Dr Feelgood

Our busy time has carried on. I asked all of the Bradleys Offices to go out and see their customers a couple of weeks ago and carry out a through market review if a property has been on the market for 7 weeks or more. The review included an update of details, photos, marketing and price. In most cases where all of things were looked at and revised it did enough to generate new interest in a property and has contributed to some good sales last week. 

Personally I was quite worried about what would happen last week with about one third of our sales force on holiday and many of our customers also away on holiday, all taking advantage of the 2 consecutive Bank Holidays which meant a weeks holiday could be achieved with only 3 days leave taken. My fears were however unfounded as the Market Reviews helped to generate many good sales and we had one of our best sales weeks of the year!

Does that mean that some of the houses were a bit stale to the market? Does that mean some of the houses were a tiny bit expensive in a competitive market or does that mean with all the Diamond Jubilee celebrations taking place everyone had a better feel good factor and that contributed to sales. I don't know but Greece and Spain hardly got a mention on the news last week and everyone seemed a lot happier. I suspect the answer is a combination of all three things and I just hope that any feel good factor is not obliterated by the relentless scaremongering of the news channels and their coverage of the Eurozone this week.