Posts by Alex Evans
Why the UK Estate Agency market needs an Open Data revolution?
The real estate portal business in the UK is perhaps witnessing its biggest shift in the past 10 years. The change is, of course, prompted by the launch of OnTheMarket, a new property portal, created by a some of the largest high street estate agents to challenge the dominance of the two biggest portals, Rightmove…
Read MoreVIDEO: The Growing Population of Women in Property.
If you had the power how would you boost the representation of women in the industry?
Read MoreSELECTING THE RIGHT ESTATE AGENT FOR YOU.
When it comes to selecting the right estate agent for the sale of your property, it can be a daunting process, hopefully the following post may assist your decision. A good local reputation and strong knowledge of the area together with recommendations from existing clients who have already sold can all be very helpful. However…
Read MoreVIDEO: Lack of young talent in block management?
How would go about making the block management sector more appealing to the future work force? Kelly Bream shares her thoughts here:
Read MorePROPERTY WEBSITE DESIGN TRENDS 2015.
Every year we see changes in the way that websites are designed and how they function from a user’s perspective. Many of these changes are driven by the biggest players in the market such as Google who often outline what they expect to see from companies creating a new website. Generally changes in design and…
Read MoreHouse staging: the power of first impressions.
Last Saturday I decided to kill two birds with one stone (or combine ‘pleasant’ with ‘productive’ as they say in Polish), so I grabbed some leaflets advertising our home staging services and took our dog Eric for a walk in a Very Nice Neighbourhood. I thought to myself, if I need to walk him anyway,…
Read MoreWhy you should write a blog (even if no one reads it)!
If you’re reading this blog, you’re one of the literally tens of other people that tune in on a regular basis to hear my innovative insights and tales of experience. But it wasn’t always this way… When I started blogging no one was listening, like a crazy man yelling his musings into an empty room.…
Read MoreWomen in Property and Construction.
Women currently represent only 11% of the construction workforce in the UK? Most of these jobs are office based and only 2% work in manual jobs. Although there are a number of companies working hard on projects to change these statistics, it still confuses me why they are so low in the first place. An…
Read MoreHow to get the best property deal from an estate agent.
The real estate or the property market all over the world has reached to its pinnacle. The economist all over the world considers this industry as one of the rising industries along with tourism or I.T. With a proper flow of money in this industry has gained a standard growth over these last few years.…
Read MoreHow apps can make tenants lives easier (as well as your own).
This is our first article idea that we’ve received from our social media community! Thanks very much for the suggestion Rentals London and indeed this is a great question. Focusing specifically on the rentals side of things, we’ll look at not just how apps make your tenants lives easier, finding properties faster and with more information,…
Read MoreHow to build your Twitter following.
With 64% of users being more likely to buy from brands they follow on Twitter, it’s easy to see why businesses are keen to build a presence on the network. However most often, businesses sign up hastily and expect a quick response to their efforts before building a strong and importantly, relevant following. But how…
Read More2015: The Year That Will Change The Industry.
In this short article Rajeev Nayyar of Fixflo looks at three of the key changes that are coming and will affect your business. Buyers From April pension holders over the age of 55 will be trusted to use their pension funds as they see fit. With the FTSE 100 having fallen by more than 40%…
Read MoreSEO for Estate Agents – Is it worth the hassle & cost?
Search Engine Optimisation for Estate Agents –Is it worth the hassle & cost? The following is a real-world example (analysis carried out December 2014) of an Estate Agency in Bromley trying to determine whether they should employ an SEO company to ‘get them to the top of Google’ on the basis of potential ‘floating’ Vendors…
Read MoreAgents, stand out by taking the strategic approach to sharing content on social media
To be successful with social media marketing, you should aim to create a good balance between promoting your own estate or letting agency business, and engaging with others. It’s all too easy to get carried away and side-tracked, and without structure, this can lead to sharing too many self-promoting posts which can prevent engagement and…
Read MoreSome Pro Tips for taking Better Property Photographs.
In the arena of real estate, great photos are becoming more and more pivotal in marketing a home. Perfectly taken photos of a property will enrapture the eyes of home seekers instantaneously. On the other side, badly lit and wonky images are disheartening and transfer a property to the ‘check it later’ list. There are…
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