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Jobs Undertaken
Estate layout, property management, insurance valuations,
valuations in defence of company takeover.
I think it is the last listed item that probably creates the greatest pressure, since invariable there is a totally unreasonable time limit and whole gammut of work to be undertaken, with no prior knowledge of the sites to be valued. In one instance I had seven days to value sixteen residential building sites spread through the Home Counties. Each one had to be inspected, a plethora of documents assessed and valuations constructed. The only possible way to achieve this was to cut oneself off from the office and work from home. It was then possible to work straight through to midnight and if you woke up at three, you could go back and do some more. The neighbours must have wondered about all the motorbikes arriving with packages, but the valuation at seventy six million pounds went out on time.
Property auctions can be exciting but the mentality of buyers can be hard to understand. Selling land worth one million pounds itis always nice to have a real start so that I will usually go as low as necessary to get there. You will quite likely have to struggle to get just one bid of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, but once it gets to one million pounds there are twenty people waving their catalogues at you.