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...

I read an article last week on property website, Property Industry Eye titled “City shrugs off Foxtons sales woes as share price stays resilient” in a state of mild bafflement, as author Rosalind Renshaw passed comment on the stock markets reaction to Foxtons newly...

Throughout 2018, I was responsible for writing a number of observational (and somewhat critical articles) about some of the major players in UK estate agency, such as Countrywide, Emoov and Humbert’s etc. So, conscious that it is...