Tread Carefully In The Housing Market

There are definite ways a sales person can increase their chances of securing a sale when conducting a viewing. This week I got the chance to put my skills to the test on our first £1million home.

We have found that we are getting more and more instructions at higher price ranges as sellers look for who is actually the best agent, rather than the ones who’ve been around the longest. Anyway I digress… £1million house just on the market and the first viewing was lined up immediately. As Imagine's owner I had promised the seller that I would accompany all viewings, as my experience was bound to make a difference. Cue the most embarrassing viewing I can ever recall.

I decided to start by showing them the garden; big mistake! The two house Labradors had been out marking their territory that morning; unfortunately the lush grass and morning dew hid this from me. Blissfully unaware as I crossed the lawn, I duly skidded, less than gracefully, through a particularly unpleasant remnant. Not wanting to admit my problem, I subtly wiped my shoes along any spare bit of grass I could find while their eyes were otherwise distracted.

I thought I'd pulled it off until we got back in the house and the full pungency of the aroma that now consumed me became evident and quickly filled the house. Forced to confess, I made my excuses for a dash to the cloakroom and a tidy up. Having rested my shoe precariously on the basin, I hunted for some wipes of some description, not noticing that my shoe had in fact slipped into the sink. This may not have been a problem were it not for the fact I had been running the tap in readiness of something to wipe up with.

By the time I returned to my shoe, it had water cascading out the top of it. I had no choice but to stick it back on and squelch my way round the rest of the viewing with the clients wondering what on earth the funny noise they kept hearing was. Honestly, it was like an episode of Mr Bean.

I think it goes to show that my experience had paid off as by some miracle the couple actually booked a second viewing (they probably wondered how it looked without some idiot prancing around) and who knows, by the time this goes to print we may actually have sold our first £million house. I don't think however that the owner or my staff will be letting me claim much glory for making the deal happen though!