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We advertised our house in Balsall Common with Elizabeth Davenport (ED) not only because of their excellent reputation but because although we have local estate agents nearby we wanted to attract buyers from further afield. This proved to be a good decision. ED's Managing Director, George Hartshorn, took a super set of photos and produced an excellent brochure, and the Kenilworth Branch Manager, Beth White then handled our sale.
Beth has been absolutely superb. She originally lived in the village and still has relations here so she was able to present our property both from a local perspective and from outside.
From day one it was obvious that she is very experienced, is extremely personable and loves her job so we had no hesitation in leaving her to handle our viewings whilst we made ourselves scarce.
Over many visits not once did she let us down. Backed by a very professional office team she always made sure we knew who was coming. For each viewing she arrived on time and phoned immediately afterwards to give us her assessment of the prospects before setting our alarm system and locking up.
Amazingly at the very first viewing we had an offer at our full asking price, but sadly, like others to follow, they couldn't proceed until they had sold their property.
As the economy picked up we found we were getting so many viewings that Beth recommended we restrict prospective buyers to 'proceedable only'. This cut the numbers down and shortly afterwards we accepted an offer,very close to our asking price from a couple who already had a buyer for their house. Being early summer this would give us time to make our own move, but after a couple of months their sale then fell through. Although they quickly found another buyer it would have left us trying to move in mid winter so we agreed with our buyers that they would wait until next Spring. Unfortunately illness has now intervened and it looks as if we won't now be able to move until later next year, but we hope our buyers who are renting meanwhile will stay with us.
Throughout all of this Beth has been extremely patient and supportive to both ourselves and our buyers, and we have no hesitation in recommended Elizabeth Davenport.... Read more
1st Oct 2024 (19 weeks ago)