Our journal is a place where you will find our new blogs and stories. We comment on the housing market, give you links to Youtube videos on how to achieve our look and provide useful top tips on your own property presentation.
Update on the property market – September 2021
The first 6 months of 2021 saw record breaking sales across the housing market with demand for property still outstripping supply. Consumer confidence is higher than before the pandemic outbreak and mortgage rates remain low. Although price growth is anticipated to...
Trends for indoor/outdoor rooms
We’ve enjoyed a few hot days so far this summer and the prospect of more nice days to come is getting us excited. Just imagine your sunflowers are growing tall, your lavender scenting the whole garden and your first BBQ of the summer on the cards. This season, it is...
How to increase the value of your property when looking to sell
The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as food or clothing, but the same principle is often not applied when people are looking sell their biggest capital asset - their...
Interior styling to transform your home
When it comes to choosing the décor of your home, matching the potential buyer’s style with the period of your property is imperative. Here are four of our favourite styles to give your home a touch of added value, without having to spend a fortune to achieve it....
10 Tips for French Riviera Inspired Decor
INCOPORATING nods to the French Riviera throughout your home’s décor is a sure-fire way to impress friends and family and make it feel like a perfect getaway all year round. Here are our top ten tips for achieving this look, adding a quintessential Mediterranean charm...
3 reasons to recommend staging in a ‘hot’ market
One of the conversations we often have with estate agents at the moment goes along these lines; ‘The market is really good for sellers, there are far more buyers than sellers around. I don’t feel we need to recommend staging, it’s just an additional cost my vendor...
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Why Home Staging isn’t your USP
Until recently the ability of an estate agent to offer the services of a home staging company to their clients gave them a USP when they pitched for an instruction. That has ceased to be the case in the last 12 months. An agent who is not offering the services...
Why now is the perfect time to prepare for a downsize
If, like many of our clients, you are the proud owners of a period home, a rambling Victorian rectory for example or an imposing Georgian manor house and you were planning to downsize at some point in the next couple of years then you should be very excited by what is...
Views on the Market
Brexit negotiations in the run up to Christmas and the ever-increasing Covid numbers have had an impact on the property market of late. We’ve been interested in the views of the property experts who have been busily commenting over the last few days and so have done a...
2020, a year to remember!
We usually end our year reflecting on the clients we have met, the work we have achieved and the fun we have had along the way. This year it’s definitely been a little different and more challenging with COVID-19 impacting operations across the globe. Fortunately, we...
Our Christmas Gift of Sailability
Many of you will know that one of Elaine’s earlier careers was coaching sailing. She grew up on the coast in Norfolk and for many years was lucky enough to coach in many different countries. She has seen first-hand the tremendous benefits sailing can bring to both...
Don’t be offended if your agent suggests you have your home staged
People often ask us if vendors are offended when we are asked by an agent to advise on the presentation of their homes. The answer is that vendors are rarely offended but some can be little resistant. As we know, the UK has been slow to cotton on to the benefits of...
Act now to sell your property before the end of the stamp duty holiday
There’s certainly been a property market mini-boom since mid May which has seen a frantic rush to the market. Some of these vendors were people who were planning to move earlier in the Spring but had their sales halted by lockdown. Others decided to move as they...
Life Changing Events
Today is the day of my official book launch. I wrote ‘Sell High, Sell Fast – how to sell your home for the best possible price in the quickest possible time’ last Christmas and have spent much of this summer reviewing, editing and reviewing again with my fabulous...
Stageflow – the back story
Unusually for someone running a home staging business my degree is in Maths. I have had several careers, some using my degree and some not but having a brain which does numbers has always been useful. In home staging I have long maintained that concepts such as...
Housing Market Update
Rightmove has revealed the findings of some recent research on the property market and it will come as no surprise that, since the easing of lockdown as far as moving house is concerned, lots of people living in the biggest UK cities are now planning a move to the...
Colour Comeback
Katrina Burroughs wrote a lovely article for the Sunday Times this week 02/08/20 called ‘Colour is the new greige’. In it she talks about how people at home during lockdown, staring at their own four walls have been experimenting with colour resulting in ‘rainbow...
Rishi Sunak’s summer statement stimulates the housing market
Rishi Sunak’s announcement that there will be a Stamp Duty holiday on the first £500,000 of all property sales in England and Northern Ireland will be a massive boost to the housing market. Currently Stamp Duty is levied at 2% above £125,000 and 4% above £250,000...
Success during lockdown!
We’ve had an uncertain few months with the housing market being closed for two months during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a difficult time for vendors with property ready to sell but not being able to allow potential buyers through the door. But for...
