So today I'm talking about empowerment. I'm all for people speaking up and standing up for themselves generally in life and the same goes for the house selling process. Your house is your biggest financial investment and you deserve to get the best return on your investment so you should take charge of how it is being sold. First of all, do some research: look at other similar houses on your street and in the area and see how much they are on the market for or have been sold

If you follow me on Facebook then you may have seen that I had a great result last week. I have been helping a lady who lives nearby - her house had been on the market for along time and I couldn't think why. It's on a nice, quiet street and it looked like a lovely house from the outside, so I looked at it online. It soon became clear that the photographs were not doing the house justice and there were a few things that needed changing. The day I heard that I'd been made redu

Just like in a job interview when the interviewer decides 3 seconds after you walk in the door whether they're going to employ you or not, a potential buyer will decide in 8 seconds whether they're interested in your house or not. And that's before they set foot inside. We're talking kerb appeal my friends. But what is it and how do you get it? Kerb appeal is literally what your house looks like from the kerb (NB 'curb' in this sense is American English - don't get me started

That's right, home staging is not just about strategically placed plants and bowls of fruit, it burrows deep into the psyche of the buyer. But guess what? It's as much, if not more, to do with the emotional state of the vendor. "How so?" I hear you ask. Great question! Buying a home is not only the biggest financial investment you'll ever make, but also the biggest emotional investment, and we all know that emotions cloud judgements. But it's not just buyers that are ruled by