John Holden, Author at Fleet, Hartley Wintney, Odiham McCarthy Holden Estate Agents

You Wouldn’t think it was possible in August!

September 8, 2023 by John Holden

Given the generally negative media commentary about the residential property market, anyone would think that house sale are almost non existent.

The problem with media reporting and statements from leading lenders is that they base the facts on house sales completions recorded at Land Registry, so the information may be accurate but it reflects marketing conditions at the time of the sale being negotiated some 3 or 4 months prior to the completions.

So is it time to think again on the real state of the residential house market?

August at McCarthy Holden saw a very high level of house sales transactions go through to exchange / completion, setting the scene for what we believe will be a busy Autumn. The exchanged / completion transactions in August demonstrated reasonable market conditions across a wide price spectrum, and to support that statement with facts you can see below a summary of the transactions from just three of our local branches.

Proof Positive

From £250,000 to £2,500,000 the house sales exchanges were most definitely on the move in and around Fleet, Hartley Wintney and Odiham. Shortlist below, so take a quick scroll through.

And of course this sales activity gave way to the occasional celebration

Pauline Cox’s carrot and apple muffins

July 7, 2023 by John Holden

“These muffins are naturally sweetened by the grated carrot, apple and cinnamon,” says functional nutritionist Pauline Cox.

“This fibre fest will keep you feeling full and satisfied without a blood-sugar spike.”

Carrot and apple muffins

Ingredients:

(Makes 12)

90g coconut oil, melted, plus extra for greasing

5 eggs

375g ground almonds

150g sultanas

90g walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped, plus a few extra to serve

3tsp baking powder

3tsp ground cinnamon

1tsp salt

375g carrots, grated

375g apples, grated (green apples for a lower carb content)

Zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lemon

Coconut or natural yoghurt, to serve

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C fan and grease a 12-hole muffin tin.

2. In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs and combine with the melted coconut oil.

3. Add the ground almonds, sultanas, walnuts or pecans, baking powder, cinnamon and salt to the liquid egg mix, along with the grated carrots and apples and mix together to form a thick batter. Add in a quarter of the lemon juice (use the rest in drinking water) and half of the lemon zest.

4. Spoon the thick mixture into your greased muffin tray. Bake for 22-25 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.

5. Serve with a dollop of coconut or natural yoghurt, a pecan or a walnut and sprinkle with the remaining lemon zest.

Market Insight – June 2023

July 7, 2023 by John Holden

High levels of contracts exchanged on house sales in June

June was a bumper month for house sales going through to exchange of contracts, which is good news because during every month in 2023 when we start to write a quick blog about the house market, we expect to be reporting a house market in trouble because of the relentless UK media reporting of house prices falling and interest rates rising. The facts and experience from the shop floor is of a house market showing remarkable resilience half way through 2023.

House Prices?

It is clear from the volume of house sales going through to exchange of contracts that we have buyers and the market is in better shape than you would perhaps think.

Yes house prices have levelled off and in some sectors there has been a small reduction in values, however this is minimal and the buyer demand remains very good. House sellers are now more realistic on price if they are serious about moving home, so we have a more balanced market with buyers and sellers more aligned on pricing, which in some part has impacted on the fact that house sales productivity at McCarthy Holden are performing better than last year.

The Wider Picture

When the Nationwide recently reported the annual rate of house price growth as -3.5% to end of June, the lead their report with the heading ‘House prices relatively stable in June’

We need to remember that these sums represent the UK wide position, so in our area of operation in the Hampshire / Surrey / Berkshire borders house prices have held up well with some sectors only slightly lower compared to a year ago.

This resilience in the market is no doubt underpinned by the labour market conditions, which remain solid and also household balance sheets appear in relatively good shape because we get few if any house sales occurring because of financial stress.

The residential letting market is in very good shape with plenty of tenant demand, especially around the £4,000 p.c.m. price point where properties are being snapped up by eager tenants. If you need market insight at any time in 2023, just go to our web site and ask your nearest branch for a free no obligation house price appraisal.

Pauline Cox’s Roquefort, rocket and pink grapefruit salad

July 4, 2023 by John Holden

By Katie Wright, PA:

“As colourful in nutrients as it is in appearance, this easy-to-construct salad is a powerhouse of goodness!” says functional nutritionist Pauline Cox.

