- sleep on it!

5. Run your flag up the pole - Many people feel reluctant to use all the marketing tools available to them and especially 'For Sale' boards. Sometimes, in the case of leasehold blocks of flats, this is prohibited by your lease, but if not you should have one. People do drive around, even when they are on their way to visit another property, and your 'For Sale' board is on duty 24 hours a day. If your worried about the neighbours knowing that you are thinking of moving, what do you think they make of the viewers arriving waving property details around as they walk to your front door!<

The chances of everyone having a similar taste in what a house/flat should look like are pretty remote, but often or not and certainly on a subliminal level, prospective buyers soak up how you present your home and the vast majority admit to allowing this to influence their purchase decision. This can be especially true with First Time Buyers who have less experience and/or imagination in what they want or can do with their first home.

1. Blank Canvas - Not an option available to many of us, but if you are able to sell a property vacant then everyone can see what they want to see! The added benefit is a potentially very quick purchase/sale situation and as we all know, once you have your new toy you just want to play with it as quickly as you can!

2. Added Benefits - Contrary to some misguided opinions, how many power points you have in all the rooms does not make or brake a deal. One could maybe profer a contrary argument on this with relation to the Kitchen, but as you are selling ask yourself did you ever go around counting them when you bought the property! If you do not have fitted appliances, keep them out of the initial sales particulars, as they can prove useful in bridging a gap between an offer and what you would like to achieve - even if you do not want them, as your new purchase has everything already fitted, you can always sell them on ebay!

3. Live and let live - Well in an ideal world of course, but remember although it is your home you will have an assorted group of strangers coming to visit and human nature being what it is, they will comment on how you live - not to your face of course, but on their trip back from whence they came - so tidy up as if you were about to be visited by your new in-laws! This goes for smells as well so cliche stuff like no wet dogs and bread baking in the oven, can set the right mood!

4. Sleep on it - Seems to be another human nature thing, but the consensus of opinion reckons that most people make up their mind to buy somewhere within minutes of entering your portals. Even when this is a negative, very few abort the obligatory tour and very few have the compunction to tell you that they are not interested and some even tell you they will be contacting the agent in the morning with a view to an offer - the truth is they often say entirely nice things to avoid embarrassment as they see it - so don't open the champagne on a viewers say so - sleep on it!

5. Run your flag up the pole - Many people feel reluctant to use all the marketing tools available to them and especially 'For Sale' boards. Sometimes, in the case of leasehold blocks of flats, this is prohibited by your lease, but if not you should have one. People do drive around, even when they are on their way to visit another property, and your 'For Sale' board is on duty 24 hours a day. If your worried about the neighbours knowing that you are thinking of moving, what do you think they make of the viewers arriving waving property details around as they walk to your front door!<

is a potentially very quick purchase/sale situation and as we all know, once you have your new toy you just want to play with it as quickly as you can!

2. Added Benefits - Contrary to some misguided opinions, how many power points you have in all the rooms does not make or brake a deal. One could maybe profer a contrary argument on this with relation to the Kitchen, but as you are selling ask yourself did you ever go around counting them when you bought the property! If you do not have fitted appliances, keep them out of the initial sales particulars, as they can prove useful in bridging a gap between an offer and what you would like to achieve - even if you do not want them, as your new purchase has everything already fitted, you can always sell them on ebay!

3. Live and let live - Well in an ideal world of course, but remember although it is your home you will have an assorted group of strangers coming to visit and human nature being what it is, they will comment on how you live - not to your face of course, but on their trip back from whence they came - so tidy up as if you were about to be visited by your new in-laws! This goes for smells as well so cliche stuff like no wet dogs and bread baking in the oven, can set the right mood!

4. Sleep on it - Seems to be another human nature thing, but the consensus of opinion reckons that most people make up their mind to buy somewhere within minutes of entering your portals. Even when this is a negative, very few abort the obligatory tour and very few have the compunction to tell you that they are not interested and some even tell you they will be contacting the agent in the morning with a view to an offer - the truth is they often say entirely nice things to avoid embarrassment as they see it - so don't open the champagne on a viewers say so - sleep on it!

