When you first hear the word “auction”, what do you think of? Run-down homes? Repossessed properties? Buy-to-let landlords looking for a bargain? While all of these answers may have been true in the mid-1990s, the…
Imagine you’re shopping. You don’t have any money to spend and you see something that you have to have. “If only I had the money, I’d buy it like a shot!” So you go home, save up as quickly as possible and retur…
If you haven’t used a property auction before, it can seem like a bit of a risky business, especially when the average selling time is so short (just 6 to 8 weeks at Open Door). Some vendors worry that they won’t…
Have you been working on your sale strategy for a while and feel like things are going well? Perhaps you’ve had a recent viewing that’s left you hopeful? Or your agent has told you that a prospective buyer has bee…
We’ve blogged a lot about auctions recently and, before we move on, there’s one more thing that we should mention. It’s a common concern for people of all ages – the idea of having to move quickly. What sort of h…
Question: what do kitchen extensions, long-distance train travel and selling a house have in common? Answer: they can all be gruelling, disrupting and take far, far longer than expected. Wouldn’t that be a terrib…
