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The first estate agent went all out to create a sense of obligation, rang up the same afternoon, heard we were wavering and cut us off mid-conversation. Poor salesmanship, poor PR for his company. He must have been feeling very brittle.

The other two took a casual approach. Hire us if you like but we won't get stroppy if you don't. They also valued the property similarly. It was a hard choice. In the end we went with the smaller, local company because small and local are beautiful. Their fees are also slightly lower.

We're waiting now for someone to come and measure up, take photographs, publish the info, put up a board...

We'd like to be viewing houses, but covid regulations say you can't unless you've already got your own house under offer- or something along those lines- so we're looking online. There's a town centre house we're currently attracted to that occupies part of a Victorian factory. It has quirk- and all other things being equal- we'd prefer a house with quirk.