Friday, 28 June 2013

15 things that set Quick Move Properties apart...

...you won’t find this kind of service anywhere else!


To help you

Same day guide estimate

We know that speed is of the essence and you want to move quickly while your customer is keen. Although our formal offers will only be made following estate agent valuations of the property, in the meantime we provide you with a same-day guide price estimate.

Training

Feedback from our clients showed us that sales teams often did not feel confident promoting part exchange as they didn’t fully understand how the service worked. As a result, we now provide training sessions and materials to help you do this.

Marketing material

Quick Move Properties provides a full marketing pack to help you promote part exchange to your customers. This includes posters, window stickers, leaflets and leaflet stands – everything you need to catch attention at the point it is most needed.

Funded deposits

If necessary, we can arrange for exchange to happen before completion so that your customer has the funds available to put down a deposit on your park home or lodge.

Deferred top-ups

To help with cash flow, we can provide the finance upfront for you to top up the part exchange offer, meaning you don’t need to supply a penny!

Show home finance

We can purchase your first park home or lodge, getting that all important first sale on the books and giving you a model to demonstrate to your potential customers just how great park living can be.

Automatic updates

We keep you updated automatically at every step of the part exchange process so you will always know exactly what is happening. If there is anything that needs to be actioned by you, we will always let you know so that completion date goals are met.

Open days

We can attend your open days to explain part exchange, hand out marketing material and provide guide price offers to any potential customers.

Exhibitions

Quick Move Properties has a high-profile exhibition presence itself, but is always happy to provide staff to help you on your exhibition stand – explaining part exchange and helping people with their applications.

To help your vendor

Licence to occupy

We know it is difficult for your customers to move quickly, particularly as many of them are downsizing, so we offer two weeks free licence to occupy to give them the extra time to prepare.

Part exchange introduction

When we receive a part exchange application, we contact the vendor, introducing ourselves and taking as much time as they need to answer any questions they have about the part exchange process.

Dedicated contact

Each vendor that is passed on to Quick Move Properties is allocated a specific contact who will look after them right the way through the process, giving them important reassurance and making the service smooth and stress-free.

Updates

We keep the vendor fully informed at all stages of the completion process, so they feel involved and in control of the situation.

Completion date

We let you and the vendor set the completion date – whichever date you choose is the one we work to.

In addition to this, the team at Quick Move Properties is the friendliest, most professional and supportive group of people in the industry.

To find out more about how part exchange would help you increase your unit sales, give us a call for a no obligation chat on 01793 840931 or email px@quickmoveproperties.co.uk.

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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Help to buy - industry sledging has clouded consumer perception

In the property industry, we all have a pretty good idea of the ins and outs of the Help to Buy scheme, but Quick Move Properties decided to speak to the great British public to see if understanding of it has passed through to the man on the street…

Under the Help to Buy scheme, the state will guarantee up to 15% of a mortgage on homes worth up to £600,000. A second strand will see new or existing homeowners able to borrow a further 20% - if they raise a deposit of 5% - from the government on an interest-free basis. In total, £12bn worth of lending will be guaranteed by the government, but do those it is designed to help know about it?

We asked the first five people we came across in Newbury for their view on the scheme. Everyone had heard about it, but none had a clear idea of how it worked. Opinion was divided over whether it was a good or bad thing, with sledging from either side of the argument about whether it will create a property bubble clearly obstructing the key points of how the service works from percolating through.

It sounds like the government is using taxpayers’ money to prop up the property market at a time when banks don’t have a lot of confidence in it and encouraging even more people to jump into an overvalued market. I don’t think it’s a good idea as it will just maintain high prices, making life a misery for many and a wonderland for a few.
John, aged 47, from Sutton

I think it’s really good that the government are doing something to get the housing market moving again because we’re stuck in a situation where we need the bottom of the market to free up so we can move up the market ourselves. At the moment there seems to be very little movement to enable us to do that.
Stuart, aged 35, from Berkshire

It is a great idea to give people help to buy a house. It is getting to the point where it is so expensive that nobody was going to be able to buy a house without some kind of help.
Fiona, aged 41, from Newbury

I don’t really know that much about it because I bought my house a long time ago, but I was talking to someone last night who said the bubble is going to burst in London. They are helping everyone to buy and they are going to come unstuck with it. But I think if they want key workers in these big cities, like London, then they need to help them.
John, aged 67, from Windsor

There seems to be so many different schemes at the moment. I have heard of this Help to Buy scheme, as my son is looking into it. He has been looking at several of these types of things but they end up working out to be so expensive that he would never get his money back when he went on to sell the house.
Gloria, aged 65, from West London

So, what does this show us? For such schemes to succeed, they need to have a clear marketing message. The problem with this scheme is that it has created such a divided opinion and the industry is still arguing over whether it is a good idea or not. Unfortunately this is the negative message that people have picked up on, not the benefits or the opportunities.

Just imagine how much more successful these schemes would be if we all got behind them and concentrated on letting people know what is available to them and how they can access it, rather than dominating press coverage with negativity and doubt, stifling success from the very start.

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