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Forget Online versus High Street – Focus on Your ClientsAugust 16, 2018Estate agency, as we’ve known it, is changing. Pre-internet, our job was to provide information; post-internet, it our job is to explain it. Every vendor and purchaser, landlord and tenant, not only has all the information they think they need, […]- How the Sharing Economy Is Impacting Residential Property in the UKAugust 15, 2018In a recent survey conducted by academics from the Warwick Business School, it was found that the sharing economy in the UK has risen by at least 60% within the past 18 months and amazingly, almost one-quarter of consumers use shared services at […]
- Do I Need a Solicitor When Selling My Business?August 15, 2018If you have ever sold a business, you will be well accustomed to the process. If you haven’t, however, keep reading. Selling a business is not simply a case of finding somebody who is interested, taking their money and handing over the keys… there’s […]
- Tenant Fee Ban – Your OptionsAugust 15, 2018Let’s make no bones about it. When the Tenant Fee Ban comes into force you WILL: See a DROP in your income and profits Achieve LOWER service levels LOSE more landlords So what are your options for overcoming the challenges faced by letting agents? […]
Breaking news
- UK Property market is set to tumble?August 16, 2018Is has been booming of recent hasn’t it – The UK housing market I am on about… Prices rising, rising and rising and all on the foundations of buy to let investments and increased population increases, added to of course by somewhat [More]
- Remortgaging continued to dominate in June according to UK FinanceAugust 16, 2018Latest news release from UK Finance dated 14th August 2018 headlines ‘House purchase activity slows in June but remortgaging activity remains high’. Commenting on the data, Jackie Bennett, Director of Mortgages at UK Finance said: [More]
- Average price of a property for June 2018 in UK was £228,384 according to latest HPI from HM Land RegistryAugust 16, 2018Latest UK House Price Index Summary – June 2018 from HM Land Registry reveals that the average price of a property in the UK was £228,384. The report stated that UK house prices rose by 3.0% in the year to June 2018, down from 3.5% in the [More]
- House prices fall overall in August in England and wales according to Home.co.ukAugust 15, 2018Latest Home.co.uk Asking Price Index report – August 2018 headlines ‘Home Price Falls Spread Across More Regions’. According to Home.co.uk, Home prices in England and Wales fell overall by 0.3% this month, the largest falls were in [More]
Estate Agent Talk
- Forget Online versus High Street – Focus on Your ClientsEstate agency, as we’ve known it, is changing. Pre-internet, our job was to provide information; post-internet, it our job is to explain it. Every vendor and purchaser, landlord and tenant, not only has all the information they think they need, […]
- How the Sharing Economy Is Impacting Residential Property in the UKIn a recent survey conducted by academics from the Warwick Business School, it was found that the sharing economy in the UK has risen by at least 60% within the past 18 months and amazingly, almost one-quarter of consumers use shared services at […]
- What is a Hybrid Estate Agency?The traditional model is a type of business hasn’t had any real change for some time. It revolves around a physical place, a shop or office something along those lines. While there has been exponential growth in the world of technology, there are […]
Letting Agent Talk
- Tenant Fee Ban – Your OptionsLet’s make no bones about it. When the Tenant Fee Ban comes into force you WILL: See a DROP in your income and profits Achieve LOWER service levels LOSE more landlords So what are your options for overcoming the challenges faced by letting agents? […]
- What is your plan for the ban?After attending a recent ARLA meeting where their solicitor spoke about the impending fee ban and if/when it was due to happen I left with a rather large sense of foreboding. His best guess was that the ban would hit in April 2019, just 9 […]
- Inventories – why have them done?The AIIC (Association of Independent Inventory Clerks) is working towards making inventories mandatory in residential lettings. This has caused a storm not just against inventories being made mandatory, but against having inventories at all. Surely, […]
Marketing
The amazing world of Drones
I am sure we have all bought one sometime or another, that present for a younger family member, that curiosity or should I say childish fascination we still have as adults for gadgets or maybe you have purchased one for business use such as filming real estate? Today there is a massive choice out there for drones [...]
Estate Agents - Nobody cares about your Market Share
Why? Because people are trying to sort their own live's out to care about your silly Rightmove Pie Chart
What Makes The Best Agent Guide so Different to Other Estate Agency Awards?
I asked Peter Knight, founder of the Best Agent Guide ... "What Makes The Best Agent Guide so Different to Other Estate Agency Awards? "
How important is your Estate Agency Website when it comes to selling property online?
In nearly all occasions, the most important part of your business will be exposure online be it via social media, a fabulous website or even a landing page such as on Ebay or Amazon – We are all trying to push our brands online so that we can divert traffic to them and sell our [...]
Content Marketing in Estate Agency - The Silver Bullet?
Richard Rawlings chats with me about the Power of Content Marketing - What works and What doesn't!
The #1 Reason our Estate Agency Marketing doesn't get us the Free Vals and Listings we want
Its no wonder your marketing isn't attracting the free vals and listings you want .. let me share with you why - and what you can do to change it for the better
Behind the scenes of our marketing funnels
This article is going to help you to understand what a funnel is, what it can do for you, and what you can do if yours doesn’t seem to be working.
Do you Have a Triple A Team? Attitude, Aptitude, Appearance makes for the perfect team
It’s not easy to get hiring right. That senior negotiator you bribed away from the competition with a 25% pay rise turns out to be someone they were about to fire. And that girl you promoted from lettings was so promising, but she’s developed a mystery illness and is never in the office. No one [...]
What a Marketing Funnel is, and Why You Need One
NB: Read to the bottom for an offer you can’t refuse…… Your marketing acts like a funnel, or should do. The idea is, you put prospective clients – vendors and landlords – in the top, and sales – revenue; money in the bank – tumbles out the bottom. By its very nature, a funnel is [...]
The Need for More Stock in My Estate Agency
ATTRACTING HOUSESELLERS TO USE YOUR ESTATE AGENCY ...it’s really tough at the moment to be an estate agent .. not enough stock, over valuing, fees always being screwed down ..it’s tough.
Finance
- Receiving Payments From International Clients SimplifiedThe #PropTechDen held last August saw a significant rise in attendees, both local and international. Since the Brexit vote, investors from Asia, particularly China and Hong Kong, have shown increased interest in residential as well as commercial […]
- Sourcing buy to let loans on higher value propertyIf you are looking for a buy to let mortgage on a high value property, the challenge of securing finance can be tough. A specialist broker could make a big difference in sourcing the size of loan you need at a competitive rate. On bigger loans, […]
- Harnessing the earning power of your homeWhat if you were able to boost your income using your home without having to sell or re-mortgage? Here are just some ways in which you can make your home work in your favour financially.
- Bravish New WorldAldous Huxley probably didn’t have financial regulation in mind when he wrote his novel about a dystopian world order, but the slew of newly formed global rules, that today govern international finance, does have a touch of that Brave New […]
