Industry Interviews
Industry Interview: Jerry Lyons of Property Expert
Is having a strong online presence important for estate and letting agents? Yes, absolutely. Your agency will be judged by the way your website looks as a starting point and how user friendly it is. Other ways you can build your digital profile to win instructions are: Use social media regularly. Have a weekly /…
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Industry Interview: Melanie Peters of Waterside Properties in Dorset
Is the way that Estate Agents engage with consumers changing? Is social media, apps and website having a greater importance than leafleting, local newspaper adverts and high street presence? Social media is certainly a very important way of showcasing individual businesses. We as an agency have devoted a great deal of time to our Twitter…
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Industry Interview: Catherine Lamond, MD of Nethouseprices
How can Estate Agents benefit from using Nethouseprices? We started in 2004 as one of the first websites that had the Land Registry sold price data. Our site is visited by home movers and landlords wanting to see what is happening to the housing market, their home value and property investments before they make a…
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Industry Interview: Jack Barnett Director, Rent North East
Do you feel that more should be done to regulate the lettings industry and help improve the reputation of it? Many suffer from a few rogue traders it would seem. Absolutely. Landlords and tenants don’t feel that they have a clear idea of what they should be entitled to. Regulating the industryÿcould serve to bring…
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Industry Interview – Harry Conti from FreshRent
Where did the idea of FreshRent come from? About 2 years ago my business partner and I were searching for student accommodation from home, we couldn’t pop into a branch as we were back home, miles away from campus. We decided to look online at website like AccommodationForStudents and Rightmove, but the websites felt outdated,…
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INDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Claire Bloom, Interior Designer & Interior Architect / Stylist.
We are pleased to be working with Claire Bloom, an experienced Interior Designer and stylist who will now be sharing key tips about presenting property with Estate Agent Networking. We asked Claire some questions: Does ‘Interior Designing’ actually help to increase the value of your property or is it just for the benefit of the home…
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INDUSTRY INTERVIEW, Kiran Dhaliwal, CEO WeeFees LTD.
Why does the UK Property Industry need WeeFees? WeeFees helps both traditional and online agents secure more instructions by providing exclusive qualified leads. Traditional methods of winning new instructions can be costly. Every valuation that fails to convert, wastes time and effort, and this ultimately translates to a monetary value. With WeeFees, agents have the…
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INDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Richard Rawlings of Agent Masterclass.
Richard Rawlings is a name that I am sure many will have heard of, but how exactly to did you become involved in the UK property industry? I started off as a young agent in Kensington over 30 years ago and was approached to manage Winkworth in Fulham at the age of 23. We were…
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INDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Alex Thorpe, MD of NetAnAgent.
Where did the idea for NetAnAgent originate from? Netanagent.com came about after two colleagues instructed the same agent, in the same area, to sell similar properties. One had agreed an agent’s fee of nearly double the other, for an identical service. Based on this experience we felt that there was an opportunity to develop a service which would promote much needed transparency…
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INDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Iain White from Agency Mentors.
You have been a name in the industry for a number of years now, has there been a big change in the way that we sell homes these days? The legal process has remained largely the same, the mortgage market is significantly different now and lenders are far more cautious in what they will lend…
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Industry Interview: Celia Sawyer, Business Women & Interior Designer.
What made you want to go into interior designing? In my first apartment I decided to try and add value by adding another floor. I had to think through what and how this would work in unison with the interior, as well as how to keep my budget to a minimum yet achieve the maximum…
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Interview: Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods – Shadow Minister for Housing & Planning.
Following the vote passing the “Housing and Planning Bill”, by 309 to 216 we thought we would get the feedback from some MP’s from around the country. The ones we approached on Twitter included Sadiq Khan (MP for Tooting) and Zac Goldsmith, (MP for Richmond Park & North Kingston) though responsive to us and open to sharing her opinions…
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Industry Interview: Justin Jordan from Loyalty Street.
Where did the idea for Loyalty Street come from? The idea came about when I was selling my home. Like most people, I wanted was a good quality estate agent at a fair price. I didn’t have a lot of time on my hands as at the time was I selling a business. When I searched…
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Industry Interview: Sarah Beeny, Founder of Tepilo.
What made you come up with the idea of Tepilo? The idea for my online estate agency grew from my astonishment at how much ‘traditional’ high-street estate agents were charging to do things that vendors could do themselves, and in fact, do better! For example, who can give as thorough and detailed information on a…
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Industry Interview: Roy Condrey, Founder DiedInHouse.com
The idea came about when a tenant of mine texted me in the middle of the night stating, “Do you know your house is haunted?” I did not know it’s history, so I started researching online. I was looking for a “CarFax” for homes if you will, a DiedinHouse.com and I did not find such…
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