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Editorial guides for sellers in Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding villages — how to choose an agent, how to price, how to present.
Selling
“How’s the market, Gemma?” It’s the question I’m asked most often — on valuations, at viewings, bumping into someone in town. My honest answer this September: challenging, but properties are absolutely still selling.
Selling
There's no single honest average to quote — anyone who gives you one figure is rounding off too much. There is, though, an honest timeline: five stages, and a clear picture of what stretches each one.
Selling
Every spring, the same advice repeats: list before the market floods. It isn't wrong — but it isn't the whole story either. What actually decides a good time to sell, month by month.
Selling
Before anyone signs an instruction, they deserve the whole bill — not just the headline fee. What selling a Tunbridge Wells home actually costs, line by line, and which of them you can control.
Selling
Asking prices fell 1.0% in July — five times the usual seasonal dip. Behind the headline sits a more useful set of numbers: correctly priced homes are selling in 36 days, and nearly three quarters of this year's sales never needed a reduction.
Selling
Months on the portals, viewings down to a trickle, and an agent who's stopped calling. A stuck listing is almost always a fixable signal, not a verdict — here's how to read it, and what a proper relaunch actually involves.
Selling
Buyers fall in love with a period home's character — then worry about its upkeep. Selling one well means doing both jobs at once: showing the romance, and answering the practical questions before they're asked.
Selling
The fortnight before launch is where the price is won or lost. A room-by-room read on what to do (and what not to do) before your home goes to market — written for the premium TW seller.
Selling
The questions to ask before you instruct, the answers a good agent should give without hesitation, and the warning signs that cost sellers tens of thousands.
Selling
Buyers shortlist your home in eight seconds on a phone screen. Why architectural photography materially changes price, time-to-offer and buyer mix — and how Kings Estates does it differently to standard estate-agency listings.