Posts by Andrew Stanton
New Year’s Resolutions and Reflections
According to a poll this week, these are the top ten New Year’s resolutions, recognise any: – Exercise more Lose weight Get organized Learn a new skill or hobby Live life to the fullest Save more money / spend less money Quit smoking Spend more time with family and friends Travel more Read more If…
Read MoreDAY IN A LIFE … Vann Vogstad, Founder of COHO
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? Today we begin the 2021 series of daily insights with: – Vann Vogstad, Founder of COHO, an HMO and Coliving management platform, which provides all of the services you might…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 22/12/2020
WELSH HOUSING DRAGON ROARS Investment buyers, second homeowners and BTL buyers have been marginalised in many ways by creeping taxation and other factors, but in Wales with lightening speed a new raft of taxation on non-primary property purchase comes into force, two days before Christmas. With an additional 1% layer of SDLT tax being applied…
Read MoreWill Santa be visiting you this Christmas?
With huge swathes of the UK effectively in lockdown, and despite smiling, friendly bobbies helping London exit at the packed railway termini, Christmas is not its usual self. With whispers of food shortages, a knife-edge hard Brexit, and the new strain of Covid-19 to contend with, my thoughts turn to what is Santa, if Lapland…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 21/12/2020
MENTAL WELL BEING Following the cancelled Christmas, which has understandably shaken agents and their loved ones, a new report has focused on the need for real estate companies to ‘keep connected’ to their employees, especially as WFH has become for many a default proposition. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE – TRENDS Depending on where you sit and…
Read MoreDAY IN A LIFE … Dharmesh Mistry
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? Today we have Dharmesh Mistry, CEO and Co-Founder of AskHomey which he describes as a Prop-FinTech. AskHomey is a home management platform that allows sellers (including new home developers) to…
Read MoreCan the housing market carry on as before?
At twenty past seven on Saturday night just before ‘Strictly’ had crowned its newest winner; Robert Jenrick the Housing Secretary tweeted ‘Housing market update: the sales and rental markets remain open in all tiers. All associated activities can continue as before.’ If this means that even if you live and work in a Tier-4 area,…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 18/12/2020
SEASONAL UPTICK ON PROPERTY PORTALS – REALLY? Every year property portals, and this year it is ZPG championing the fact that there is an annual spike of activity around Christmas and the New Year on all platforms. Whilst this is true, there is a massive disconnect between Aunt Lizzy tuning into her favourite property website…
Read MoreDAY IN A LIFE … Charlotte Jeffrey-Campbell
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? Today in this series of daily insights is: – Charlotte Jeffrey-Campbell, who is an industry trainer and Director of The Able Agent – Online training and qualifications for estate and…
Read MoreBuilding a green future – with Amazon?
Can we create a built environment which gives more than it takes? Like many personal relationships in the 2020s, the bond between sustainability and real estate is a complicated one. As ensuring the human-created environment is ecologically balanced and has ongoing green credentials is often sacrificed due to the many years needed to recoup the amount of energy…
Read MoreRole of AI in estate agency?
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay, we can’t wind back the clock sixty-five-years and stop the advance of AI, the replication of the neural pathways of the human mind in machines. Take a look around: as Amir Husain from Spark Cognition puts it, “Artificial intelligence is kind of the second coming of software.” and its tendrils are…
Read MoreDAY IN A LIFE …
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 begin this series of daily insights with: – Rob Jones, Co-Founder of newly launched property platform Property.xyz designed by property investors for investors of UK property. Rob tells us he…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 17/12/2020
STAMP DUTY EXTENSION – 77,000 MORE SIGNATURES REQUIRED At present over 23,000 have signed a petition calling for the SDLT holiday to be extended, it needs another 77,000 signatories before parliament will debate it. Seven days ago the government stance was and still is … ‘The SDLT holiday was designed to be a temporary relief…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 16/12/2020
95% MORTGAGES LOANS ARE GOING, GOING WELL ALMOST GONE In what is perceived to be shades of the 2008 stranglehold on high loan to value lending there are now is in December less than a dozen mortgages which only require a 5% deposit. Eleven-months ago the figure was topping out at 400 mortgages to choose…
Read MoreProptech, Science-Fiction for Estate Agents
I first wrote this article over a year ago, the pandemic if anything has made it even more relevant than in November 2019. Back in the mid 1980’s, I became an estate agent (broker) and was at that time an avid reader of science fiction. My favourite book was ‘Machines that think’ a compendium of…
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