Hi All in cyberworld, if there is anyone out there that knows any PR experts ideally in the property market please can you contact me.
Thanks in advance, hope you are enjoying our blogs.
Peter
Monday 31 January 2011
Saturday 29 January 2011
Progress as an apprentice
Now I have my first deal under belt, I have been down to meet the guys at the property to do some final measurments before they get the keys in February. All the paperwork is sorted and deposits paid, now its just the final bits to get together.
With this being my first deal, I am keen to try and do as much as I can by my self using the knowledge and tips I have learnt from Mark,Kat, Simon and Peter in the office and also my studies. I'm confident I can finish things up on my own and for it to be a completely successful and problem free deal!
Watch this space Leigh-on-Sea, I'm Hungry for more deals!
Happy weekend everybody.
Josh
With this being my first deal, I am keen to try and do as much as I can by my self using the knowledge and tips I have learnt from Mark,Kat, Simon and Peter in the office and also my studies. I'm confident I can finish things up on my own and for it to be a completely successful and problem free deal!
Watch this space Leigh-on-Sea, I'm Hungry for more deals!
Happy weekend everybody.
Josh
Friday 28 January 2011
Recognition for Leigh-on-Sea at last!
This recent article in the London evening standard quite rightly points out exactly what leigh-on-Sea is, taken for granted by us, it's current dwellers. So here it is....
A recent Halifax survey anointed Leigh-on-Sea the UK's second best coastal location (after Christchurch in Dorset), and it is easy to see why. The town boasts London's nearest beach, and Old Leigh, with its cobbled streets and clapboard cottages, is simply lovely.
If it is cute factor you are after, then a small fisherman's cottage in the old town is selling for between £220,000 and £250,000, while a little further out - but still within the conservation area - a three-bedroom Edwardian semi would cost between £350,000 and £380,000.
The old town has a small but sandy beach and a lively arts scene with an annual free folk festival, a regatta and the Leigh Art Trail where local and invited international artists show their work in the area's many shops and cafés. Unsurprisingly there are many excellent seafood restaurants in town, although a lot of the original cockle sheds have been converted into dinky houses.
The most popular suburbs include the Marine Estate, where a four- to five-bedroom detached house, built in the Twenties, would cost between £600,000 and £900,000. Marine Parade and Warren Road are the most sought-after in an area popular with commuters for its proximity to the three Ss (sea, station and shops) plus the well-thought of Westleigh St Paul's junior school.
"Leigh-on-Sea is very reminiscent of somewhere like Blackheath," says David McNeilly, director of Ashleigh Stone estate agents. "It is very boutique-y, with a village feel and a good community. There is an abundance of pubs, restaurants and bars, and little quirky shops. We have very few of the big chains, and there is a really good café culture."
...Quite right too! Thanks for reading.
Josh
A recent Halifax survey anointed Leigh-on-Sea the UK's second best coastal location (after Christchurch in Dorset), and it is easy to see why. The town boasts London's nearest beach, and Old Leigh, with its cobbled streets and clapboard cottages, is simply lovely.
If it is cute factor you are after, then a small fisherman's cottage in the old town is selling for between £220,000 and £250,000, while a little further out - but still within the conservation area - a three-bedroom Edwardian semi would cost between £350,000 and £380,000.
The old town has a small but sandy beach and a lively arts scene with an annual free folk festival, a regatta and the Leigh Art Trail where local and invited international artists show their work in the area's many shops and cafés. Unsurprisingly there are many excellent seafood restaurants in town, although a lot of the original cockle sheds have been converted into dinky houses.
The most popular suburbs include the Marine Estate, where a four- to five-bedroom detached house, built in the Twenties, would cost between £600,000 and £900,000. Marine Parade and Warren Road are the most sought-after in an area popular with commuters for its proximity to the three Ss (sea, station and shops) plus the well-thought of Westleigh St Paul's junior school.
"Leigh-on-Sea is very reminiscent of somewhere like Blackheath," says David McNeilly, director of Ashleigh Stone estate agents. "It is very boutique-y, with a village feel and a good community. There is an abundance of pubs, restaurants and bars, and little quirky shops. We have very few of the big chains, and there is a really good café culture."
...Quite right too! Thanks for reading.
Josh
Thursday 27 January 2011
Josh Bowers' Think Bubble
Hi Everyone, Josh here at Think Property HQ. My Estate Agency career is only two weeks old and already I am loving it! I will be posting a blog once or twice a week to give you an insight to what it is like to be a trainee Estate Agent.
It has all been happening in the office and it has been a very busy two weeks! This morning I did my first sign up for one of Kats deals which went well and hopefully the next one I do will be for one of my own deals!!
Need to crack on with some inspection reports now!
Time for a 4 o'Clock cuppa i reckon!
It has all been happening in the office and it has been a very busy two weeks! This morning I did my first sign up for one of Kats deals which went well and hopefully the next one I do will be for one of my own deals!!
Need to crack on with some inspection reports now!
Time for a 4 o'Clock cuppa i reckon!
