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Cheerio 2020!

  We hope you’re all well and have made it through to the end of a very different year! It’s been a year to forget for several reasons! We now look forward to a more positive 2021. We hope for many people this will be a better year with less hardship and the survival of those businesses that we have grown to love. For the property industry it's been a topsy turvey time with some difficult weeks,...

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Update on Coronavirus and Tier 3 Status

Can I list my property if it’s in a tier 3 area? Yes, at John Smale & Co its business as usual as far as listing properties are concerned. Our team is working hard to ensure our clients safety is of utmost priority, while working towards making the whole process as stress-free and easy as possible. We have made some changes, including virtual property valuations where we are able to, and...

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Season's Greetings from John Smale & Co

Wishing all our clients and customers a very Happy Christmas.  Enjoy and keep safe and we look forward to seeing you all in 2021.    

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"Letting Agent" Award for the Third Year Running

John Smale & Co have won the British Property Lettings Award for Barnstaple, for the third year running. The team performed outstandingly throughout the extensive judging period, which focused on customer service levels. We have now been shortlisted for a number of national awards which will be announced shortly. The British Property Awards provide agents throughout the UK with an invaluable...

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Helping our Local Charities

Here at John Smale & Co we like to help local charities where and when we can. With 2020 being a particularly hard year for charities it has been a pleasure to donate to the “Over and Above” local Hospital Charity’s current appeal.  This current appeal, “North Devon Cancer and Wellbeing Centre Appeal” is to raise much needed funds to build a new state of the art information and support centre...

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Market Comment

Nearly the end of November and creeping towards the end of the 2nd lockdown! We are trading but with locked doors and are still taking lots of calls, conducting distanced viewings, valuations and virtual property inspections. The market continues to be buoyant with buyers prepared to visit a single house (often after watching the virtual tour we provided) and then making an offer. They are very...

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Busy Day for Completions

Getting everything ready for a busy day of "completions" and some special treats for our vendors and purchasers.

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4 Week Lockdown - We are still here to help

The property market will continue to be open during the current 4 week lockdown.  The Government Regulations specifically state that activities relating to the property sector are "allowed to continue under exemption to leaving your home" and that you are allowed to undertake the following activities in connection with the purchase, sale, letting or rental of a residential or commercial property...

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Stamp Duty Holiday - Time is running out to meet the deadline!

If you want to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday, you will have to place your property on the market now, to have a chance to sell your home before the 31 March 2021 deadline. The average time it takes to complete on a property once an offer is accepted is 12 weeks, so the March deadline will soon rapidly be upon us. Bearing in mind things often don’t go quite to plan, with many hurdles on...

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