starstarstarstarstar over 9 years ago
The maze of property market and the one who navigated me through it.
Ah ! the property market in modern times !
It became so complex nowadays , with all those legal requirements , paper works , contract and so on and on , as if nobody trusts anybody anymore , I miss those times when all you had to do was to build a fence around the land in the middle of the field and claimed it as yours.
Not that I was born in those times , or those times have ever really existed , but wouldn't that be refreshingly simple ?
I recently sold a property of mine by an auction for the first time ever in my life.
The whole process was navigated through for me by Michael Jonas ( of Gary Peer & Associates Estate Agent ) who had been giving me advices about the property market even long before I had a property to sell.
Why ?
It is a long story , I might write a book about it one day.
Now , when you put a property on the market to sell , you may do it up , engage a ' stylist ' to decorate the place , advertise on the papers , and on the internet and so on.
But the effects of all those activities and preparations are never really quantifiable , in terms of how they will make the eventual purchaser of your property pay outrageously high price you secretly hope for.
It is , I imagine , like fishing.
You don't know whether fishes are in the water ( if the water is rough or murky that is ) or not , but if you spend enough time fishing after having done all the right preparations , you shall maximize the probability of catching a big one.
So , that is what I believe Michael Jonas did so well for me , the field work , to maximize the probability of getting the best auction outcome on one particular day.
Michael Jonas is very good at what he does because he likes what he does , or is it the other way around ?
My very first experience of property selling was , I would say , a good one as many of my friends came to congratulate me.
I am almost looking forward to another one , when I recover from this one.