Phil Spencer Secret Agent

ruggedtoast

Phil_Spencer wrote: »

Hello everybody,

Phil Spencer here. I'm glad so many of you enjoyed the first show.

We are currently looking for people who need help selling their property. Would you like to feature in the next series?

If so, please post a Rightmove link to you property here.

All the best,

Phil.

Hi Phil

I'm having trouble shifting this.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-20045364.html

We've tried tidying up and mowing the lawn but nothing seems to work.

An Arab gentleman came over last week and we were highly optimistic of an offer but apparently he's decided to look at a timeshare in Marbella first before deciding. One of my wife's schnausers bit him on the sandal and I am concerned it gave him a bad impression.

Its terribly discouraging, I hope you can help!

toast

poppysarah

Phil - do you have any suggestions as to preventing chains from breaking.

Should, for instance, people go along with buyers requests to bury family pets in the garden even if they've not yet exchanged?

googler

"dirty crockery was piled into his kitchen sink for the purposes of filming a ‘before’ sequence"

...even though he'd told the programme's producer he was no longer selling...?

Strapped

Phil, I'm having a spot of bother shifting my cottage. Do you think that de-cluttering and a lick of magnolia paint would help? Here's a link:

http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-adverts.showadvert/index-1033354687/a8a80405.html

Strapped

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Hi Phil

I'm having trouble shifting this.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-20045364.html

We've tried tidying up and mowing the lawn but nothing seems to work.

An Arab gentleman came over last week and we were highly optimistic of an offer but apparently he's decided to look at a timeshare in Marbella first before deciding. One of my wife's schnausers bit him on the sandal and I am concerned it gave him a bad impression.

Its terribly discouraging, I hope you can help!

toast

I actually love the fact that they've had the nerve to use CGI to show "what it could look like" - on a £75mn property!

poppysarah

What about contacting some people who've had houses for sale for a long time?
http://propertysnake.co.uk/site/postcode/m40

geoffky

I pity anyone whos life is so shallow they have to watch this pile of crap...its on the list along with....soaps...xfactor..come dancing any celebrity programme and 96% of the other brain numbing things that they show on tv...i really pity anyone who has a life revolving around a tv watching this type of dumbed down rubbish ..life is too short to be infected by it..

Strapped

geoffky wrote: »

I pity anyone whos life is so shallow they have to watch this pile of crap...its on the list along with....soaps...xfactor..come dancing any celebrity programme and 96% of the other brain numbing things that they show on tv...i really pity anyone who has a life revolving around a tv watching this type of dumbed down rubbish ..life is too short to be infected by it..

You need to turn up your sarcasm detector .

Phil_Spencer

poppysarah wrote: »

Phil - do you have any suggestions as to preventing chains from breaking.

Anyone selling now is probably aware that current conditions are challenging.

The most important thing you can do is price your property realistically from the start. Get this wrong and you risk running into problems if the purchaser's surveyor values it lower than the offer price. This is the biggest cause of chains breaking.

Against this backdrop, where house prices are not increasing at historic rates, it may be necessary for vendors to accept offers below asking price in order to facilitate a move. It all depends how motivated they are to sell.

There was a good example of this on last night's Location, Location, Location. The vendor accepted an offer of £25k below the asking price!

This would not have happened during the peak but is likely to be more common for the immediate future.

All the best,

Phil.

atush

Phil,

Have been enjoying your show. Have to sky+ it so OH can watch it with me- are they going to put it on at night?

Have a large barn conversion, and have been here for 16 years. Will be moving out to rented next year and redeveloping to make it more contemporary and slick for the resale market as it is a high value proerpty and those buyers will want swankier bathrooms etc that I was able to put in when I built it (as had 3 small ones, 2 in nappies) as budget was tight. So very much enjoying your show, and thanks for replying to people even though some have been rather snarky ;-)