After eight months with a well-known Edinburgh agency, I was in the kitchen of my two-bedroom flat in central Edinburgh. There was yet another flyer from Cecchini Property agent, James Milne. I phoned the number and by the weekend had met him and was impressed. He is an agent who gets things done.  I had met no one from the other agency as their office was closed and all worked from home.  James told me about his strategy for my flat, we put it back on the market. He was forensic in the choice of clients and within five weeks it was sold at an excellent price with exchange happening three weeks later.

Commission was charged on the amount raised over the home report valuation.  This was worth every penny as with the previous agency I had accepted four offers that were under the home report. All fell through. The expenses of the previous year with the other agency were wiped out by the selling price that James achieved.

Throughout the sale he kept us informed and updated and always responded if I wanted contact. 

James is exactly who you need to sell your property.  A born communicator, he will use all his skills and knowledge to affect a good and fast sale.

James has been excellent in both the sale of my current flat and purchase of the new property. He was able to achieve a sale price beyond my expectation in a very short period of time. He genuinely has the best interest of his clients at heart and through good communication has made the whole process run smoothly. I’ve already recommended him to my neighbours!

Talk about saluting somebody’s indefatigability. My partner and I had spent months with a large firm of estate agents, pulling our hair out over what exactly they were doing to earn our fee. If we wanted to know what was going on we had to call them. They never, ever, called us. Moreover, when we did call, we were shunted from one person’s desk to another with no one individual ever responsible (or even on top of) our brief. When they finally allowed our sale to collapse at twenty minutes notice we simply gave up. After, that is, paying a hefty bill which they made clear in no uncertain terms we still owed them. Money literally for nothing.  Enter James and our world changed. We did not find him, he found us. He wrote to us outlining the things he could do and asking if we wanted to chat. We had nothing to lose. We agreed.  So along comes this punctual, charming, articulate and incredibly knowledgeable individual. We took to him immediately and from that day forth he was a dog with a bone on our behalf. Tireless, relentless and always keeping us in the loop. The happiest of endings – James got our sale and our purchase at the same prices we were happy with earlier.  Could have saved a lot of time, heartache and money if we had gone with James to begin with.  Moral of the story? Go with James to begin with. Thanks so much, James. You made a real difference to our lives. God speed, Sir.