Roquefort, rocket and pink grapefruit salad

Ingredients:

(Makes one salad)

90g rocket

100g Roquefort (ideally raw), cut into chunks

1 ripe avocado, peeled, stoned and sliced

2 pink grapefruits, segmented

A drizzle of raspberry blush vinaigrette

A handful of chopped fresh coriander

A handful of pecans, chopped

A handful of sunflower seeds

For the vinaigrette:

100g raspberries (10-12 juicy raspberries)

60ml extra virgin olive oil

Juice of 1 lime

20ml balsamic vinegar

20ml beet kvass (optional, but ideal)

1tsp salt (ideally beetroot salt)

Method:

1. To make the vinaigrette, add all of the ingredients to a blender and combine. Transfer to a clean glass jar with a lid, keep in the fridge and use within three days.

2. Lay the rocket leaves onto two plates, adding chunks of Roquefort, slices of avocado and pink grapefruit segments, and drizzle over the raspberry blush vinaigrette.

3. Sprinkle over the chopped coriander, pecans and sunflower seeds.

Hungry Woman by Pauline Cox is published by Ebury Press, priced £27. Photography by Luke Albert. Available Now.

The best scented plants to enhance your balmy summer evenings

July 4, 2023 by John Holden

Now that many of us have given our barbecues an airing and are enjoying the longer evenings, it’s wonderful to take in the variety of scents which pervade in the garden when the sun goes down.

Many plants actually increase their perfume production at night to attract moths to pollinate them.

Choose your plants carefully, and you can have a wonderfully scented garden for much of the summer.

There are many shrubs – mock orange (Philadelphus), shrub roses and lavender – which are all easy to obtain, along with fragrant annuals, which make great additions to patio pots and raised beds.

Even if you only grow some traditional sweet peas to cut and place in a vase on your outside table, guests will be able to enjoy a whiff of their heady scent.

Here are some of the best fragrant plants for enjoying as the sun sets…

1. Night-scented stocks (Matthiola)

These pretty, old-fashioned annuals reach their fragrant peak at twilight, where they become moth magnets. Reaching up to 60cm in height, they produce small, four-petalled flowers in shades of white, lilac or pink and are ideal at the front of an informal scheme or added to container displays. They like full sun in a sheltered position and moist, well-drained soil.

2. Evening primrose (Oenothera)

If you’re a wildflower fan, these fragrant bowl-shaped yellow flowering beauties are excellent for pollinators, and also produce their optimum scent in the evening.

Depending on the variety you choose, they can grow to up to 1m, ideal for the middle of a border, or to just 30cm, better for a container. Grow them in full sun or semi-shade. They don’t require much attention apart from watering during prolonged dry periods, and should flower from June to September

3. Mock orange (Philadelphus)

This is among the most fragrant of flowering shrubs, ideally given plenty of space to spread out, where its white blooms can emit their delicious scent reminiscent of orange blossom – which will pervade the whole garden on balmy summer evenings.

Single-flowered varieties are great for bees and butterflies and you can also get types which are suitable for large containers, such as ‘Manteau d’Hermine’, ideally placed near a window or door on the patio. They are easy to grow, withstanding poor soil and wind, but generally not shade.

4. Nicotiana (tobacco plant)

Hanging their flowers sleepily during the day, especially in really bright sunlight, the old-fashioned varieties of these annuals come to life in the evening when their blooms open to emit a sweet scent – so make sure you place them in containers near where you are sitting.

Some, such as Nicotiana langsdorffii, will grow to 1.5m so may be better in the border or secured to a garden trellis, while others, such as the beautiful ‘Lime Green’, grow to around 60cm and are ideal for a pot. If you want flowers which open up during the day, go for the newer strains, but the old-fashioned ones will give you more perfume.

5. Lilies

These are guaranteed to give you fragrance from mid-summer onwards, whether you want a dazzling splash of colour on your patio with showstopping varieties like the pink oriental ‘Stargazer’, which likes full sun and will need staking. Or more subtle hues which pack a fragrant punch, such as Lilium longiflorum, with its long, white, trumper-shaped flowers.

This one is best grown in large pots (it grows to 1m) as it is not totally hardy. Or try Lilium regale, a trumpet lily growing to 1m, which lights up a summer border

Where to place them

Perfume is most apparent in calm conditions, as wind will carry the scent away in the air, so it’s best to plant fragrant climbers in a sheltered spot or on a partially enclosed patio.

Consider combinations

If you want fragrant perennials in your borders, go for combinations of those with scented flowers and those with fragrant foliage to complement each other.

