Real Estate

Reaching for the off switch: An alternative way of selling your home

Off-market is not the easiest way to sell, but it is increasingly the most desirable for top-end vendors who value privacy and discretion

David Johnson, managing director of INHOUS: ‘Estate agency is evolving, and not necessarily in a good way’

Estate agency is evolving, and not necessarily in a good way. We live in an era of glossy Netflix property series showcasing million-dollar mansions and the people who sell them.

While compelling, the intimate fly-on-the-wall portrayals of these properties don’t just invite strangers into a vendor’s home, but friends, acquaintances, colleagues, the next-door neighbour, and parents from your children’s school. How will this approach be received in Ireland? How many Irish vendors would be happy ...