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Best Value
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We have just reduced two major homes in price - one by 20% the other by almost a massive ...
Eton Heights - surrounded by nature, in love with living ...
We really thought that we had seen and heard it all before, until Phillip Leigh showed us the latest development they are marketing at Eton Heights, Woodford Green.
Well - surprise, surprise we have to take our hat...
Hot Property
There was some good news coming out this week with the announcement that it was the busiest month for processing new mortgage applications since the beginning of the credit crunch.
Additionally, the weekend FT...
LOCAL PROPERTY MARKET
IT’S BEEN QUITE A FEW YEARS SINCE I WROTE THIS COLUMN IN ANOTHER LOCAL PAPER AND A LOT OF WATER HAS, AS THEY SAY, FLOWED UNDER THE BRIDGE SINCE THEN.
COINCIDENTALY IT BEGAN MIDWAY THROUGH THE LAST PROPERTY RECESSION...
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Welcome to the area's (if not the whole of England's) first residential Estate Agent's Blog and Twitter.
When all my contemporaries...
Crystal Ball Gazing
THE LOCAL PROPERTY MARKET JANUARY 2010
A big welcome to 2010 to you all. I take my job of advising local people buying and selling homes in the local arrears very seriously.
We are all living in an...
SECRET SELLERS
We have several clients who do not wish to fully expose their property to the market. They will only allow serious buyers recommended by us to view as they do not want their carpets worn out by sight-seers.
If you...
The Local Property Market Dec 09
THE LOCAL PROPERTY MARKET
How’s The Market?
This is a question every estate agent is asked at every dinner party they attend.
In my case I answer it as it is and as I see it. Others may choose to “talk it up”...
Time Wasters??
Many years ago, well not that long ago really – ok, so it was 40 years ago! A young lady applied for a job as secretary/P.A. to my fledgling estate agency at Gants Hill. I was at that time ready, and almost able, to pay...
Property Market September 2010
As life in the fast lane becomes more difficult we are seeing and will undoubtedly hear more and more stories of scams and con tricks being perpetrated by rogues who are only too eager to part a fool from his (or her) money....
Phillip Leigh Editorial Nov 2010
I have deliberately left penning my column until the very last minute, as I was anxious to let you have 'hot off the press news' regarding our launch of the latest premier development of fabulous homes, on behalf of our...
Phillip Leigh Editorial Nov 2010
With all the talk of cut backs and economies it is hardly surprising that each of us is looking long and hard at our personal cost of living and trying to save as much as possible. When it comes to selling a home however,...
Phillip Leigh Editorial Jan 2011
Being an avid listener to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme during my workout each morning, I have become conscious of the proliferation of experts that are interviewed each day on almost every subject the programme features....
Phillip Leigh Editorial Feb 2011
There is part of our brain, we are told, that thinks in pictures. If I would say for example “it’s as big as a tennis ball” or “the size of an olive” we would instantly relate the size of the object being discussed. However,...
Phillip Leighs Editorial March 2011
My late mother, who I will always thank for inspiring me to write, was a fountain of knowledge when it came to old sayings and metaphors. One of which that has kept me on the straight and narrow over the years is: “if you...
Phillip Leighs Guide to Property April 2011
As I write the sun is creeping out from beneath the clouds, both meteorologically and metaphorically in elation to our local property market. Don’t ask me why but since the 21st March (1st day of Spring) there seems to be...
Phillip Leigh Property Market May 2011
As I sit down to write my monthly diatribe, having removed myself from the TV screen after watching Will and Kate marry (Yes I WAS quite miffed that I did not receive an invitation) , we are once again into yet another Bank...
Phillip Leighs Local Property Market June 2011
I have over the past weeks received reports from several disgruntled local sellers that the standard of service received from many local Estate Agents was far below that which had been promised when they first pitched for...
Phillip Leighs Editorial September 2011
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Have you ever taken a close look at how much Companies are spending on advertising? I have with my own business, and it is quite frightening! As with every...
Phillip Leighs Local Property Market Sep 2011 Docklands Magazine
Phillip Leigh’s Local Property Market
For those of you that have lived the most sheltered of lives you may not be aware that Chigwell and its environs has developed over the past 50 years or so from one of London’s...
Phillip Leigh Editorial October 2011 YDC
You will recall that following on from last month’s magazine, featuring Chigwell, I will now attempt to describe the area of Loughton.
There was a time when Loughton was considered to be Chigwell’s poor neighbour. Not...
Phillip Leigh Editorial Oct 2011 Chigwell Life
PHILLIP LEIGH’S LOCAL PROPERTY MARKET
I intended to begin this piece by saying I hoped you enjoyed the summer, or what there was of it. But as I put pen to paper, yes I still write my articles...
Phillip Leighs Local Property Mart October 2011
Phillip Leigh’s local property market.
Despite spending almost all of my working life in this business, I am still at a loss to understand the reaction I get from property owners who seek my advice regarding the...
Phillip Leighs Local Property Mart October 2011
Phillip Leigh’s local property market.
It’s very strange that despite the media being full of doom and gloom, there are still owners who are in denial regarding the severity of the current financial crisis. ...