Some scented plants are not spectacular but will bring out the best in a border when planted with colourful non-perfumed plants. Try growing lemon-scented verbena and pineapple sage (Salvia elegans, whose foliage releases a pineapple-like scent when you brush past it) in the border amid unscented blooms, and you will have the best of both worlds.

Locate leafy scents

Plants with scented foliage include scented leaved pelargoniums, Achillea filipendulina, catmint (nepeta), Monarda didyma and the lemon balm Melissa officinalis `All Gold’, while those with perfumed flowers include Iris unguicularis, Phlox paniculata, Hosta `Honeybells’ and many varieties of dianthus.

Of course, plants with heavier scents may dominate, so keep richly fragrant roses, lilies, lavender and other strongly aromatic plants separate from those with more subtle perfumes.

Pretty garden plants you didn’t know you could eat

July 4, 2023 by John Holden

By Hannah Stephenson:

Garden designer, grower and social media star Lucy Hutchings, of She Grows Veg fame, has been showing followers the prettiest vegetables to add colour and form to ornamental borders.

“The best way to approach edibles within a planting scheme is to stop thinking of them as edibles and approach them as you would any other plants in your border. Look at height, colour and texture and vary that through the border,” says the designer, who has 171k followers on Instagram.

“You might want some frilly things, spiky things, architectural things, broad-leaved things – and you can achieve all of these textures and looks through edible plants as well.”

At the recent Gardeners’ World Live event, Hutchings launched She Grows Veg, a fully female design company. In The Secret Homestead show garden, she demonstrated how easy it is to integrate flowers and edibles and still make everything look beautiful.

With a background in fashion design, Hutchings explains: “Grow your own is almost always portrayed in a homespun, traditional, quite humble and slightly apologetic way. My interest lies firmly in edible plants and I never understood why there was this divide in approach.”

She aims to show people who love flowers and beautiful borders how to embrace the idea that veg can also be gorgeous.

Her show garden was filled with popular ornamental plants mixed with food crops which people might not realise are edible, including hostas, roses, cannas, dahlias, Oxalis triangularis and colocasia – which are traditional food crops in other parts of the world.

Here she suggests a selection of edible plants which will provide colour and texture to any ornamental border.

Striped japonica corn

Ornamental varieties of vegetable which blend in beautifully with a flower border include striped japonica corn (which can be used for popcorn), with candy cane striped foliage. “Popcorn is such an easy snack and you can get a lot off a plant,” says Hutchings.

Hostas

“These are very popular in East Asia, where people eat new shoots as they emerge. Take them from an established crown and give the plant a chance to bounce back. They taste similar to asparagus and you don’t get the woodiness.”

Japanese flowering kale

“Japanese flowering kale is sometimes referred to as ornamental kale, but you can eat it. It looks like a big purple flower, with white/green around the outside, fading to pink and bright vivid neon purple.

“All kales are really hardy and you can harvest it year round, sowing it twice a year, once in late summer to grow through winter and again in early spring to grow through summer.” Serve it as you would other green veg.

“I have kales spaced through the border, almost treating it like a great big flower as opposed to a foliage plant.”

Red orach

“This featured in quite a lot of the gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show,” Hutchings observes. “It’s commonly seen in borders and is sometimes referred to as French (or mountain) spinach. You eat it in exactly the same way as spinach despite the fact that it has really vivid purple leaves.

“Add colour through foliage and stem colour as well as flowers. Your greens don’t actually have to be green. Red and purple vegetables tend to be better for you because the red and purple colour is from an antioxidant called anthocyanin which is the same antioxidant that makes blueberries a superfood.”

Colocasia (elephant’s ears)

“A lot of people grow Colocasia as houseplants, but very few realise that it is actually taro, a starchy root you often get in Chinese restaurants – in Asia, it is very commonly eaten.”

Oxalis triangularis (purple shamrock)

“Again, this is a popular houseplant, but the leaves are really delicious, with a sour apple flavour. It’s a beautiful plant which is easy to grow and the leaves can be added to salads for a fruity taste. I’ve also seen it as a garnish on desserts.”

Dahlias

“These are a root crop, originally imported from Europe as a starchy food crop. If you lift them at the end of the season, use some of the tubers for eating. Cook them as you would a new potato – they have a slightly lemony taste. Flower petals of dahlias are also edible.”

Sunflowers

“These give you a lot of bang for your buck. Not many people realise how many ways you can eat a sunflower. They think that you just have to roast the seeds and they’re fiddly. But you can also eat the unopened flowerbuds as you would an artichoke head.

“If you harvest a sunflower head when the seeds have swelled but before the seed coating hardens too much, you can roast and eat the heads like you would corn on the cob.”

