Posts by Christopher Walkey
DIRECT LINE LANDLORD INSURANCE PARTNERS WITH LBC FOR ‘THE PROPERTY HOUR’
New LBC programme ‘The Property Hour’ in association with Direct Line Landlord Insurance will be co-hosted by LBC presenter Clive Bull and Landlord Action’s Paul Shamplina The segment will run every Thursday from 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm for 13 weeks starting on 10th March The segment will see the presenters inviting the public to…
Read MoreShelter & Quod take a look at London homes and brownfield site situation.
A recent analysis of London’s land shows that the majority of brownfield land is already being used for housing. A report carried out by Quod (Planning consultancy), viewable here, shows how the City of London is looking with brownfield plots and the distribution of this across housing, hospitals, schools, transportation etc. “Single solutions such as…
Read MoreGoogle showcases #raterAgent stars
Google now features raterAgent’s ‘star ratings’ on its search results. Confirming that it will only show what it considers structurally ‘valid’ star ratings, the international search giant, Google, has allocated visible stars to raterAgent’s branch listings less than a year after the review site’s formal launch. “We’re delighted that Google has seen fit to acknowledge…
Read MoreA weeks worth of Estate Agent Leaflets through the letterbox.
Firstly, why letterbox? It’s strange the way we adopt a phrase for describing something that it just isn’t quite the thing in question, surely, as per Wikipedia, letter hole would be better? “A slot in a wall or door through which mail is delivered (through-door delivery)” Source, Wikipedia. Anyway, I decided to collect the weekly Estate…
Read MoreEstate Agent Networking London – Where the Industry Professionals meet.
Following the rapid success of Estate Agent Networking online, we want to take the concept of bringing Estate Agents and Industry Service Providers closer together with regular social events in London. In association with Anastasia Fox-Cavendish, founder of Orsopolis, we invite Estate / Letting Agents and Industry Service Providers to attend our relaxed evening of networking with a…
Read MoreINDUSTRY INTERVIEW, Kiran Dhaliwal, CEO WeeFees LTD.
Why does the UK Property Industry need WeeFees? WeeFees helps both traditional and online agents secure more instructions by providing exclusive qualified leads. Traditional methods of winning new instructions can be costly. Every valuation that fails to convert, wastes time and effort, and this ultimately translates to a monetary value. With WeeFees, agents have the…
Read MoreLSL pay £9.1 Million for a percentage of Colchester based Mortgage Company.
I spent a leisurely afternoon last Friday, after the news was made public, with one of the smaller share holders of the very recent LSL deal to purchase 65% of the Colchester based Mortgage First business, and I rejoice with them in the rewards that sticking at a business and within a industry sector for a number…
Read MoreReapit and raterAgent announce partnership.
Reapit and raterAgent have partnered up to help agents win more business and strengthen their fees by maximising their use of testimonials from their current and past clients. Agents using Reapit’s RPS software will now be able to generate an e-mail to a contact directly from the software requesting a raterAgent review. The free integration…
Read MoreINDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Richard Rawlings of Agent Masterclass.
Richard Rawlings is a name that I am sure many will have heard of, but how exactly to did you become involved in the UK property industry? I started off as a young agent in Kensington over 30 years ago and was approached to manage Winkworth in Fulham at the age of 23. We were…
Read MoreBury a statue to sell a house?
Now one thing for sure, in most locations and in most occasions, home owners are in very little need of help to sell their property. Even just recently, as first reported on the Telegraph website, you can sell a property these day even if it is run down and a flea pit. Are we really…
Read MoreAreas of the country at risk if Interest Rates Rise.
Interest rate rises, well we have been speaking about this now for years or what now seems decades and we are yet to see them as the government knows the real risk to the country as a whole when they do in fact have to raise them. Locations across the country do vary in regards…
Read MoreINDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Alex Thorpe, MD of NetAnAgent.
Where did the idea for NetAnAgent originate from? Netanagent.com came about after two colleagues instructed the same agent, in the same area, to sell similar properties. One had agreed an agent’s fee of nearly double the other, for an identical service. Based on this experience we felt that there was an opportunity to develop a service which would promote much needed transparency…
Read MoreConfidence in UK Commercial Property Development being at it’s lowest.
Recent survey from Savills point to confidence in UK Commercial Property Development being at it’s lowest since April 2013 – Growing the fears that the European referendum is hitting confidence among developers. There was positive in that January saw an increase in activity of 8.4% compared to 4.5% in December. Fewer new planning consents are…
Read MoreUpdate on Estate Agent Networking – 67,000 + and growing…
When you go about things in a completely different way, when you build something new, when you haven’t a rule book to refer to, then sometimes your progress will go unnoticed and when you start getting results, you will be referred to as the dark horse. Now, not quite sure we are at the dark horse…
Read MoreNew recommendations for those who rate Estate Agents:
Of recent times, the review space in the UK Estate/ Letting Agency industry has heated up somewhat especially with the launch of raterAgent led by Malcolm McCallion impacting on the industry monopoly that AllAgents appeared to have. More and more are entering this field now, I was recently contacted by Feefo who’s approach is different…
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