Bramshott - and that is precisely why if I was moving, the first question I'd be asking the EA is how motivated the seller was. I'm sure many downsizers would like us to sacrifice time with our families to pay for their saga cruises, and perhaps some would be happy to do that, but not me.
As far as I'm concerned, kite flyers like these are not active participants in the property market - their level of delusion has good comedy value but other than that they're irrelevant really.