5. Run your flag up the pole - Many people feel reluctant to use all the marketing tools available to them and especially 'For Sale' boards. Sometimes, in the case of leasehold blocks of flats, this is prohibited by your lease, but if not you should have one. People do drive around, even when they are on their way to visit another property, and your 'For Sale' board is on duty 24 hours a day. If your worried about the neighbours knowing that you are thinking of moving, what do you think they make of the viewers arriving waving property details around as they walk to your front door!<

en an offer and what you would like to achieve - even if you do not want them, as your new purchase has everything already fitted, you can always sell them on ebay!

3. Live and let live - Well in an ideal world of course, but remember although it is your home you will have an assorted group of strangers coming to visit and human nature being what it is, they will comment on how you live - not to your face of course, but on their trip back from whence they came - so tidy up as if you were about to be visited by your new in-laws! This goes for smells as well so cliche stuff like no wet dogs and bread baking in the oven, can set the right mood!

4. Sleep on it - Seems to be another human nature thing, but the consensus of opinion reckons that most people make up their mind to buy somewhere within minutes of entering your portals. Even when this is a negative, very few abort the obligatory tour and very few have the compunction to tell you that they are not interested and some even tell you they will be contacting the agent in the morning with a view to an offer - the truth is they often say entirely nice things to avoid embarrassment as they see it - so don't open the champagne on a viewers say so - sleep on it!

5. Run your flag up the pole - Many people feel reluctant to use all the marketing tools available to them and especially 'For Sale' boards. Sometimes, in the case of leasehold blocks of flats, this is prohibited by your lease, but if not you should have one. People do drive around, even when they are on their way to visit another property, and your 'For Sale' board is on duty 24 hours a day. If your worried about the neighbours knowing that you are thinking of moving, what do you think they make of the viewers arriving waving property details around as they walk to your front door!<

baking in the oven, can set the right mood!

4. Sleep on it - Seems to be another human nature thing, but the consensus of opinion reckons that most people make up their mind to buy somewhere within minutes of entering your portals. Even when this is a negative, very few abort the obligatory tour and very few have the compunction to tell you that they are not interested and some even tell you they will be contacting the agent in the morning with a view to an offer - the truth is they often say entirely nice things to avoid embarrassment as they see it - so don't open the champagne on a viewers say so - sleep on it!

5. Run your flag up the pole - Many people feel reluctant to use all the marketing tools available to them and especially 'For Sale' boards. Sometimes, in the case of leasehold blocks of flats, this is prohibited by your lease, but if not you should have one. People do drive around, even when they are on their way to visit another property, and your 'For Sale' board is on duty 24 hours a day. If your worried about the neighbours knowing that you are thinking of moving, what do you think they make of the viewers arriving waving property details around as they walk to your front door!<

- sleep on it!

5. Run your flag up the pole - Many people feel reluctant to use all the marketing tools available to them and especially 'For Sale' boards. Sometimes, in the case of leasehold blocks of flats, this is prohibited by your lease, but if not you should have one. People do drive around, even when they are on their way to visit another property, and your 'For Sale' board is on duty 24 hours a day. If your worried about the neighbours knowing that you are thinking of moving, what do you think they make of the viewers arriving waving property details around as they walk to your front door!

6. If all fails - Lets face it, it one thing to have a 'Sale subject to Contract' but that’s exactly what it means - until the ink is on the paper and lawyers exchange polite phone calls - you have nothing but expressed intent! Until the day that England and Wales change the conveyancing law, its a gripping cliff hanger ride all the way. There can be mounds of disinformation flying around, contradictory tales and promises made, but it can all come to nothing when the pressure is on and if there is a big chain alla Jacob Marley's it can be a real nightmare, but in this case, a broken chain is not what to wish for......sometimes a quicker solution can be better.