Posts by Christopher Walkey
Upward trend in Social Media Marketing.
Social media as a topic is as simple or complicated as you make it out to be in your mind. The rules that I tell people are that social media comes in two forms, good news and bad news. The good news is that it is Free to use and that you do not need…
Read MoreBlog writing – How to get past writer’s block:
I have been quite amazed at the recent, certainly during 2015, surge in interest from Estate Agencies searching for content to share online, either to populate their social media channels or simply to include within the latest blog on their website. I have spoken to quite a few who have asked for recommendations of subjects…
Read MoreAgent helps landlords prepare for the latest fire safety regulations.
Townends Estate Agents is urging landlords to implement new fire regulations now to ensure they are compliant before the new legislation, relating to smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, comes into force on 10th October 2015. Townends’ Home Safety Kits, which go beyond basic requirements, give landlords the reassurance they are fully compliant, avoiding a heavy…
Read MoreThe Property Ombudsman expels Allen & Crane Estates for two years following landlord complaint.
Allen & Crane Estates, a sales and lettings agent based in Burnham near Slough, has been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with numerous elements of the Code of Practice for Residential Letting Agents and subsequently failing to pay an Ombudsman’s award made…
Read MoreTweeting and your profile on Twitter has a real value?
With millions of them being sent every day and shared amongst a multi million membership of businesses, consumers and ‘spam’ accounts, has a Tweet any real value as it’s surely just a tiny drop in a very big ocean when it comes to your voice being actually heard for real? Let us say that Tweeting…
Read MoreMT Properties Central Limited Expelled from The Property Ombudsman for 2 years.
MT Properties Central Limited (MTPC), a sales and letting agent which operates in Birmingham, has been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with parts of the TPO Code of Practice for Residential Letting Agents. MTPC also failed to co-operate with the Ombudsman’s investigation…
Read More“Buy-to-let Tax cuts won’t put landlords off” says Waterfords.
Following the Chancellor’s summer Budget, in which he announced a substantial crackdown on mortgage interest tax relief, Brendan Cox of Waterfords says he does not think this will put people off investing in buy-to-let. The amount landlords can claim as relief will, from 2017, be set at the basic rate of tax – currently 20…
Read MoreWhat will the budget changes mean for the capital’s property market?
As George Osborne increases the inheritance tax threshold to £1m for married couples by 2017 and cuts mortgage interest relief on buy-to-let homes, Andrew Ellinas, Director of Central and North West London agency Sandfords, comments on what these changes will be mean for the Capital’s property market. “Changes to inheritance tax, allowing married couples and…
Read MoreChannel 4 documentary #DirtyRussianMoney, what was your take on things?
Across social media this topic was ‘warmly’ spoken about and at times increased to ‘heated’ discussions, especially across Twitter. What was your views on things, many say it was merely a show that stitched up Estate Agents in London… ?? Please share your views on here on via Twitter with us on http://www.twitter.com/eauknetworking or a…
Read MoreAs predicted, Government shines light on buy-to-let to tackle housing crisis.
Prior to the Election in May 2015, Michael Riley, Director of Capital & Coastal, correctly predicted that despite which party came into power, it would only be a matter of time before the new Government “shone a light” on the buy-to-let industry as a way of tackling the lack of stock driving the country’s housing…
Read MoreLandlord faces agent who owes her £20,000.
Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ is set to show how one rogue operator gives good letting agents a bad name. Margaret Wilson faces the agent that owes her £20,000 in a perfectly captured showdown on Wednesday 8th July at 9pm. Margaret Wilson owns two rental properties in Oxfordshire. Two years ago she handed them…
Read MoreSocial Media and a few words of advice…
Sooner or later (most likely sooner) social media will not form such a question as ‘are you using social media‘ and be more the case of ‘what is your social media username‘, I mean you hardly hear anyone saying these days ‘do you have a telephone number‘ or ‘do you use email‘? Such is the importance…
Read MoreNews: @RaterAgent web traffic on upward trend, but still behind @Allagentsuk…
Just 5 months since its creation – and 2 months since its formal launch – raterAgent is already the second most-popular, dedicated estate and letting agent review site in the UK. Using Alexa.com rankings – verified by that site’s owners, Amazon.com – the graph below shows how, in the 5 months since our ‘beta’ launch,…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Ian Thomas, Marketing Director, OnBoard Pro.
What is OnBoard Pro? OnBoard Pro is a professional software company that uses the latest technology to equip busy Letting Agents with cloud based applications that transform the complex processes that are associated with a tenant application and move in. The result is more robust and much quicker than current methods. OnBoard Pro is challenging…
Read More#OnTheMarket continues to break traffic records:
Onthemarket are delighted to tell you that they have seen another record breaking month in terms of traffic to OnTheMarket.com. 4.4 million visits Over 2 million unique visitors They are continuing to see strong engagement from consumers in terms of pages viewed per visit and time on site and a high percentage of repeat visitors. This reflects both the quality…
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