Estate Agent Talk
Can We Merge Bitcoin and Real Estate and Is it the Future?
Cryptocurrency; the digital currency that underpins the Blockchain and the “new kid on the block” when it comes to investment assets. Like any child pushing at its limitations and restraints, the recent volatility has caused concern amongst some people. But where some see trouble others see an opportunity. A firm of property developers, GoHomes, recently…
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Why a Private Seller Could Be Your New Best Friend…
It is a well-known fact within the industry that the relationship between private sellers and estate agents has been rather frosty to say the least… For many traditional estate agents, private house sales represented a critical threat to their businesses and undermined the core foundations of the estate agency value proposition. But attitudes towards alternative…
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The Perry Power Story – Part 2
Perry Power is considered by many to be one of the UK’s leading ‘young forward thinking estate agents’
Christopher Watkin
My thoughts on Countrywide
Countrywide’s positioning strategy was to offer even more choices that appealed to everyone…. but trying to appeal to everyone means you appeal to none.
Christopher Watkin
Why You Don’t Need to Worry About Online Estate Agents
Our world is being overcome by the internet; it is spreading across our modern society and encompassing everything in our lives, from talking to friends to selling your house. The internet has revolutionised the property market, changing the way consumers think about property and how to sell, buy, let or rent. Online estate agents have…
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How will GDPR affect Estate Agents?
GDPR is not an acronym which stands for something funny like LOL – it’s an important regulation that every business needs to be made aware of. GDPR is coming into effect in May this year and it will affect your estate agency. We have written what GDPR is and what steps you can take now…
Alex Evans
13,941 members and growing – Estate Agent Networking on LinkedIn
Firstly, if you have not yet joined and are a user of LinkedIn then I invite you to do so now: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3073629 Why should you bother joining and becoming a member? It is free to join groups on LinkedIn and free to obviously join our group! The group already contains over 13,900 highly responsive and active…
Christopher Walkey
Episode 4 .. Top tips for Recruiting People into Your Estate / Letting agency Business [3min video]
Finding the right staff can be a right pain .. let Europe’s No.1 Bu
Christopher Watkin
PurpleBricks – It’s a love or hate relationship isn’t it?
For any news channel, editor, writer, blogger, vlogger, social media marketeer and literally near enough anyone with an opinion to share out to an audience, Purplebricks really gives us some amazing content to tuck in to in order to keep our readers and viewers engaged. Love them or hate them, use them or not, save…
Christopher Walkey
How is the high street coping with online agents?
When I opened my own full service ‘online’ agency 6 years ago, I knew that there was an opening for something different. My opinion was somewhere in between the fully optimistic “the high street is dead” and the traditional “sellers want local offices” as I believed that there was room for both, in various forms,…
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Why Does A London Business Address Hold Such Power?
There are a number of reasons why London hosts 40 percent of the European headquarters of the world’s top companies. Despite the high prices, the congestion and the weather, businesses large and small are choosing to base their operations here. But why does this fantastic city still hold so much weight in the business world?…
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Why you need to be more than ‘just’ an estate agency
Morning %FIRSTNAME% I’ve spent a good bit of time this week working on award entries for a fantastic family run agency on the south coast. Their doing so many things right that it’s absolutely no surprise they are number one on their patch (according to Rightmove, not just some plucked from the air chest thump)….
Jerry Lyons
Successful recovery of over £13k in unpaid sales commission…
My client, an award-winning London based Estate and Lettings Agent with over 30 years’ experience in residential and commercial sales, letting and property management, recently instructed me to act for them in connection with the recovery of over £13,000 of unpaid sales commission. This was by no means a straightforward case and serves as an…
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Showcase your properties at the most beautiful time of the day
Dusk photography is fantastic for attracting interest in your properties, and using twilight shots can make your listings stand out. In fact, dusk photography is proven to improve click-through rates on property portals; resonating with our primal need for shelter, warmth and protection. But you don’t have to take our word for it. An Australian…
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The One Thing I learned Yesterday Which Could Help Estate Agents
I spent most of yesterday up in Milton Keynes – the home of a hundred roundabouts. My day was spent at a marketing conference held at the MK Dons Football Stadium. Some of the great and good of marketing were there, proper experts (and a boring bloke who delivered one of the dullest presentations I’ve…
Jerry Lyons