Selling in record time

Surrey_EA

DaftyDuck wrote: »

I suspect so. It was in Norfolk, nearly 20 years ago and, as I said, and he was {apologies, Surrey_EA} about the slimiest estate agent I have ever met.

No need to apologise! The vast majority make the rest of us look bad!

phoebe1989seb

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Note from my first post that the next house took 15 months. That's where we were over-egging the pudding, and pushed for too, too much.

We had one like that too, in 2007. The first EA we had it on with valued it at £675k. Having paid £117k for it ten years previously, I think we were being greedy (although we had spent around £100k on necessary upgrades and it was a one-off period house).

We actually liked this guy and his small independent company and they had sold two previous houses for us in record time - including our first house - so we were inclined to believe his valuation. Big mistake.

Six months later, a handful of viewings and no offers we jumped ship to one of his rivals who similarly specialised in the higher end properties locally. They valued it at £595k! We had two offers within two months - this was a 3500 sq ft house so there were never going to be masses of buyers clamouring for it - and accepted an offer of £585k which completed six weeks later........