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“Whenever I interview someone for a job, I like to ask this question: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”...

The psychology behind why we trust people is complex. Sometimes it’s a feeling, and sometimes it’s our experience of them personally...

When I was growing up, my father would say “To be a good talker, you have to be a good listener”. Always give people time. Always listen...

In estate agency, being a dinosaur involves behaviours such as working in an office, wearing a suit and tie, and being contractually...

We’re not just competing with other flexible providers, we’re also competing with home. It’s somebody’s spare room or kitchen table...

Whether you’re the subject of a newspaper article, appearing in a TV show, posting on social media or writing a blog, you’re really vying...

Moneyball is a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, based on Michael Lewis’s 2003 book of the same name. The story focuses on an...

It came as little surprise to me that even as 2022 was in its infancy, some well known names in the world of London residential agency...

You may have noticed that Mark Zuckerberg recently changed the name of the company he co-founded to Meta. It’s an abbreviated term for...

To imagine Belgravia, with its beautiful garden squares and listed Thomas Cubitt designed terraces is to be transported to an elegant...

For the first time since I can remember, the Chancellor delivered a budget which largely ignored the property market. It’s about time...

For those of you who have opened this week’s blog in the hope of reading about the show created by the genius that is Ricky Gervais...

What are you really good at? It was a question which struck fear into the heart of this very British introvert. I looked at my shoes. ..

If you pay attention, you can learn a lot from children. They seem to be born with an innate curiosity for new things. Like eating mud...

Once upon a time, about twenty years ago, I was a student at University of Leeds. In my third and final year, we lived in an area called...

Estate Agency moves at a slightly slower pace than a glacier. Although, we haven’t quite been immune to the power of the internet...

In a survey of estate agency fees in nearly 30 countries. The UK was ranked 24th...

I am just about old enough to remember the way things used to be done in estate agency. Paper details, sent by Royal Mail...

For a while now there’s been an increasing understanding of the detrimental effects of air pollution on our health, and at the same time...

Lawyer. Accountant. Architect. We understand what these words mean, or more importantly, what someone had to do in order to gain that...