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Whilst the housing market has undergone much change in recent years, with various legislation being introduced to smooth the process, moving house due to its very nature is likely to be a most testing time for buyer and seller alike. What can you do to improve your chances of a smooth and stress free sale?

Free market appraisal

Firstly, contact Daniel James for a free, no obligation market appraisal of your property in order to find out an approximate value of your home. If you wish, we will at no further expense offer you tips and helpful advice on the best way to present your property when selling, don't forget you only get one chance to make a first impression!

Personal service

We offer an unrivalled, personal service where we always put our customers first. So if you are looking to buy or sell a property in any of the North Beds villages - Daniel James is the perfect choice.

Dedicated account manager

Whether buying or selling, when you choose Daniel James you will enjoy a dedicated and personal 'one-to-one' level of service. This will ensure that you deal with the same person throughout your buying or selling experience, helping to ensure continuity so that you can be comfortable knowing that we will have a full and thorough understanding of your requirements at all times. We believe our personal and friendly, one-to-one service, helps build an important relationship, and ensures smoothness to the process - which means we can sell your home quickly and efficiently.

Property particulars

We go to great lengths to prepare the highest quality property particulars to promote your property. We will include as many full colour photographs as possible, as well as thorough descriptions to give as an accurate and detailed description as possible. It is our policy to ALWAYS send out first generation full colour property particulars - NEVER poor quality photocopies! We also include floorplans where required. Once the draft copy of the property particulars has been approved, we will commence distributing the details of your property within the market place. This distribution consists of a detailed matching process against all the applicants registered on our mailing list.

Website

We believe that our website is the most effective estate agency website in the area. It is updated several times daily and contains information on every property that we have for sale as well as information relating to the local area. The information includes numerous colour photographs, floor plans and full details of the property. We receive dozens of e-mails every day requesting further information or arranging viewings. If you would like the wording of your web advert changing in any way, please feel free to let us know and provided your suggestion does not breach the Estate Agents Misdescription Act, we can make the changes very quickly. We also advertise your property on a host of other internet sites including Right Move.   

For Sale boards

For Sale boards generate over 30% of our enquiries. People do drive round, even into cul-de-sacs and quiet roads, looking for property and often prefer to do this than visit agents' offices. So if you're serious about selling, have a board - they are provided at no extra cost.

Floorplans

We try to incorporate floor plans within our sales particulars wherever possible. Feedback from prospective purchasers tells us that the decision to incorporate floor plans within sales particulars has been extremely popular. Purchasers can see the layout at a glance and can go on to compare the overall floor area of different properties that they are considering purchasing. As well as incorporating the floor plan onto the sales particulars, each one is also posted onto our website.

Text messaging

Each time we list a new property we match it to the requirements of purchasers held on our database and send a text message to those for whom we have a mobile phone number. The message gives the price and a brief description of the property. If the prospective purchaser then wants more details of the property or wants to arrange to view it, they just need to call the office and the whole process has taken minutes rather than days.

Email

If we have the e-mail address of a registered purchaser, we will send information automatically about new instructions including colour photos, description, floor plan and room measurements via email.

Press advertising

The newspaper that we have had the most success with in the North Bedfordshire villages area, which is also used by most agents, is the Beds Times & Citizen, which is published each Thursday. From the outset we will guarantee to advertise your property frequently until your home is sold. We do not charge for advertising, unlike some of our competitors. Although it is the most visual sign to you, the vendor, of our efforts to attract a purchaser, press adverts are much less effective than people think. Serious buyers don't wait for the local newspaper to drop through the letterbox, they make daily contact with agents, look in windows and access websites. It is our policy to have a flexible approach to advertising. We can't commit to put your property in the paper every week as we wish to ensure that in each week's newspaper we have a full range of properties. You can be assured that our sales staff are trained to inform purchasers of every property that may be suitable, even if they only enquire about one particular property.

Office display

Because of the wide variety of charming and picturesque villages in the North Bedfordshire area, as well as the renowned school catchment areas - many visitors are drawn to the area. Many of these visitors call into our Harrold High Street office enquiring about properties on the market, and asking to be added to our database of buyers. As Daniel James are the only estate agents to have an office located in, and dedicated to selling properties in the North Bedfordshire villages your property will be displayed in our office, highly visible to this target audience.

Telephone sales

Every day our sales staff access our database of purchasers to match them with our available properties. In other words, whenever our phone is not ringing, we are making calls to prospective purchasers. It is these conversations that help us to fine tune their requirements. Purchasers often change their requirements during their search. This does not mean that they are not serious; it just means that they are adjusting their requirements to fit in with the reality of the marketplace. Nobody finds the perfect property which is why regular contact is essential.


                                         
                                         The Old Telephone Exchange, High Street, Harrold, Beds MK43 7DQ
                                                                       Telephone: 01234 721666
                                                                            Fax: 05601 265322
                                                                  Email: sales@danieljames.org.uk