If you read my piece last week about the latest consultation on improving the home buying process you’ll be aware there was a similar exercise dating back to 1998, when the so-called Sellers Pack was being considered by government.
So you might think that the long-winded discussion and debate on the subject of the ills of residential property sales has been going on for about the last 27 years or so – with no satisfactory conclusion to date.
But you would be out by several decades…
Here is an extract from the pages of Country Life Magazine dated April 5th 1962 – and you’ll be pretty familiar with everything it says.
If ever there was proof that there is nothing new under the sun, this must be it!
The extract is reproduced by kind permission of Country Life Magazine.
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