The best deals by far are the ones secured off market: where the properties are not listed on the open market for sale. And we’d learnt one of the ways of securing such type of deals is by speaking to everyone about what we do, transforming old properties into high quality homes. That’s exactly what we did that landed us our second off market deal!

During the refurbishment of a previous project, we’d chapped on the neighbour’s door to ‘apologise in advance’ about the noise that would come from all the planned works and after this was all completed, we invited them over to see the finished product and they were so wowed about the transformation because they’d seen what the property looked like, prior to our purchase. We quickly chipped in that if they knew of anyone who was considering selling their property, they should get in touch.

A few weeks later, we got a call from the neighbour about a property a 3 bed end-terraced house which had been lying empty for over a year and the vendor was looking for a quick sale. We viewed the property, negotiated and agreed a deal and with a light refurb programme (tidied up the kitchen and bathroom, decorated the property and laid new flooring), it was brought back into use, freshly redecorated throughout with improvement in the energy efficiency rating (back boiler replaced with a brand new gas central heating system).

The property was easily rented out to a lovely family who’ve made it their home due, enjoying proximity to all amenities with the local primary school just across the road! The light refurb work (sorry ‘Before’ pics unavailable) also enhanced the property value by up to 50% of original purchase price.