The Walmington-on-Sea School of Estate Agency As a child I found Dad’s Army, the popular BBC comedy series to be rather dull and a bit old fashioned. Monty Python was more my thing. However as time has gone by and I myself have become a bit old fashioned I have come to better appreciate the goings on in Walmington-on-Sea. It struck me recently in fact that the property market all of a sudden seems to have embraced certain idiosyncrasies of some of its better known characters. Given that the series revolves around a platoon of the Home Guard is I suppose it is in fact quite appropriate. On the one hand we have the Private Frazers of this world telling us ” We’re doomed I tell ye’, we’re doooomed!” and on the other there are the Corporal Jones’s frantically telling us “Don’t panic, don’t panic”. The fact is that the sell your house quickly current market in East Central Scotland is very challenging and certainly the most tricky since the early 90′s. That said I would not personally subscribe to either of the aforementioned Frazer or “Jonsey” schools of thought. The property market like most everything else is cyclical and there have always been periods of growth and periods of correction. The rate of growth we have seen in the last number of years was unsustainable and being at a rate far in excess of inflationary wage rises meant that first time buyers especially were beginning to struggle to get a toe hold on even the bottom rung of the property ladder. Whilst helped by increased income multipliers and larger value loans it was a pretty precarious set up. The current market is simply a period of correction and we are neither doomed nor do we need to panic.