The AJ Blog

Everything you need to know about selling your home, in one handy place. Tips and advice about how to select the right time to sell your home, how to choose the best pricing strategy, step-by-step guides to style every room for photography and viewings, and how to choose the right estate to sell your home.

The ‘write’ way to sell your home – descriptions that sell houses blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

The ‘Write’ Way to Sell Your Home – Descriptions that Sell Houses

Your home deserves to be described in the best way. With the right words. Words that are evocative, beautiful and compelling.

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10 Quick home staging tips for Summer blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

10 Quick Home Staging Tips for Summer

When your home is for sale, at any moment you could get a call from your estate agent with a viewing.

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Behind the Scenes of our First Property Lifestyle Movie

Now of course, property videos are nothing new. But this was something really different, and we love different at AshdownJones.

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Struggling to sell blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

Struggling to sell?

When you have your home up for sale, time seems to stand still. You’re in limbo, caught between your old life, and your new one, with no way of knowing when you’ll be able to move on.

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How do you value a unique home blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

How do we value a unique home?

Here in the Lake District, valuing a property is far from straightforward. There are so many factors to take into account, like the views, the historical importance and the calibre of the road.

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What's your house brand blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

What's your house brand?

Branding is a symbol or mark that distinguishes one product from another, just as it was originally intended to ensure farmers and ranchers knew which herd was theirs…

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What's your house brand blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

What’s your house brand?

Branding is a symbol or mark that distinguishes one product from another, just as it was originally intended to ensure farmers and ranchers knew which herd was theirs…

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Do you still need a brochure to sell your house blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

Do you still need a brochure to sell your house?

Way back in the olden days, my mum worked in an estate agency. I remember her sticking little photographs onto typed particulars with glue.

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Everyone says they love our home… so why hasn’t it sold blogpost by AshdownJones estate agents in the Lakes and Dales

Everyone says they love our home… so why hasn’t it sold?

If your home is for sale, weekends can often be a whirlwind of tidying, vacuuming and sending the kids out to walk the dog, so that your home looks at its very best…

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The AJ Hub

Everything you need to know about selling your home, in one handy place. Tips and advice about how to select the right time to sell your home, how to choose the best pricing strategy, step-by-step guides to style every room for photography and viewings, and how to choose the right estate to sell your home.