Monday 24 January 2011
Check out our new blog
Hi everyone out there. After a couple of months of testing, our website designers have tweaked our blog page and we are now all systems go.
You will see over the next months lots and lots of hopefully, interesting, entertaining and educating news from our industry. So please to all who know and support us, pass on our blogs, contact us if you require any information or if you have any questions for the team, please let us know.
You can find this blog and our others on our page www.thinkpropertyuk.com/think-blog so please click on it and share it with one and all. If you subscribe to an RSS feeder then we have that too.
Thanks for your ongoing support.
Peter and Mark
You will see over the next months lots and lots of hopefully, interesting, entertaining and educating news from our industry. So please to all who know and support us, pass on our blogs, contact us if you require any information or if you have any questions for the team, please let us know.
You can find this blog and our others on our page www.thinkpropertyuk.com/think-blog so please click on it and share it with one and all. If you subscribe to an RSS feeder then we have that too.
Thanks for your ongoing support.
Peter and Mark
Tuesday 11 January 2011
We dont need Insurance ... do we ?
Morning all, well night time for you actually. I am on my final day in Queensland Australia and apart from 4 lovely hot days last week this area and about 100 miles North have had some devistating weather.
With the main highway between me and my airport flooded last night, I may be stuck here..... as annoying as this may be, I cant help but think about all the thousands of people that have been affected by these monsoon floods.
So I make a cup of tea and sit outside and read the local paper. The rain is coming down, not in cats and dogs but more like catteries and kennels. This is a proper storm.
Understandably the paper has page after page about the devastation and to add even more misery to these poor people some, infact lots arent insured !!! Why, are they lazy or admin adverse ? No,
It turns out that a little and in most cases very little small print clause in their insurance may result in over half of them not getting a penny from their insurance companies. They all have storm damage but storm damage is not flood damage. Clever big insurance companies.... Yep it seems that they are covered if their guttering leaks and causes a mini flood in their house, albiet that most of the pictures ive seen the water is above the guttering ! So to add even further suffering most of them are trying to slavage what they can and im sure that they havent even contemplated their insurance small print.
So, I find myself very close to this devastation and I cant help feel more conected to their plight than I may have done seeing it on the news for example in the UK, but the real devastation will continue for years while some of these poor people have to save and buy all of their possessions again that they thought their insurance had covered them for.
Do I like insurance, No. Do I want insurance, No.
Do I need insurance.... ? Absolutely Yes.
From a very wet Brisbane.
Peter
With the main highway between me and my airport flooded last night, I may be stuck here..... as annoying as this may be, I cant help but think about all the thousands of people that have been affected by these monsoon floods.
So I make a cup of tea and sit outside and read the local paper. The rain is coming down, not in cats and dogs but more like catteries and kennels. This is a proper storm.
Understandably the paper has page after page about the devastation and to add even more misery to these poor people some, infact lots arent insured !!! Why, are they lazy or admin adverse ? No,
It turns out that a little and in most cases very little small print clause in their insurance may result in over half of them not getting a penny from their insurance companies. They all have storm damage but storm damage is not flood damage. Clever big insurance companies.... Yep it seems that they are covered if their guttering leaks and causes a mini flood in their house, albiet that most of the pictures ive seen the water is above the guttering ! So to add even further suffering most of them are trying to slavage what they can and im sure that they havent even contemplated their insurance small print.
So, I find myself very close to this devastation and I cant help feel more conected to their plight than I may have done seeing it on the news for example in the UK, but the real devastation will continue for years while some of these poor people have to save and buy all of their possessions again that they thought their insurance had covered them for.
Do I like insurance, No. Do I want insurance, No.
Do I need insurance.... ? Absolutely Yes.
From a very wet Brisbane.
Peter
Sunday 9 January 2011
It must be true - It is written in the paper. Daily Mail 8th Jan 2011
Well I dont know how many of you are Daily Mail readers but there was an interesting article in yesterdays paper about the South East.......
If you live in the south-east of England and own a home you are king of the UK property market, according to research. Homes there are worth more than the combined property wealth of owners in Wales, the Midlands, Yorkshire and the north. Analysis shows the south-east, including London, has benefited the most during the boom years over the past decade and contains a third of all housing wealth in the UK. .....I met up today with a nice chap who sold his terraced house in London in 2007 for £400k (which he had no mortgage on) who has just bought a converted church quite close to me for £300k (down from £500k). I would say this sort of thing accounts for most of the property bought in this area. Probably 80% of the population here are from the south of England.
If you live in the south-east of England and own a home you are king of the UK property market, according to research. Homes there are worth more than the combined property wealth of owners in Wales, the Midlands, Yorkshire and the north. Analysis shows the south-east, including London, has benefited the most during the boom years over the past decade and contains a third of all housing wealth in the UK. .....I met up today with a nice chap who sold his terraced house in London in 2007 for £400k (which he had no mortgage on) who has just bought a converted church quite close to me for £300k (down from £500k). I would say this sort of thing accounts for most of the property bought in this area. Probably 80% of the population here are from the south of England.
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