WARNING – This article was supplied by the Press Association. Check the facts / information and make sure a plant is edible, please consult an expert.

Resilient House Market On The Move

April 26, 2023April 26, 2023 by John Holden

Who would have thought it!

April trading showed a house market defying the doom and gloom peddled in the Media since last year, defying the odds and performing better than expected given the backdrop of the UK economy.

House Buyers Positivity

There are hints of the attitudes that house buyers displayed back in the Covid days, when the house market took off because people wanted to get on with their life’s ambitions determined not to let the disruption of the pandemic get in the way.

Today, the attitude of house buyers seems to be one of pursuing their house buying goals, negotiating cautiously but importantly being decisive and not waiting for the next piece of economic news to impact on their focused approach to house buying.

April Showers Didn’t Dampened April Sales

Take these examples of a properties going to the market, achieving excellent interest in today’s market, and finding perfect outcomes.

North Warnborough, Hampshire – This character 2 bedroom property was put to the open market in April at a guide of £675,000 and the marketing generated multiple buyer interest, resulting in a sale being agreed 5% above the guide price.

In the Blue Triangle area of Fleet Hampshire, this traditional property hot spot has seen several house sale agreed in April, provide excellent examples of a fast moving market.

During the first week of marketing at a guide of £1,250,000 the buyer response to the property below was excellent, resulting in five viewings in a matter of days and a sale agreed shortly thereafter.

Also in the Blue Triangle area of Fleet and nearer the top end of the market, the property below was sold (stc) to a cash buyer in April on a guide of £1,675,000.

And yet again in the Blue Triangle in Fleet, the property below went to market at a £1,100,000 guide and was snapped up with 24 hours.

The country and equestrian market is also on the move, as per the example below. This fine house in Finchampstead went under offer in April on a guide of £2,250,000.

These properties provide excellent examples of a house market still very much on the move!

In our area of operation on the Hampshire / Berkshire borders, house prices have held up well with some sectors only slightly lower compared to a year ago. Fears of a major downturn in prices are overdone and with levels of supply improving house sales are being agreed at an increasing rate. This is supported by the fact that our first quarters trading results show a 6.75 increase on the house sales front and a 7% on the house lettings front when contrasted to the same period last year. The resilience in the residential house market continues.

A strong labour market and medium term likelihood of falling mortgage rates are supporting good buyer activity levels and house sellers are becoming more realistic on price if they are serious about moving home, hence we have a more balanced market with buyers and sellers more aligned on where they see pricing.

If you are thinking of a house sale, contact our nearest branch and arrange a free no obligation valuation.

April Property & Lifestyle Magazine Out Now

April 12, 2023 by John Holden

Spring House Moving Activity On The Up!

In our March magazine we said that many home owners decided to tap into the early new year buyer demand, resulting in new properties coming to the market at a good level.

So, levels of supply have recovered and buyers and sellers are not miles apart on where they see pricing and this means house sales are being agreed at an increasing rate.

In this magazine edition we are pleased to show a selection of some of the new to the market properties so we hope you will enjoy exploring the pages which showcase some of the finest properties available on the open market.

You can see the full 68 page magazine by clicking this link or the image below.

2023 First Quarter Property Trading

As indicated earlier, levels of supply have recovered and house sales are being agreed at an increasing rate. This is supported by the fact that our first quarters trading results show a 6.75 increase on the house sales front and a 7% on the house lettings front when contrasted to the same period last year.

The resilience in the residential house market continues. House prices have levelled off, but because the market is more balanced with buyers and sellers more aligned on where they see pricing, then house sales productivity is actually up on the previous year in our area of operation on the Hampshire/Surrey/Berkshire borders.

Editorial Features & Property For Sale

We hope you will enjoy reading some of the editorial features we have pulled together for our readers, including recipes from cookery writer Kim-Joy, an interview with Alex Jones, some interesting insight keeping chickens and Su Scott’s thoughts and recipes on Korean cuisine.

For the super car enthusiast there is a first drive review of Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica by motoring correspondent Jack Evans.

A few samples of our property and editorial content is shown below – just click on an image to read the article / see the property details.

Easter Opening / Closing

April 7, 2023 by John Holden

We are closed today Good Friday respecting the classic meaning of the day, we are open as normal on Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday and open as normal on Tuesday and thereafter.

Career Opportunities In 2023

April 20, 2023February 17, 2023 by John Holden

During 2023 we anticipate that we will be looking to recruit both inexperienced and experienced personnel, so we invite those who are thinking of a career change to contact McCarthy Holden with a CV summary.

