Thank goodness the World Cup is all over at least for England anyway. Over the last two weeks I am sure we have all been football experts shouting at the television telling Fabio Capello which team to pick and which formation to use whether it should be a diamond or Christmas tree! How on earth anybody can do their job when they can hardly speak the language and when they do, the excuse for our poor performance is that the players are tired. Somehow I don't think our clients would accept this as an excuse as to why we weren't selling their houses! Moving on swiftly, it has been interesting over the last three weeks to see how the World Cup has affected the property market. Some areas of the country are reporting a slump in house sales of up to 26% in June but I think another valid reason for this is the extraordinary good weather that we have experienced over the past month. I feel quite sure that we can now expect home buyers to return to the housing market with a real conviction to secure their new property. They will certainly be more welcome than the England football team.
