An estate agent who made his first sale in 1968 is selling the same house again before he retires – for 100 times the original price.<br /><br />Andrew Morris was aged 18 when he helped Michael and June Stafford buy their first home in Hereford.<br /><br />The couple paid £6,000 for the four-bedroom detached Victorian property in the fashionable Broomy Hill area of the city.<br /><br />After Mr Stafford died in 2017 aged 92, his wife June, 85, was forced to move into a care home.<br /><br />The couple’s three adult children have now asked Mr Morris to sell the Prince Edward Road property for a second time.<br /><br />The vast property is now on the market for £595,000 – almost 100 times the original price tag 55 years ago.<br /><br />Mr Morris, 73, said: “I have never been in this position before in my career, to be selling a house where the same family have lived for so many years.<br /><br />“There’s a lifetime of memories in the house and I certainly remember selling it when I was about 18.<br /><br />“I was doing an apprenticeship and a young couple were looking to buy because the husband had got a teaching job at Hereford Cathedral School.<br /><br />“From what I remember, they looked around the property, which is rather imposing and grand in scale, and they fell in love with it.”<br /><br />The double-fronted two-storey property was originally built in 1860 and boasts four bedrooms as well as a large cellar.<br /><br />Mr Morris, who now owns his own estate agents which is named after him, said the jump in the £595,000 asking price told its own story.<br /><br />He added: “It just shows how high property prices have gone.<br /><br />“At the time I sold this house, most family-sized properties were selling for around £2,000 so this one was top end even then.<br /><br />“To be now selling it for just about 100 times the original price shows how long I’ve been in this career.<br /><br />“Showing people around the property certainly brings back lots of happy memories for me and I’m glad such a beautiful family home it must have been.”<br /><br />Despite being seven years above the national retirement age for me, Mr Morris says he has no plans to retire any time soon.<br /><br />He said: “There will probably come a time when I have to stop doing this but I still love what I’m doing.<br /><br />“You are often helping people buy homes where they will enjoy a life-time of memories and this house is certainly proof of that.”
