I 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 »
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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, 2012Hayes 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 Equestrian Properties For Sale in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire
By Craig on May 5th, 2012Hayes is enjoying an excellent year to date, after the traditional slow start, Hayes now has 89 sales properties listed on our website www.hayesgb.com with 23 SSTC which is just over 25%. Hayes estate agency arm is negotiating a number of sales at present, although some are more likely to close than others. Hayes has… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Estate and Letting Agency Awards: Helping to Improve Hayes
By Craig on May 3rd, 2012Hayes came third in the West Midlands in the prestigous ESTAS in both Lettings and Estate Agency. As previously highlighted, Hayes were disappointed by this result. Hayes has now received the anonymous feedback and it shows that Hayes are rated very highly in terms of honesty and professionalism and marketing, but we had lower scores… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes Estate Agency Sales: April 2012
By Craig on May 2nd, 2012Hayes agreed 13 sales in April 2012, ranging from just over £100,000 to just under £1,250,000. 4 Sales were of properties that had previously been unsuccessfully marketed by other estate agents. Hayes let 12 properties in April ranging in value from £1,800 pcm to £585 pcm. Hayes is letting and selling a wide range of… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes New Estate Agency and Letting Agency Instructions in 2012
By Craig on May 1st, 2012Hayes has enjoyed a strong start to 2012 both in terms of agreed Lets and agreed sales. For a long time I have been stating that Hayes could let more properties if only we could get more stock and year on year Hayes Lettings has enjoyed superb growth, and Hayes Estate Agency has enjoyed a strong… Read the rest of this entry »
Hayes: Letting Vs Selling
By Craig on April 27th, 2012Hayes was asked to value a property today for sale, but we may end up letting it out. Why? Because in Hayes opinion it is the better option for the vendors. Hayes will happily sell the property or indeed happily let the property, but it is our duty of care to do the best for our… Read the rest of this entry »
