Posts by Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 11/03/2021
RIGHTMOVE ON THE BLINK Last week I noticed that my local agent was having problems uploading new stock to Rightmove. Having made an investigation into it – Rightmove suggested it was an isolated incident and it was possibly the agent and their system that created the problem. Now from information that Rightmove has sent out…
Read MoreRopa Old Before Its Time & Propertymark – Project Fear
The chief architects of RoPA are over 80 years old and 75 years old. Real estate is nearer the needs and buying habits of Gen-Z who now populate over three quarters of the global population. Maybe instead of trying to reverse engineer real estate, and put in place a set of gatekeepers, kick over the…
Read MoreThe Problem With Propertymark
Do I like the idea of an organization that nurtures and helps its membership, who defends its interests, listens to its members needs and is the torch bearer of truth, integrity and is above approach with regard to its financial probity, especially as it may sell guidance to its membership on this very topic? The…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 10/03/2021
FINANCE CHIEF OF PROPERTYMARK RESIGNS – SEVEN DEPARTURES IN 10 MONTHS Following on from our reporting yesterday Kate Hawkins Chief Finance Officer has resigned to ‘seek other opportunities’. Also a non-executive Helen Herniman has resigned, this means that in the last 10 months;- the Chair has left, David Cox has left, Mark Hayward has left,…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 08/03/2021
BOOMIN TO LAUNCH ON 2ND OF APRIL Nobody’s fool, Boomin swerve the 1st of April, as they announce the 2nd of April 2021 to launch. As the founders of Boomin have reportedly said and as they say they are not looking to win the big three portal race, they are in a different event altogether,…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 05/03/2021
BUDGET MEANS FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR HOUSING MARKET – IS THAT A GOOD THING? The Chancellor’s budget with an extension of the SDLT holiday until the end of June, and a further tapering of no SDLT in the 125,000 to 250,000 banding, for a further three-months until September, has created a stampede to do all…
Read MoreDAY IN A LIFE … Heather Staff
What does a day in the life mean? Definition (expr.) a typical day; a normal day. Examples I wonder what a day in the life of a Rock star is like? We continue this series of daily insights with: – Heather Staff, Co-Founder of newly launched Estate Agency CRM street.co.uk and prospecting tool, Spectre. Heather and her brother Tom,…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 04/03/2021
STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY EXTENDED 3-MONTHS As many pundits predicted the cliff edge of the 31st of March, has been replaced by the cliff edge of the 31st of June, thanks to the Chancellor. And for the following three-months, ending on the 31st of September there will be no SDLT payable in the £125,000 to £250,000…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS -top 5 stories 03/03/2021
STARBERRY ACQUIRED BY EPROPSERVICES In the second, of what now looks like a trend technology brands are buying up or into website providers who have cutting edge services which create lead generation for clients. This time it is Ben & Rus Sellers of Starberry being bought out by epropservices headed up by CEO Jon Cooke.…
Read MoreChris May is on a mission to give power back to the agents – join him
Up until the late 1990’s and the arrival of property portals, estate agents were the biggest beasts in the property jungle. Then things changed, and all their housing inventory became diced and sliced onto a big digital billboard, where their natural branding disappeared sacrificed on a search criteria of price, house type and postcode. Quite…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 02/03/2021
IS ONLINER EMOOV PIVOTING INTO BECOMING AN i-BUYER? It has been recently announced that Emoov (2) the assets that were bought from the administrator of Russell Quirke’s original Emoov and merged Sarah Beeny’s Tepilo, are now to offer an i-Buyer service to its vendors who are in distress. Since it started trading under new ownership…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 01/03/2021
THREE LEGAL GROUPS HAVE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION OVER STAMP DUTY An open letter to the Chancellor has been sent in by Beth Rudolf, Director of Delivery, The Conveyancing Association, Mike Ockenden, Head of Secretariat, Society of Licensed Conveyancers and Rob Hailstone, CEO, Bold Legal Group. In it they propose that a hard stop date policy is…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 26/02/2021
BOOMIN STARTS ITS WAR OF WORDS WITH RIGHTMOVE Michael Bruce one of the founders of Boomin has launched a scathing attack on Rightmove, focusing on its strategy of not reinvesting in technology to push the envelope and evolve the portals model, he also drew attention to the upward spike in cost for the agents. Commenting…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 25/02/2021
PROPERTYMARK HIRES AN INTERNAL CANDIDATE AS INTERIM CEO Beleaguered Propertymark, who recently ‘lost’ their CEO new hire Tim Balcon, have now turned to one of their own board members Nathan Emerson to act as interim CEO. On the positive Nathan has a distinguished agency background, but it remains to be seen if any changes will…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 24/02/2021
MARCH BUDGET CAN NOT COME SOON ENOUGH FOR HOUSING MARKET Until Rishi Sunak makes a definitive play on the stamp duty question, nothing is certain, the good thing it is only eight days until certainty washes in. There is now talk of an extension that will mirror the end of pandemic restrictions, a three-month span,…
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