Monday

I always wanted to be an estate agent. When I was about 13 I used to order sales brochures and make my sisters pretend to be buyers. Now here I am, part of a team handling the sale of flats and houses across Clapham, Battersea and Wandsworth.

My morning is spent catching up with colleagues on viewings and offers that came in over the weekend as well as updating clients on the weekend's activity. Then in the afternoon, I take a call from a local couple who are expecting a baby and keen to move before the arrival.

They’re looking for a house on the Shaftesbury Park Estate and I think we have just the property for them, so I arrange a viewing for later in the week. Fortunately, there is nothing unusual on their property wish list: I had a client recently who stipulated a downstairs shower – for their dog.

I pop out for a late lunch and bump into a client we sold a house to a couple of years ago. At the time she was about to have her second child, who, I’m told, has just started school – how time flies!

Tuesday

I’m up early for my first appointment of the day – a pitch for a lovely two-bedroom cottage in Clapham Old Town. The vendor has invited us in after we sold a home across the road which had gone to best bids.

It’s a really a special property with great period features and a few buyers immediately come to mind.The owner is looking to move to the West Country and I think the Clifton office may have just the thing so I ask them to call her. It will make it so much easier if we deal with both ends of the sale.

In the afternoon, I visit our head offices in Oxford Circus for some training. I arrive early as I am hoping to catch up with a few colleagues from the residential development team as they have a new scheme on our patch that I have someone interested in. I’m just leaving when a member of the country department introduces me to a long-standing client who is looking for a London home for their graduate son. I take down their details and confirm that I’ll follow up the next day with some options.

Then I'm off to Clapham Old Town to the annual Royal Trinity Hospice Garden Party, a fund-raising event which our local offices have been involved in for over 20 years. I’m so pleased to hear later that such a significant amount was raised.

Wednesday

My day begins with a valuation.Two years ago, I sold a one-bedroom apartment in Geraldine Road in Wandsworth to a gentleman who was a first-time buyer. After some lengthy negotiations, it was a real pleasure to hand him the keys to his first home.

This gentleman's experience was pretty typical of the property buying process, but it's actually perfectly possible for a sale to go through at lightening speed. We once had a very unusual flat which was going up for auction. The day before the auction, we accepted an offer on it. It was tight, but the buyers managed to get the property exchanged before the auctioneer started taking bids on it.

My Geraldine Road client is now looking to sell and as he works in the City and is quite an analytical guy, I take along our latest research document centred on the prime London and country markets to give him some insight and background on the market.

He and I then go and see a few flats that could be of interest for his onward move. He seems particularly impressed with a period garden flat so we arrange a second viewing for Friday.

I have a conversation with yesterday's country client and I think we may have just the right thing for them. Later, I meet our waterfront team for a catch up. They specialise in the Thames-side stretch from Richmond to Canary Wharf and often organise boat trips along the water to update the London offices on riverside property. Today is one of those days so a few of us from across the region head off along the Thames.

Thursday

I’m in the office all day today and between meetings and greeting walk-ins, I set aside some time to organise an event.

Earlier in the year, I set up a first-time buyer seminar at our head office, involving a range of speakers. We had such a brilliant response that I’m now in the midst of organising a follow-up event. I’ve found a date so now I need to check that all the speakers – a solicitor, a mortgage broker, colleagues from the residential development and residential teams as well as a member of our research department – are available.

Ordinarily I’d be heading home after work, but not tonight. Our South West London region is getting together for a rounders social, followed by a BBQ. There’s sure to be plenty of healthy competition – only one office can be crowned winner and I rate our chances. We win.

Friday

This morning I’m off to meet a client referred by our office in Summertown, Oxford. They are selling the country home of a lady who has a very successful catering business and is expanding into London. She’s decided to put down some roots here and is searching for a pied-à-terre. We spend a couple of hours looking at a variety of flats and one in particular, in a small boutique development, piques her interest. It's a beautiful day so we end with a coffee by Wandsworth Common which helps her get a feel for the area.

We were instructed on the Geraldine Road flat yesterday and the afternoon sees the second viewing on the garden flat, which is followed up with an offer. I call the owner who is really pleased and accepts. The buyer is equally delighted – though they haven't got their own flat on the market yet.

I then pop down to Balham to hand over the keys for a property we completed on this morning. I give the buyer the keys and a bottle of champagne which she plans to open this evening with her first visitors.

It took that particular buyer quite a while to find exactly what she wanted, which made my job all the more rewarding when she finally did. I sold a flat recently to a lovely girl who must have seen at least 20 properties before we found the one. She planned to completely renovate and extend it and I got really involved in helping her with ideas – it was just really nice to see it through to the end.

The week has come to a close and there's just time for a few colleagues and I to have a quick drink at The Draft House before we all head off for the weekend.

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