An Eye reader who has sat through all three of the Sarah Beeny programmes, How to Sell Your Home, says he has yet to notice any mention of mandatory EPCs.

It is a good point: has he, or we (because Eye watches it too), been missing something?

We were, by the way, intrigued with Monday’s night’s programme where one property (a two-bedroom flat) was valued by the high street agent at £350,000 to which the seller acted in the obvious way – sticking it on at £425,000.

After counselling by Sarah, he reduced it to £415,000. It didn’t sell, of course, even when he reduced it to £395,000.

Perhaps it did not help either that he fat-fingered the price to £3.95m – but then as Eye readers may recall from a recent story about a three-bed semi on The Wirral priced at £1.45m, that is not without precedent.

Eye also liked the Essex couple whose four-bed arts and crafts house had been on with a high street agent at £750,000 for three months – so they decided to take matters into their own hands.

Having splashed out on a new bathroom plus other bits and pieces, they marketed it online at £725,000 and got an offer in the first week, thereby saving themselves £12,500 in estate agency fees, according to the programme – or as their local newspaper prefers to call it, a “whopping £13,500”. They also cancelled other viewings which they had lined up, to accept the first offer they received.

Er, as we constantly have to confess, maths is not our strong point. But surely, if the high street agent had got £740,000 for it, they’d have been better off.

And remember, they had spent around the same amount as the “saving” on their cosmetic improvements to the property.

Here’s how the Romford Recorder carried news of the couple’s wonderful saving.