It is only two weeks since this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations and while it is early days yet there definitely seems to be a bit of a spring in the property market in Hertfordshire. The RICS have reported that house sales are on the rise and another study has shown that mortgage lending is improving, albeit from a low base. This chimes with what we have found in the last 2 weeks with three sales in the last 10 days, two of which had multiple offers and one which sold in under a week from coming to market. The third house had been on the market for over a year as it had come to market with another agent for around £70,000 too high a price and which we have just sold to a London Buyer for £645,000. The market started well in 2012 but petered out. Let’s hope the momentum this year is greater. I have a feeling it will be, but time will tell.