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Panic Buying
Russell Griffin, Co-Director of Samuel Wood compares the queues for fuel with the queues for property. Think of an estate agent’s office as a petrol filling station. Over the past eighteen months there have been queues of buyers... Read More
Meet Jack Davies Samuel Wood Craven Arms Sales Negotiator
Jack has been working at Samuel Wood for a number of years and is studying for his Propertymark level three qualification in Sale of Residential Property.
Jack joined us... Read More
Winning Gold in the Property Olympics
Get your game face on. Andrew Cadwallader here at Samuel Wood, discusses what it takes to be a winner in the property event. The property market has some interesting parallels with the Olympic Games. Hand-in-hand with glorious success can... Read More
Making things simple when buying a house
In the third regular column from our Co-Director Russell Griffin in our local regional daily paper, the Shropshire Star, Russell, who is also the Midlands Regional Executive on the Propertymark Board, discusses making things more simple when it... Read More
We boost funds to resurface Church Stretton school playground
St Lawrence CE Primary School in Church Stretton is raising funds to resurface its school playground, and here at Samuel Wood Estate Agents, we have boosted funds by donating around a... Read More
Samuel Wood Director chats with TVs Phil Spencer
Co-director of Samuel Wood, Russell Griffin, was recently chosen as one of five experts nationwide to take part in a filmed discussion with TV property guru Phil Spencer.... Read More
Stamp duty tax: what’s changing?
Are you one of the many buyers racing to complete on a home sale before the extended stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland comes to an end on... Read More
Chicken and egg
In our second monthly column for local daily paper, the Shropshire Star, our Co-Director Russell Griffin, discusses the number one question he is asked by people as an estate agent.... Read More
What Goes Up - Goes Up Further
Russell Griffin of Samuel Wood looks to a genius to make some sense of a property market, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1980s. What Isaac Newton, who formulated the laws of gravity in the middle of the 17th... Read More
One in three properties is sold for over asking price
Propertymark's latest Housing Market Report shows that one in three properties (32 per cent) sold for more than the original asking price.
This is the highest figure on record, massively beating the previous one of 19 per cent in May 2014.... Read More