Presentation is everything!

So it's back to work for me after having last week off house building for a rest. The building went well, I made a start on the circular oak staircase which is just like building a boat and I got through lots of coordination of things needed to get closer to finishing. The only thing that didn't go to plan last week is we put the digger through the mains power cable which brought proceedings to a premature end for the week. It is lucky I was off because I normally spend the whole of Friday afternoon on the phone getting updates on the weeks performance and with no power there was also no phone! So if it had to happen then it happened on the right day!

The offices had a good week for exchanges of contracts last week which was good to see and that means there will be a lot of happy customers moving into their new homes over the next couple of weeks. Our current sales have slowed up again and it is very difficult to understand what is influencing the market now. I thought the financial news was not so bad at the minute and the Euro crisis hasn't had so much air time so I thought we may see a little more confidence in the market return but it is still tough and if you want to sell in the current climate then the price has to be right and the presentation brilliant.