Estate Agent Talk
Easy Methods to Raise Funds to Build your Property
In this time of uncertainty about the future, property development remains one of the more resilient investments. There are many options for raising funds to finance this, and given below are a few suggestions. However, for professional guidance in making the right decision, it is best to approach an experienced financial consultant. Almost all financing…
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Role of AI in estate agency?
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay, we can’t wind back the clock sixty-five-years and stop the advance of AI, the replication of the neural pathways of the human mind in machines. Take a look around: as Amir Husain from Spark Cognition puts it, “Artificial intelligence is kind of the second coming of software.” and its tendrils are…
Andrew Stanton
Proptech, Science-Fiction for Estate Agents
I first wrote this article over a year ago, the pandemic if anything has made it even more relevant than in November 2019. Back in the mid 1980’s, I became an estate agent (broker) and was at that time an avid reader of science fiction. My favourite book was ‘Machines that think’ a compendium of…
Andrew Stanton
Cash buyers who needs them?
If I had a fiver for every time, I had a buyer who said they were a cash buyer over the past 30-years, well I would have an awful of of extra cash myself. The amount of times I have witnessed that triumphant smile when a prospective buyer looked me in the eye and said,…
Andrew Stanton
Sell a House That’s Not Selling
Have you been trying to sell a home but you are having a hard time? If you have been trying to sell your home for a long time and not succeeding, then the best thing to do is try out new tactics. It is impossible to control the housing market, but there are some problems…
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Brexit & The Property Market
Hard of soft, not Boris Johnson’s choice of boiled egg, but how Brexit unfolds will have an affect on the property market. As Carol Lewis writing in the Sunday Times recently summed it, ‘The average UK homeowner made more money from their home in the first ten months of this year than in the preceding…
Andrew Stanton
Property 2021 Feast or Famine?
In three and a half decades in property, 2020 was for me and I am sure you, the most exciting, devastating white knuckle ride that I can remember. Like a badly mixed cocktail, with shots of alcohol/events that should never share the same glass, and two cocktail umbrellas, one Brexit the other Covid-19, it is…
Andrew Stanton
It is a Cliff
A fortnight before Christmas and there are more cliff-hangers than reindeers on Santa’s sledge, let us go through the seasonal pre-Xmas list. Countrywide PLC – a tug of love between Connells, a proven model of profitability and other factions that ‘have a plan’ but have not had their mettle tested. In truth needing the backing…
Andrew Stanton
How to choose the right estate agent to sell your home
Choosing the right estate agent is essential. Moving to a new house is a huge decision and can be very stressful, so it’s vital that you find someone that you like and trust to help you with the process. If you are looking to put your home on the market soon, here are some tips…
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Regulation or Education – What is the best for Real Estate?
I believe in education, qualifications and developing yourself, as everyone now is very much their own person and own brand. Being a consultant for real estate and proptech I fully support the argument that property professionals – need to keep up with industry changes. But there are two camps of thought, on one side Baron…
Andrew Stanton
9 Garage Upgrades That Increase Your Home’s Value
When you hear the word garage, what comes into your mind? Have you thought of a car, too? Well, that’s given. Many people tend to associate the garage with a space to store your car, but unknowingly, there are other things you can do within your garage area. Here’s a quick fact: upgrading your garage…
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Contaminants that stain the facades of high rise commercial buildings
High rise buildings are part of our cities’ characters and identities. But even the most impressive looking building can lose their shine and look dirty, particularly when they have precast and concrete facades. As a building owner, how do you identify the source of pollution? This is the key to removing the problem stains and…
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Affordable Housing Crisis – London Mayor Candidate proposes Modular Housing?
There has for a long time been an affordable housing problem in London. It used to be primarily the central areas that had unaffordability, but this trend spread out to the outer city areas and cheaper regions suddenly became expensive thanks to the likes of buy to let drives and also over crowding. No longer…
Christopher Walkey
Deal or No Deal- Why the Sale of Countrywide Matters
As I write this I must declare an interest before I start, I am grateful to Countrywide as I started my agency career with them in the 1980’s and in my first year, I earnt five-times my previous salary pre-agency, and became a manager with a brand new BMW. Back then graft, service and esprit…
Andrew Stanton
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!
Prior to my epiphany with Proptech a few years ago, try saying that with a few seasonal drinks inside you; I was a traditional property man, a stalwart of the status quo, and slow to adapt to change. Not quite one of the ‘if it is not broken don’t fix it’ brigade but close. Now…
Andrew Stanton