There is now a perceptible mood change with buyers in the middle to upper sector of the Residential Property Market in London.
As we all know, last year was a mixed bag of blessings and curses. Trading during the first two quarters, for us, was disastrous, but during the last two quarters, we enjoyed some interesting business conducted on a number of residential properties in middle to upper ranges.
I have to say that the present febrile hysteria about moral rectitude may have gone quite mad.
The shameful, rush to judgment by the PM, MPs, charities and the Press in the Presidents Club debacle was staggering.
By the scribings of one lowly journalist, posing as a hostess at the Presidents Club function, on a mission to find a story, without any apparent substantiation, has turned into the modern version of a ‘kangaroo court’ and a subsequent ‘lynching’.
You would think that the process of selecting a buyer for a particular property is important. You would also think that an appointment for them to inspect the property, is crucial. But, how many estate agents know how to get a deal across the line? This is a vital science, which is so important to the success of the process, yet many of them are clueless as to how to master it.
Over 41 years in the residential property business, I have been brought into ‘problem deals’ as a ‘Mr. Fix-It’ and we have the highest success rate of any agent in business. More often than not, it is at a crucial time where intransigence and obstinacy of buyer and seller, is at its peak and where the closing of the last 10% of the price gap, between offer and acceptance, is most difficult.
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