Posts by Christopher Walkey
Landlords and tenants in despair as Oliver Knights shuts shop.
Landlords and tenants are in despair as a London letting agent, Oliver Knights, is thought to have closed down, owing thousands of pounds in unpaid rent and holding deposits. Landlord Action had been instructed only weeks ago to recover more than £10,000 for one landlord and £8,000 for another, but with signs the company has…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Stephen Moss, CEO of Pring.co.uk
What brought you to launch Pring.co.uk? I launched Pring.co.uk to address a gap in the market for a dedicated search engine for investment properties. There was nowhere that brought together all the vital calculations and figures needed to work out if a property is a viable investment. Instead, investors, like myself, would have to spend…
Read MoreWaterfords celebrates 20 years as a leading local estate agent.
On Tuesday 1st September, Waterfords turned 20. To celebrate this special occasion, the Waterfords team spent the week in Camberley town centre running competitions, raising over £400 for local homeless charity, Step by Step, and catching up with happy home owners. From Monday 31st August to Sunday 6th September, the Waterfords team set up home…
Read MoreSome Top Tips for Twitter:
Create yourself a professional and relevant profile. Make sure you put to good use your profile image and text to include linking to your website. Publish Quality Content that Your Target Users will Find Interesting. By sharing great content people will in turn share that great content out also expanding your reach. Be Social on…
Read MoreTweet that out for me please CR7.
Yes it is so very true, you can not halt the progress of technology and I would also say the same thing about Social Media and how we are seeing amazing advances in how it is being used in our day to day lives and also in the world of business. I am not sure…
Read MoreYou are now the relied upon News Channel people are looking for.
Advances in the amount of media channels we have in our world both increases the chances of you gaining fame (for yourself or your business) and also decreases it especially when compared to how things were years ago. I recently watched an old documentary on YouTube about Jimmy White the snooker player and something he…
Read MoreOnTheMarket achieves more traffic growth in August.
OnTheMarket.com is delighted to announce that its traffic figures increased again throughout August to achieve another record breaking month. The website achieved more than 5.4million visits* – a rise of more than 220,000 compared to the previous month. It also attracted more than 2.5million* unique visitors, an increase of 100,000 compared with July. Ian Springett, Chief…
Read MoreThe Property Ombudsman expels London agent for two years following tenant complaint.
Bruten & Co Limited, a sales and lettings agent based in Notting Hill Gate, London, has been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with parts of the Code of Practice for Residential Letting Agents and failing to pay an Ombudsman’s award made of…
Read MoreCOUNTRY LIFE AND ONTHEMARKET.COM ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Country Life and OnTheMarket.com have agreed a partnership to create a co-branded online UK property search on the Country Life website which has gone live. Country Life, owned by Time Inc UK, is one of the UK’s most iconic magazine brands. Since 1897, it has covered the glorious British countryside, and is famous for featuring…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Daniel Caplan, CEO of New i.d Interiors.
Should people invest in interior design when selling their homes to achieve a better sale price? Having your property interior designed will always help with the saleability of any property. It is all about that first impression and it is a known fact that a prospective purchaser will make their mind up whether they like…
Read MoreThe Property Ombudsman promotes TSI approved Codes of Practice in Sunderland.
The Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer recently attended an event organised by Sunderland City Council to promote its Accredited Landlord’s Scheme, a new partnership launched to improve and maintain standards of accommodation in the private rented sector. Christopher spoke about the importance of the redress scheme explaining what TPO represents, how he operates and his role…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Frazer Fearnhead, Founder of The House Crowd.
What is The House Crowd? The House Crowd was the first property crowd funding website in the world. We offer a hassle-free way for people to invest in property. We started trading in early 2012 and have helped democratise the property investment process opening up to many people who were previously unable to benefit from property investment.…
Read MoreNew Letting Agency Award To Highlight Great Service.
Following the success of raterAgent’s ‘Estate Agent of the Month’ award, which has seen hundreds of agent branches vying for the exclusive trophy each month in 2015, the innovative rating and review website has teamed up with Fixflo to launch a new, lettings-specific monthly award. Free for any letting agent branch to enter, all they…
Read MoreGiving #PropTech a chance? Names to look out for…
New ideas in Property, Innovation in Property, new property startups and more are all subjects relating to what is now an industry sector in itself, #PropTech. Slowly, but surely, we are seeing not only more and more new #Proptech companies entering the industry, but their services / products being adopted by estate / letting agents…
Read MoreBBC Property Expert Opens Estate Agency with a ‘Difference’ in West Cheshire.
An estate agent who co-presented a popular BBC property programme has opened a new venture in West Cheshire. Scott Lucy enjoyed four years working on the “Living in the Sun” series with Nadia Sawalah and the late Kristian Digby where he was its Spanish Property Expert. The father of two has now swapped the Costa…
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