The key to success in todays uncertain times is through diversity of income.
My colleagues and I are fortunate to meet with a great number of independent estate agents up and down the country – some very successful and others a great deal less so. So, what makes some businesses so much more successful than others? Well, the answer to this...
read moreCountrywide Group: Why is breaking up so hard to do?
With a plunging share price and reportedly £200m of debt, the word "crisis" has been much in evidence lately by business journalists writing about the UK's largest estate agency group Countrywide. Furthermore, you know that you are in trouble as an organisation when...
read moreHumberts and Emoov: a case of Breaking News or Breaking Bad?
Well, there has been no shortage of news over recent weeks concerning some of the major players in UK estate agency. Firstly, news broke at the end of April that country agents Humbert's had entered talks with administrators due to "turbulent market conditions and...
read moreWhy are Foxtons no longer the darlings of the London Property Market?
I spent 20 years of my working life in West London competing against Foxtons. Whether you love them or loathe them, under the stewardship of property entrepreneur Jon Hunt, they were always a progressive and highly dynamic force in London estate agency, that...
read moreProptech, proptech everywhere and not a drop a to use!
I am sure Samuel Taylor Coleridge would mind me adapting his line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner!" I have always been a fan of technology and the ability to use hardware and/or software to enhance and improve a business process. What I am not a fan of, is...
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