McCarthy Holden operate on the Hampshire / Surrey / Berkshire borders. We are well known in towns and villages such as Fleet, Hartley Wintney and Odiham, where we provide house sales and lettings services.

For Those In Retail Or Similar Service Industries

Estate Agency is a career which allows your character and people skills to flourish, and it rewards you well for your sales productivity. So not surprisingly many people who have developed customer service skills in retail or hospitality, move up to a new career which stretch communication, sales and customer service skills further.

For Those Already Working In Estate Agency

If you are already an estate agency with one year or more experience, then we could have a career opportunity for you, so do please due get in touch whatever your current circumstances. Many of our team have worked with McCarthy Holden for 15 years or more, so we look to good long term working relationships with our staff.

Your Personality – Our Philosophy

We want top sales performers, but they must achieve their results by building good customer relationships and applying a work ethic which never loses track of the fact that we are working in the best interests of our clients (vendors and landlords). Always underpinned with honesty and professionalism which we believe should form the backbone of corporate service delivery.

Being a top sales performer is not about techniques, but it is all about Identifying the best buyers capable of actually buying, discovering their personal motivations and needs then matching those needs to the property resources and ultimately negotiating a house sale deal. Sometimes that investment in time with buyers and seller will yield results in weeks, sometimes it takes years.

If your background in sales has taught you inappropriate sales techniques that are at odds with our philosophy of treating all our customers with courtesy and a positive service attitude, inexorably intertwined with honesty and professionalism, then don’t apply.

What To Do Next

Simply send an email to Jill Wood who will treat your enquiry in confidence. You can email here.

Is The House Market In Trouble?

January 12, 2023 by John Holden

The UK media headlines are full of alarming headlines with predications about house prices falling on 2023, so how has the market shaped up in early January on the Hampshire / Surrey / Berkshire borders

There can be no doubt that the upward movement in house prices has stopped and flattened out, however, that doesn’t mean the market has slowed. House sale transactions are at a good level and there is currently a remarkable resilience in the house market.

We should also remember that when intuitions such as the Halifax or the BBC make statements such as UK house prices will drop by 8%, they are suggesting this for the UK as a whole and not specifically Hampshire / Surrey / Berkshire borders. Also, if you look back on house price predictions in the past they are typically found to be wrong.

There can be no doubt however that the days of constant upward movements in house prices are gone for the short to medium term, despite buyers still being in a competitive environment because there is so little property for sale on the supply side. The cost of living will make buyers more cautious so price sensitivity will be a factor, but the house market will remain in good shape.

Some Facts About January 2023 House Sales

To demonstrate how resilient the market is and how the buyer demand remains very high, just take a look at the following properties that have exchanged contracts in the last five days. This wouldn’t happen in a flaky market because fewer buyers would remain committed to their house purchase.

The following is a selection of properties that have proceed to exchange in the last five days, despite the backdrop of media commentary. The price range is as impressive as the amount of buyers that have remained committed to their individual purchase plans.

The Blue Triangle Fleet – Exchanged c. £1.6m.
Hazeley Lea – Exchanged c. £1.6m
Hartley Wintney – Exchanged c. £900,000
North Warnborough – Exchanged c. £1.3m.
Odiham – Exchanged c. £875,000
Hartley Wintney – Exchanged c. £695,000
Odiham – Exchanged c. £800,000
Odiham – Exchanged c. £600,000
Fleet – Exchanged c. £800,000
Fleet – Exchanged c. £700,000

Fleet, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £1.6m.)

Hazeley Lea, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £1.6m.)

Hartley Wintney, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide £900,000)

North Warnborough, Hampshire – Exchanged / Completes This Week (guide c. £1.3m.)

Odiham, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £875,000)

Hartley Wintney, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £695,000)

Odiham, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £800,000)

Odiham, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £600,000)

Fleet, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £800,000)

Fleet, Hampshire – Exchanged This Week (guide c. £700,000)

By any standards most would agree that this is an impressive performance demonstrating the strength of buyer demand.

We believe the house prices we are experiencing in December 2022 will be around the same level by December 2023, if the current supply side levels remain in place and the cost of borrowing doesn’t increase significantly.

If you need market insight at any time in 2023, just go to our web site and ask your nearest branch for a free no obligation house price appraisal.

