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Would Tier 5 close down Estate Agency business?
As rumours circulate on a new tier 5 from the government, many in estate agency are questioning what effect this will have in the operating of selling property. Tier 4 we are in with tier 5 looking likely and as Buzz Lightyear would say, maybe even tier infinity and beyond is starring at us on…
Christopher Walkey
How to improve the value of your property
If you’re on a mission to increase the value of your house, then you better be sure that no feature in your house, be it in your bathroom, kitchen or even your basement is out of order. Fortunately, DIY influencer Kimberly Duran provides expert tips that will help you get around any issue that you…
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Will Santa be visiting you this Christmas?
With huge swathes of the UK effectively in lockdown, and despite smiling, friendly bobbies helping London exit at the packed railway termini, Christmas is not its usual self. With whispers of food shortages, a knife-edge hard Brexit, and the new strain of Covid-19 to contend with, my thoughts turn to what is Santa, if Lapland…
Andrew Stanton
Can the housing market carry on as before?
At twenty past seven on Saturday night just before ‘Strictly’ had crowned its newest winner; Robert Jenrick the Housing Secretary tweeted ‘Housing market update: the sales and rental markets remain open in all tiers. All associated activities can continue as before.’ If this means that even if you live and work in a Tier-4 area,…
Andrew Stanton
Building a green future – with Amazon?
Can we create a built environment which gives more than it takes? Like many personal relationships in the 2020s, the bond between sustainability and real estate is a complicated one. As ensuring the human-created environment is ecologically balanced and has ongoing green credentials is often sacrificed due to the many years needed to recoup the amount of energy…
Andrew Stanton
5 Factors that Largely Influence the Property Market
Planning to invest in real estate? If so, there are a lot of things you will need to learn, this includes the driving forces behind the property market. You must understand what makes the prices of properties rise and fall to make well-informed decisions. If you are interested to learn more, keep on reading as…
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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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