Posts by Andrew Stanton
Bricks & Mortar the best investment for the future?
A recent report has stated that property prices have risen by 51% in the last decade, which surely must mean that it is above all others in the investment stakes as an asset base. Why then increasingly have we got generation rent? And unlike in Margaret Thatcher’s heyday less emphasis is being put on getting…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 19/01/2021
FIRST TIME BUYERS MAY BE PAYING 40% TOO MUCH INTEREST ON THEIR MORTGAGES Despite the Bank of England having the lowest base rate ever at, it was lowered to 0.1% last March, recent figures published show that a huge chunk of First Time Buyers, over 68% of them took out a mortgage loan for a…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS: 18/01/2021
DEBATE IN GOVERNMENT ON EXTENDING STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY Having exceeded 100,000 signatures, on the petition asking for a debate on SDLT and extending the holiday date, there will be 48 hours before a date is given for when the debate will be heard. When the matter is debated and IF the extension is allowed on the strict…
Read MoreWhat does extending the Stamp Duty holiday petition really mean?
At 15-minutes past Eleven, PM on Sunday night there were 109,599 signatures to the petition that wanted to extend the stamp duty holiday, 9,586 more than was required to trigger a debate in parliament. According to the government website there will now be 48 hours before a date is given for when the debate will…
Read MoreDigital Logbooks for properties – A good idea?
When I retired from active service, being an estate agent, I spent a couple of years doing consultancy work for agents, ‘helping’ them with their businesses, I then moved into the technology space also, seeing how moving the real estate model from analogue to digital looked. Having now met over 200 founders or leads of…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 15/01/2021
PETITION FOR EXTENDING STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY – WILL HIT 100,000 SIGNATURES TODAY With only 6,000 needed to sign the petition today, a debate on whether the stamp duty holiday will be extended looks certain, less certain is what the government will come up with. NUMBER 10 AND PROPERTY INDUSTRY SUPPORTS DIGITAL LOGBOOKS FOR HOUSING The…
Read MoreLand Registry – Digital Street – 2021 not 1862 – Time for change
There has been a lot of ‘tinkering’ around the edges, but it is time for a deep dive into fixing the scattergun approach to transferring the title of a property from part A to party B. After all it can not be all that difficult can it? An integral moving part, though sometimes grindingly slow…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 14/01/2021
SDLT HOLIDAY – MOMENTUM CONTINUES 83,000 SIGNATURES AND RISING Only three days ago 52,000 had signed the petition that would force the government to debate whether the SDLT – holiday should be extended past the 31st of March deadline. Gaining roughly 10,000 new signatures a day, it now has over 83,000 signatures, so by Friday of…
Read MoreThe good news is we have never been here before
I say we have never been here before; but maybe in the 1760’s when the Spinning Jenny, was invented in England, acting as the starting gun for the first industrial revolution, that was a time very similar to now. As we speed through the fourth ‘tech’ led revolution, and AI glitters all around us, and…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 13/01/2021
ANTI MONEY LAUNDERING – HMRC SCORES ON THE DOORS Annually HMRC posts on their government website those who have been shown to have breached the AML regulatory framework. This year only a tiny handful of agents were on the naughty list, which given the amount of transactions that take place, 1.1M completions, hundreds of thousands…
Read MoreBoris on a bike 7 miles from home – Is it a sign?
Though not on a visit to a castle to test his eyesight, as his recent advisor DC was, Boris has been seen with his bicycle clips at the Olympic park some seven miles from home. The questions raised are, did he cycle there, or was he driven, and what constitutes local exercise? And in a…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 12/01/2021
SIR KEIR STARMER WADES INTO VIEWINGS DEBATE Though largely supportive of the Conservative’s Covid-19 handling, albeit he feels Boris is often behind the curve of what to do, the leader of the opposition has opened his big guns on the sanctity of agents doing physical viewings, asking why ‘It is still possible at the moment,…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 11/01/2020
TECLET AND FIXFLO COLLABORATION As predicted only a few days ago 2021 will see some seismic collaborations, and Fixlo and Teclet are now to be joined at the hip, which will greatly enhance both the consumer ride – the UX, and give both sides potential new client streams. In lots of ways it also makes…
Read MoreFreedom of speech – and cladding debacle
As a journalist, freedom of speech is sacrosanct, yet in recent day’s certain bodies have taken it upon themselves to become the decision maker as to what should and should not be given a voice. Considering the first of these – The President’s Twitter account being closed down, is this right or wrong, I am…
Read MoreAll modern business including agencies are digital businesses
The legend that is Chris Watkin asked me this question recently: – ‘If you were going to go into estate agency now, what route would you take, High street, franchise, online, hybrid or a combination of all or any?’ My answer is, ‘the route I would take Chris is DATA. Forget online agency, hybrid, traditional…
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