Moorhouse & Kent — Estate agents in Abbotsmoor
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Moorhouse & Kent has sold homes in Abbotsmoor and the Vale since 1987 — one office, six people, and a list we know house by house. If you are selling, we will tell you the honest guide. If you are buying, we will tell you the honest house.
Three of the homes we brought to market this week. Guides on request — ring the office and ask for the particulars.
The Old Dairy, Lower Cray
Four bedrooms, a walled garden, and the last unconverted hayloft on the lane. Chain free. Guide on request.
14 Ropewalk, Abbotsmoor
Three-bedroom terrace a minute from the market square, re-roofed last spring, with the long east-facing garden the row is known for.
Wren Cottage, Steeple Vale
A two-bedroom cottage on the green with a workshop that has planning history worth reading. Offers invited over the guide.
Thirty-eight years on Sheep Street, measured in the only numbers that matter to a seller.
The record is the argument. We would rather bring nine serious viewings than forty curious ones, and the numbers below are last year’s, counted the boring way.
- homes sold last year, town and Vale
- 92
- viewings to an agreed sale, on average
- 9
- of agreed sales completed
- 19 in 20
- years of the same phone number
- 38
Half the boards in the Vale carry their name and the other half wish they did. Moorhouse & Kent still walk every house before they write a word about it, and it shows in what they refuse to list.
The same method since 1987, tightened yearly. You will know where your sale stands every Friday, in writing.
The walk-through
Nell or Davey walks the house, tells you the honest guide and the honest work worth doing first — sometimes the second is worth more than the first.
The particulars
Photography on a bright morning, a floor plan measured by us, and particulars written by someone who has stood in every room.
The viewings
Every viewing accompanied by someone who can answer the second question, not just the first. Offers come to you the day they are made, in writing.
From sellers and buyers this year, unedited.
Two agents told us a fantasy guide to win the listing. Nell told us the real one, then beat it in eleven days with a buyer who did not blink at the survey.
As buyers we were nobody’s client, but Davey still rang us first when the right cottage came up, because he had actually listened to what we wanted. We were in by Christmas.
The sale nearly fell over twice and both times it was Moorhouse & Kent who put it back together, on the phone, on a Sunday. Four stars only because the second Sunday was my fault.
The four questions every valuation starts with.
A walk-through takes an hour, the guide comes in writing the next morning, and neither commits you to anything. Most people learn something about their house either way.