been professionally staged sell three times faster than houses that have not. We have found that when clients take up our free home staging advice that their homes look much more appealing and this translates to positive buyer comments when we hold an Open Day. It stands to reason that cluttered messy homes will stick on the market where lovely light modern ones will sell. To read the full article click here:

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For free home staging advice then call BigBlackHen.com on 01992-878580

……at 1.2% plus VAT on average and our fixed fees are even better value than this at less than 1% plus VAT! So if you are selling a £1.5 million house we could save you over £9,000 in fees.

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Selling houses is very much a people business and although technology is making huge changes to the way we search for and find our dream home it still requires skilled people to make the process work smoothly. The TV agents with their up-front fees and pared back service delivery are finding that as the market gets tougher, the need for quality service just gets greater. This is part of the reason why the shine has come off Purple Bricks with their share price back to around the launch price of a pound from the dizzy heights of nearer a fiver reached a year ago. As the old adage goes, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

EYE NEWSFLASH: Profits warning from Purplebricks

Interesting new research has shown that in recent months the market share of the TV estate agents has peaked and is now in decline. It seems that their model of up-front fees and minimal service delivery has struggled as the market conditions have got tougher – not surprising as it’s in these conditions that sellers need genuine expertise from their agent and a proper level of service to ensure that a sale gets through all the legal loopholes and actually exchanges and completes.

The old adage that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is, was never truer than with people claiming to deliver Champagne service and marketing on a beer fee. Estate agency is a people business and always will be and while technology can help in many things, on its own it won’t get you the…