Estate Agent Talk
Would you ever advise your clients to sell or rent their properties privately?
Estate & Letting Agents: Would you ever advise your clients to sell or rent their properties privately? If not, please allow me to give you ten good reasons why you will require a broker when you feel that the time is right to sell your business. PREPARATION – It is not every day that you…
Peter Nicholls
So You Want an Easy Life? Then You Had Better Start Planning for the Future.
Do most young, ambitious self- employed business people think seriously about their retirement or retirement planning when at the supposed peak of their powers? I have a strong suspicion that those who would readily admit to it, would certainly be in a minority. I think that it would be misguided to say that when you…
Peter Nicholls
CIELA again shrugs off sabre-rattling by PurpleBricks lawyers:
CIELA again shrugs off sabre-rattling by PurpleBricks lawyers, reiterates public request for substantiation of “completed sale” rate. In response to this Telegraph article, PurpleBricks’s lawyers have written to CIELA for a second time claiming that the statement by CIELA Founder Charlie Wright is defamatory. CIELA has today (Wednesday) responded (attached) to Norton Fulbright’s letter dismissing their letter…
Christopher Walkey
To hybrid or not to hybrid?
That is the question many estate agents are facing a market place where purple… and the like are changing the landscape and the traditional agent is left with a declining market share and decreasing fees. Do we stick or spin? I made the decision to spin some time ago and whilst I believe it will…
EAN Content
Why Anthony Joshua would make a Champion Estate Agent
On Saturday night in front on 90,000 people in Wembley Stadium and millions watching on TV across the globe a new sporting mega star was born. Step forward the Heavyweight Champion of the World ………Anthony Joshua. In 11 pulsating rounds against a brave and brilliant challenger our AJ proved himself to be the real deal….
Jerry Lyons
Share sites to make more brownfield land available:
The director of one of the country’s most respected land brokers is calling on planners, architects and builders to increase the amount of site sharing on new construction land across the UK. Charles Hesse from Aston Mead Land & Planning says the idea of putting similar companies and organisations together on the same site would…
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Question: Would you like to See an Improvement in the Overall Standard of Service in UK Estate Agency?
Answer: Then it Could Be Time to Get Radical and Make Your Voice Heard. I read an article quite recently in The Daily Telegraph that publicised The Property Ombudsman, Katrine Sporle’s call for UK estate agents to “raise their standards”, in the light of the most recent figures (2015) – confirming a 32 per cent…
Peter Nicholls
How does Estate Agent Networking really work?
We do receive many questions as to how exactly does Estate Agent Networking work and how it differs from other industry news channels. Thought it time for another update! Firstly and most importantly, the platform is driven by the power of social media and the large active and target communities following and engaging with us….
Christopher Walkey
UK Estate Agency: Things aren’t what they used to be?
Last week I wrote an article titled “What is the worst kept secret in UK estate agency?” which, judging by the high readership numbers, seemed to find some resonance amongst both fellow estate agents and those who work in and around the property sector generally. Primarily, I wrote the piece with a view to broadening…
Peter Nicholls
Are you the most irritating agent in your area?
What’s your take on networking? I hate it. Actually let me qualify that. I hate the word networking. It’s such a clunky way of describing people just meeting up and talking. I like meeting people, like chatting (it’s the Irish in me) but despise hard selling. I was at a ‘networking’ event recently as a…
Jerry Lyons
Small Independent Estate Agency – A Question of the Survival of the Fittest?
Sadly, it would seem that we live in a world where at present being small and on the high street is currently out of fashion. Why has this view (particularly amongst the young) percolated in more recent times? I would strongly suspect that it has much to do with the way our general shopping habits…
Peter Nicholls
PROFESSIONAL RISK ASSOCIATED WITH PROPERTY PROFESSIONALS
The following paper provides an update on the modern day risks associated with UK property professionals and how the current UK professional indemnity insurance (PI) market is responding. Business Closures And Run Off Cover Since our report of 12 months ago we have seen the industry press consumed with articles concerning stamp duty reform and…
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Investor Warning: What Happens To the “Disrupters” When They Lose Their Power to Disrupt?
I read an article quite recently titled “Purplebricks gets stock market commentator support – if strategy pays off” written in response to an article by columnist Ian Pierce on the investment website, Motley Fool. Sadly, there were no great revelations in Ian’s article, but he did quite rightly strike one or two notes of caution…
Peter Nicholls
Can your agent afford to give you time?
At the time of writing this, I have toothache. Real bad toothache. The sort where you can’t sleep and just don’t know what to do with yourself. I need a dentist. The internet can’t help me, googling toothache doesn’t help. I need the help of a professional. An expert in their field and somebody who…
Michelle Gallagher
Countrywide Group – The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
I wonder if I am alone in my perception that over recent months it has become quite ‘fashionable’ for fellow estate agents and industry observers alike, to snipe and poke fun at the ‘comings and goings’ at Countrywide Group in the trade press and social media. Somewhat inevitable I suppose, but is such criticism fair?…
Peter Nicholls