Worth Farm is an exceptional Grade II listed, detached farmhouse. The owners decided the time had come to downsize, but overvaluing by their initial agent cost them months of delays...

Every estate agent promises it. Every valuation appointment includes it. And every seller and landlord has heard it so often that it becomes background noise. The phrase is simple: “We work in your best interests.” But what does that really look like in practice?

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It’s one of the longest-running sales lines in estate agency to win over vendors and it sounds compelling. The problem is, once you actually look at how buyers behave, the logic falls apart.