Part Three of Three — On Coaching, Trust and Rhetoric Overvaluing and price reduction are the same s...
What The Rebuttal Lines Are Actually Doing.
Part Two of Three — On Coaching, Trust and Rhetoric The previous piece argued that the fee objection...
The Fee Objection Nobody's Actually Answering.
On Coaching, Trust and Rhetoric - Part 1 of 3. There's a script most #realestate coaches hand out fo...
The Frequency Beneath The Script.
Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part Two You can memorise every objection-handling line in the industry...
They Do The Choosing.
The Wake-Up Call · Part 4 of 5 What actually changes when you're implicitly trusted? Everything you ...
Kill Your False Belief Patterns
The Stories We Keep Telling Ourselves Before they kill you. False beliefs are just stories, built fr...
Permission, Not Scripts.
Another inbox, another coach promising you a $30k month if you just follow the system. Another broke...
Clients Don't Read Your Bio -
They Read You. Part Two of Four: How People Decode Character Before They Can Explain What They're De...
The Lost Art of Being Yourself.
Trying Too Hard to Be Liked Don't laugh. This is genuinely happening. An identity crisis, entirely s...
Why Sellers Reject Even The Expert
Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part One of Four. Frequency matches subconsciously. It doesn't care abo...
When Vendors Get The Wrong Agent.
The Wall Nobody's Rebuilding Something happens when it goes wrong. Not that the property fails to se...
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...
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...
Mortgage Brokers: Keep Hold of the Reins
In the last edition I referenced Aesop's Four Oxen and the Lion to illustrate what indepen...
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...