MARCHING TOWARDS SPRING IN STYLE
10 March 2017
IT may be March but there is a decided spring in the step of the Tayside homes market.
After a surprisingly mild winter, gardens across the region are seeing snowdrops and crocuses bursting through, providing a welcome dash of colour.
There was a time when the Easter weekend signalled the start of serious house-hunting but that is just a distant memory for busy staff at the Tayside Solicitors Property Centre.
Nowadays, perhaps inspired by website access providing scope to look over properties day and night, the market is year-round, with only a brief lull for Christmas and the New Year festivities.
The bi-weekly Property Guide is still popular with potential buyers, and it continues to profile an unrivalled number of homes for sale cross Tayside.
But the TSPC website provides up to the minute information as properties are introduced to the market by member legal firms.
Across 2016 around 3400 properties came onto the books of the Whitehall Crescent Centre, which can trace its roots back to 1971 when the area’s first ever “one-stop property shop” began to transform the Tayside market.
Centre manager Lynne Hill said: “At the turn of the year we were advising would-be sellers to strike while the iron was hot and bring properties to the market. It looks like people were listening, judging by the volume of homes being registered with the Centre even before the clocks go back later this month.”
The TSPC has always invested in technology designed to enhance the service to sellers and buyers alike - and the website and smart phone friendly apps have been a hit with clients.
Over a 12-month period nearly 4 MILLION schedules were downloaded from www.tspc.co.uk with smart phone visits nudging towards the million mark.