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Hayes: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, vendors and buyers to take charge of their lives.
By Craig on May 18th, 2012I am reading the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (and the latest George RR Martin novel, but that’s not as relevant. A very interesting read, which makes me stand a little outside of myself and look at my personal life and also Hayes. Hayes is a great and growing company, with a strong residential lettings… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes enjoyed a record month in Lettings in April
By Craig on May 17th, 2012Hayes enjoyed a record revenue month in Lettings in April, 2012, lots of move-ins lots of lets. A testament to the hard work of the Lettings Team. Lots of late nights and long weekends at present (hence the recruitment of an additional full time member of staff). But Hayes has plenty of applicants at all… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Estate Agency: Herefordshire Sales
By Craig on May 16th, 2012Hayes estate agency arm had a good day yesterday with sales agreed on Oak Crest and Old Barn at Berrow, Hayes was also negotiating sales on three other properties ranging from £195,000 through £350,000, to £750,000. Hayes is expecting an offer on another property on Thursday and first and second viewings are plentiful at present. With… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Estate Agency: Sales Progression: Going Above and Beyond…
By Craig on May 15th, 2012At Hayes we have a dedicated Sales Progressor in the form of Petra Curry. It is Petra’s role to work with vendors, buyers and solicitors to progress an agreed sale through from offer to exchange of contracts. It is a very stressful and difficult job, not because Hayes sells complicated properties (we do), not because… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Estate and Letting Agency, Growing in a Difficult Market
By Craig on May 11th, 2012Hayes Sales and Lettings (known as Hayes) is 7 weeks away from year end. Like for like comparison of Hayes estate agency arm and Hayes letting agency arm has shown strong growth in both areas. Overall anticipated revenue at year end will be 33% higher than at year end June 2011. Clearly we are all pleased… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes: Seasonality of £1,000,000 + Properties
By Craig on May 10th, 2012Hayes sells period, country properties, a huge subset being equestrian properties. Estate agency is a seasonal business, with more activity and sales taking place in the peak months of Easter to Mid-July, then a lull until end of August, a second resurgence in September and October (November is weather dependent). Poor sales months tend to… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Website: Part 3 Video Tours: Help Sell Properties
By Craig on May 9th, 2012Hayes is a huge fan of appropriate video tours and a vehement opponent of ‘bad’ video tours. I have been unlucky enough to view some video tours which have left me queasy with motion sickness (the fisheye, spinning lense approach). Equally I know that Hayes has sold properties, because the video tours highlighted the excellent features… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Estate Agency Websites Part 2: One Click
By Craig on May 8th, 2012Those searching Hayes Website for properties to buy can click once and then start to view the details of Hayes properties, this compares to many of Hayes competitors, where it is several clicks before you can even start to view properties. Hayes then presents relatively large professional photographs. This is to help the potential buyer, decide… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes: Estate Agency Websites: Taking Houses to our Customers
By Craig on May 7th, 2012Hayes website is largely well regarded by vendors, purchasers, landlords and tenants. It is not perfect, but it is relatively easy to use, with lots of relevant information appropriately presented. I am conscious of its limitations and its imperfections and slowly the website is tweaked to improve it. As you would expect, I look at… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Lettings Department: Letting Fast, more Properties Required.
By Craig on May 6th, 2012Hayes is enjoying superb growth in our Lettings Department, partly because the team of Janet Weston, Clemetine Sandbach and Araminta White works so hard (an additional full time person is joining the team within the next few weeks) but also because Hayes Letting Department is known for its strong marketing. Properties to let through Hayes… Read the rest of this entry »
