Not just your ordinary, generic estate agency site, this allows you to do much more. Please have a go and tell us what you think.
As you all know websites are becoming more and more important, especially when it comes to searching for properties. I know the old saying “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” and the last website certainly worked, it was one of the top rating estate agents sites in the county and our customers always complimented us on its simplicity. We hope these new changes will only increase its ranking and usability. What's New?
We would love to have your feedback on how we could continue to improve our site enquiries@sowerbys.com
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis instead of tasteful camouflage
I was constantly being asked what was the little white thing on our logo? Some people thought it was either the head and shoulders of a man or a pawn piece from a game of chess, as well as various other obscure ideas. In fact it was a stone finial which stood at the top of the pitched roof of my first office in Burnham Market, which is now the Fairfax Gallery. It was for this reason I thought for our last boards, I would make it very obvious what it was and give that real architectural stamp to the brand. We did quite a large poll of people's opinions and it was generally met with a positive reaction so it was rolled out. My mistake was that we should have tried the boards out on the road opposed to letting them be looked at in their isolated splendour. We soon realised that what we felt were distinctive tasteful boards were probably the best camouflage you could probably give a for sale board, once it was located at the property, beside a hedge, so we needed to rethink. Green and cream have always been synonymous with Sowerbys but needed to be complimented with a third colour to stand out. I tried various colours which just clashed and look gaudy and was beginning to despair, when whilst watching Andy Murray (or trying not to watch as the match was beginning to slip away), I had my eureka moment, Wimbledon green, cream and purple. These colours were made for each other and I am reliably told by Mary Portas that purple is very in this year. I love the new boards, they are very visible with that very English understated look.
We have now given the boards a further tweak and brought them into the 21st century by introducing QR Codes (Quick Response Codes). This allows you to simply scan the board with your Smartphone and it will feed back price, photos, room details and much more, the best thing it works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so the information is always at your fingertips.
Dark masculine changes to Burnham interior chic
When we moved premises nearly 10 years ago from The Old Forge to the main Market Place, I made best use of all my old furniture which even included my grandparents dining room table with matching oak chairs, which set my theme, not that I really had one, to a dark masculine look. This was further added to after a visit to Country and Eastern in Norwich, where I was quite carried away and returned with heavy Indian furniture with matching columns and sculptures. I have been allowed to get away with this look for probably far too long until my fellow director, Charmaine, reminded me I was very much in the minority in what is a very successful but female dominated office. I therefore did the only sane course of action and agreed to give her carte blanche for refurbishment. Burnham Interiors, headed by Nanci Gillett and Penny Bonas were quickly called in to do their magic.
Their brief was to recreate a beautiful coastal home interior with functionality. Well I am pleased to say they have done just that. Ottaway Building & Carpentry did a wonderful job of the joinery, Reeve Flooring have laid a great oak floor, which is complimented by Supreme Carpets diamond carpet. The furniture is very clean and chic, using Lloyd Loom of Spalding designs as well as French Scumble Goosie tables. This clean look is a great background to our new digital property displays, which are balanced with some wonderful hand drawn architectural sketch drawings of the local houses and shops, which are supplied with the permission of the local artists in the Burnham Market Society, all featured in their Walk Around Burnham book, which was produced and now in memory of the late Stuart Murphy of Burnham Market.
