Posts by Christopher Walkey
The 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…
Read MoreLandlord Action appeals to Ministry of Justice to transfer more evictions to the High Court.
The length of time it is taking to get a County Court bailiff appointment once a possession order has been granted, in some cases up to three months, is having considerable financial impact on landlords. As a result, Landlord Action is campaigning to enable more eviction cases to be transferred up to the High Court…
Read MoreStudents pay a higher price to attend top universities.
– Latest research from Accommodationforstudents.com reveals average weekly student rent for 2015 is £82.09, up just £1.43 from 2014. Rents have risen consistently by an average of £1.67 each year since 2010 – Six of the UKs top universities (according to The Complete University Guide for 2016) are in the top ten most expensive cities…
Read More“Zoopla’s trading update underlines success of OnTheMarket”:
Ian Springett, Chief Executive of OnTheMarket.com, said: “Zoopla Property Group’s trading update only serves to underline the success and progress of OnTheMarket.com in continuing to disrupt the property portals market. Its tepid growth of 213 agent branches since its April 2015 update is a drop in the ocean in the context of its 23% loss…
Read MoreWhat is #PropTech and how does it work?
It is not some geeky language that is shared by school leavers sat up in their bedrooms sharing special digits and codes and neither is it some high tech marketing skill that goes way above your head when presented to you (well the build of it may be complicated, but how it is presented certainly…
Read MorePropTech News on Estate Agent Networking!
Just a very quick announcement to say that we have now a dedicated section for all topics related to PropTech. This subject is quite an open one and covers many sectors of the industry, but with so many new ideas and many new businesses launching recently we thought that a section for those within this…
Read MoreInnovation vs Traditional Methods in Estate Agency.
Yesterday I read an interesting piece from Michelle Wilden on LinkedIn regarding innovation in estate agency and thought that I would dig out the blog below that I had written a few weeks back to give another take on how innovation can play a part in helping estate agents gain a greater share. Innovation is…
Read MoreHow to attract buyers? With a Morgan Three-Wheeler!
Michael Riley, Director of Capital & Coastal, an estate agency specialising in the sale and let of property with water frontage, sea views and coastal locations along the South coast, has invested in a rather unusual company vehicle, the Morgan Three-Wheeler. The former Head of Sales for Savills and Head of Operations for Romans in…
Read MoreFixflo Webinar Wednesday 5th August 2015! Book your spot ASAP!
Fixflo, leading online repair-report system, will be having their very first webinar on Wednesday 5th August. To book your place, simply visit the following link: http://www.fixflo.com/webinar/home?utm_content=buffer02d25&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Estate / Letting Agents across the country are choosing Fixflo for their online property management needs with now over 1,000 using their highly recommended report system. For a 14 day FREE TRIAL…
Read MoreKelly Hoppen MBE: Estate Agent Networking Exclusive Interview.
We are very pleased to share with you an exclusive interview with Kelly Hoppen MBE who’s a leading authority in English Interior Designing and also an author and proprietor of Kelly Hoppen Interiors and was once a Dragon too (BBC Dragons Den)! 1. Should people invest in interior design when selling their homes to achieve a better…
Read MoreLandlord Action commissioned for second series of ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’
Channel Five bosses have agreed the eye-opening first series of ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ has only scratched the surface of the issues faced when the relationships between landlords and tenants break down. With the last episode in the current series due to air on Wednesday 29th July, a second series featuring Landlord Action has been…
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