In this episode, Mark talks to Joe about how he got a great price for his property which he recently sold. Full of insights, hints and tips about how to go about buying and selling your home in the current property market, this episode is a treasure-trove of information for anyone considering going on the same journey in 2023. As a mortgage advisor with many years of experience, and a director of House and Holiday Home Mortgages, Mark Stallard really does know what he's talking about when it comes to buying a home -- but this is the first time he's moved in seventeen years. Tune it to hear what he has to say about this -- and make notes! Transcript: So, I've taken over the podcast today. Well, it's a little bit of an impromptu recording, but you are in the process of moving home and …And I thought just hearing you talk about it, because you tell me every single day what's going on, which is really boring, not annoying at all.Yeah. I thought it'd be really good to actually hear your experiences. Cause you haven't moved in 17 years, have you? So, actually we're helping people do this stuff every single day of the week, but you are now going through it yourself. Okay, well now listen ladies and gentlemen, I didn't know this was going to happen, so bear with me.The story is, so every year Joe comes up to our house for Christmas and he keeps telling mum and I that we're rattling around and it’s time we move. I think he's after the Stallard fortune, but in January this year. I thought, yeah, Joe, you might have a point actually that we are spending a lot of money on energy as a lot of people are now, and um, that may be the catalyst for this.The next problem I had was to convince Mrs. Stallard that we actually needed to move because she said, well, I'm not rattling around so we need to convince Mrs. St that we need to move. And, but more importantly, where and to. and I just tended to be, you know, like you do. I tended to leave, flew a few properties across her bows, shake of the head, carry on watching the tv. Okay, that isn't going to work. And then I chanced on one in a town where Joe's mum and I actually met and married in devices in wheelchair, and I flew this across her and she said, I. So we have to persuade the estate agent, Dan, in Devises to let us look at it because the poor gentleman selling the property had been let down a couple of times and he didn't want tyre kickers, like the Stallards coming down, spending an hour of his time to say whether they liked it or not, because your house wasn't even on the market at this point. Was it? Our house wasn't on the market. So there's - in this fun podcast, there are lots of little life lessons hopefully that you'll pick up from me.So, the first message was, don't give up, because I then wrote a long email saying why Claire and I should go and look at this property. I was very persuasive. And what was, what was in that email? What did you say? Well, I, I basically said, look, we're not going to waste your time. If we like your property, we will go back and we will put our property straight on the market.Everybody says this, but we do own a very sellable property in a very sellable area in the Cotswolds. So, I was just persuasive and said, look, we're not going to waste your time. We're not going to mess you about. We'll come in, we'll go out, we'll take our shoes off, we'll wander about, the vendor wanted to show us round. And We'll listen to what you've got to say and if you could just give us 20 minutes. Hopefully it'll be beneficial for all parties. Well, it certainly was. We went down to devices, we looked at the property. I could tell because you know, if you're married for a long time, you know stuff. And I could tell that, that, that Claire liked the property very much so we went back to the agent in in town and told.The agent that we'd like to not put an offer in because we weren't in a position to do that, but we'd certainly be interested and we'd certainly put our property on the market very shortly. So I think the, the, so number point lesson than number one, don't give up. Lesson number two, find out what the other half wants.And I know that sounds obvious, but I actually didn't really realize that what Joe's mom wanted more than anything else was to be quite close to a town center. You know, we're just turning 65 now and we don't wanna be doing this again. This will be a last move. So, Listen to what your partner wants and really understand. Um, yeah. Obviously if you can make it, make it work between you, great. So we could, because I'm, I was happy as long as the property was in good order. That was a, another prerequisite of Claire's and also near to a town that we like and a town that we know, and friends that we know. We didn't really wanna move to an area where we knew no one, because that would be a new start. So this is all about a downsizing exercise. Okay. Interesting. And how's that going? Oh boy. Um, right. So ...
