There is something about the mortgage market that, on the face of it, simply doesn't seem to make se...
So Where Do The Council Stand?
After a two-week break from our live broadcasts, Cladding Matters is back this Friday at 1pm.And the...
Property Quorum: Estate Agents – Experience or Qualifications?
Buying or selling a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most of us will ever make.Along t...
IPSA Kind Of Magic: Right Data, Wrong Answer
We live in a world where more property information is available at the touch of a button than ever b...
Accessibility Isn’t About Them. It’s About Us.
A few weeks ago, my colleague Chris Wood was travelling to a meeting on an overcrowded train when he...
Property Matters: Whatever Happened to the Housing Officer?
There was a time when, if you lived in a council house, there was a reasonable chance you knew who y...
Just Because AI Can Do It Doesn’t Mean We Should Let It
Property is racing towards AI agents that can act across a transaction. Before we hand the...
More Regulation. More Risk. More Responsibility. Same Broken Transaction.
Something struck me while reading the property and legal press recently. Estate agents are...
The Best Solutions in Property May Be the Ones You’ve Never Heard Of. Why?
There is a comforting idea in business that if you build something genuinely useful, event...
The Industry Keeps Debating What’s Broken. Home Movers Have Already Told Us.
There is no shortage of people trying to explain what is wrong with home moving. Governmen...
Follow the Incentive: Who Really Profits From the Way We Move Home?
There is an old principle in business: if you want to understand why a system behaves as i...
Standards Are Not Control: Why WiggyWam Is Building Home Moving Differently
There is an understandable nervousness developing around the growing number of platforms t...
The Final Countdown: Greenwich Must Answer
Last Friday was supposed to be Deadline Day.On Cladding Matters, we were expecting to discover where...
Home Sellers: Your Preparation For The Sale Of Your Property Should Start Before A Buyer Is Found
Most people think selling a home starts when the photographs are taken, the property appea...
Property Quorum: The Deadline Conveyancers Cannot Ignore
There always seems to be something else for conveyancers to think about.As if getting a property tra...
Mortgage Brokers: Keep Hold of the Reins
In the last edition I referenced Aesop's Four Oxen and the Lion to illustrate what indepen...
IPSA Kind Of Magic: Mistakes, Memories and Magic
When you have been doing a job for a long time, there are some days that simply disappear from memor...
Apparently One in Three Home Sales Fall Through. The Old Way Is Running Out of Time.
One in three sales apparently fall through before completion. ( see whitepaper page 22 for...
The Independents Have the Numbers. What They Lack Is Unity.
I grew up reading Aesop's fables and virtually every fairy tale I could get my hands on. L...
Independent Conveyancers Need Infrastructure. But Who Should Control It?
For years, conveyancers have been told that technology is coming to change their professio...
The Property Giants Are Joining Forces. It’s Time Independents Did Too
Something significant is happening in the UK housing market while much of the industry is ...
The Age Of Low Standards
Most readers will know that I'm embarking on the journey of writing a book called Sold, Su...
Home Moving Can Not Be Fixed By One Industry Or Profession, Nor By Platforms Reliant On Multiple Third Party Integrations
The home-moving process is once again the subject of proposed reform. Upfront information,...
One Maverick Can Challenge the System. A Team Can Change It.
The word Maverick suggests independence. It describes someone willing to question conventi...
You Cannot Manage a Property Chain You Cannot See
In the previous edition, I examined why one property transaction should not be managed acr...
Sold Subject to Contract Is Far Too Late to Start the Transaction
Many people still treat Sold Subject to Contract as the starting point of the transaction....
A Better System Is Not Enough. It Needs Better People.
In the first edition of this newsletter, I wrote about the uncomfortable reality of moving...
One Transaction Should Not Be Managed in Six Different Places
In the previous edition, I argued that the property transaction should begin when the sell...
Property Matters: The Disappearing Local Estate Agent
There was a time when choosing an estate agent usually meant walking down your local high street. Yo...
"Don't Think! Just Do."
There comes a moment in every professional's career when they intuitively know what to do....