December Magazine With Market Insight

December 24, 2022 by John Holden

What an extraordinary year, defined on a global level with Mr Putin’s destruction and misery when he decided to invade Ukraine in February, introducing unimaginable suffering to the Ukrainian people and also introducing a backdrop of uncertainty across economic activities from stock markets to property markets around the world.

In the first few months the prospect of a stock market and property market downturn had to be considered, but this didn’t happen in the UK and………. You can read the 2022 review by clicking the image below which will take you through to our online digital Magazine In The Country & Town.

Browsing through our property and lifestyle magazine you will be able to see some of the finest property in the area, available to buy or rent as well as read some engaging editorial content.

Some articles are shown below and a click will take you through.

We wish all of our clients / customers / suppliers and magazine readers a very happy Christmas and an uplifting 2023

Impossipuzzles

November 13, 2022 by John Holden

Here is the answers to the Impossipuzzle in the November issue of In The Country and Town magazine

1 “Was that your new maths teacher you were talking to?” Greg asked. “She looked a bit young, is she in her twenties?”

Betty smiled. “That’s right, Dad, and she’s lots of fun. Today she told us her age is one less than four times the product of its digits. That’s our homework.”

How old?

ANSWER: Teacher aged 23 years old.

2 When Pam was a year older than Susie was when Pam was half as old as Susie was when Pam was as old as Susie is, Susie was a third as old as Pam was when Susie was ten years younger than Pam is now.

At least one of them is in her ’teens, and of course we have taken ages in completed years.

So how old is Susie?

ANSWER: Susie 12 years old (Pam 14).

3 “The twins? They are the youngest of my sister Jane’s children,” said Joe.

“What about her other three kids?” asked Andy.

“Well, they’re spaced one year apart, the youngest one a year older than the twins,” Joe replied. “It’s odd that the total of all the kids’ ages is exactly the square of the age of the twins.”

How old were the twins?

ANSWER: The twins were 6 years old.

4 Sam seemed to be digging up his square tiled patio when I dropped in on him yesterday. “No, only making it smaller,” he told me. “I’m removing the outer tile all the way round. That’s taking away one tile less than the total that will remain.”

The tiles were square and all the same size, so how many would he be removing?

ANSWER: 24 tiles to be removed.

5 “Homework?” Fred asked.

“Sort of, Dad,” he replied. “I’ve been figuring out a number that’s the square of its first pair of digits added to twice the square of the other pair.”

Fred jotted down some figures on a scrap of paper. “You mean like 2832, twice the square of 32 plus the square of 28?”

“Yes, but I found a different number.”

What was it?

ANSWER: Doug’s number was 7232.

6 “You can have all my change if you tell me how much is in my left pocket,” said Uncle Joe. “I’ve got twice as much in there as I have in my right pocket,”

“Let’s have a clue,” said Cathy.

“Okay,” her uncle replied. “It’s just one and a half times as much as I’d have in my right pocket if I transferred 37 p’s to it from my left pocket.”

Well?

ANSWER: £2.22 in Joe’s left pocket.

You Wouldn’t think it was possible in August!

Proof Positive

Pauline Cox’s carrot and apple muffins

Market Insight – June 2023

House Prices?

The Wider Picture

Pauline Cox’s Roquefort, rocket and pink grapefruit salad

The best scented plants to enhance your balmy summer evenings

Pretty garden plants you didn’t know you could eat

Resilient House Market On The Move

House Buyers Positivity

April Showers Didn’t Dampened April Sales

April Property & Lifestyle Magazine Out Now

Spring House Moving Activity On The Up!

2023 First Quarter Property Trading

Editorial Features & Property For Sale

Easter Opening / Closing

Career Opportunities In 2023

For Those In Retail Or Similar Service Industries

For Those Already Working In Estate Agency

Your Personality – Our Philosophy

What To Do Next

Is The House Market In Trouble?

Some Facts About January 2023 House Sales

December Magazine With Market Insight

Impossipuzzles

Sales

Lettings

Estate Agents

Testimonials

When is your preferred availability? (TICK ALL THAT APPLY)

Proof Positive

House Prices?

The Wider Picture

House Buyers Positivity

April Showers Didn’t Dampened April Sales

Spring House Moving Activity On The Up!

2023 First Quarter Property Trading

Editorial Features & Property For Sale

For Those In Retail Or Similar Service Industries

For Those Already Working In Estate Agency

Your Personality – Our Philosophy

What To Do Next

Some Facts About January 2023 House Sales

Find a Property

Sales

Lettings

Estate Agents

Testimonials

When is your preferred availability? (TICK ALL THAT APPLY)