During my 30 years as an estate agent (prior to becoming a business broker), I would often advise clients as to how best prepare their home, in order to maximise the eventual selling price. Common sense you might well think – and of course you would be right. So,...

  About two weeks ago I found myself browsing through the day’s articles on estate agency website “Property Industry Eye”, and was drawn to one solitary headline, “Romans confirms closures of two branches as it looks to diversify into new markets”. Nothing exceptional...

Like many of you no doubt, I recently watched Matt Giggs heartfelt video lament to origins of Countrywide PLC’s present difficulties. Matt (like myself) is an ex- employee of Countrywide who mused with great insight and sincerity about the considerable problems that...

For the past five years I have observed an open and often hostile debate taking place about the future shape of UK estate agency across the trade press and digital media. The discourse itself has largely centred around a narrative of High Street verses low cost...

It is hard to think of any other estate agency firm in living memory that has elicited greater industry debate and heated disagreement than Purplebricks. Are they really a true game changing disrupter or merely an unproven upstart? Well I suspect we are nearing that...