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These monthly property market updates are starting to feel a bit like government propaganda...

What if we built an estate agency that was incredibly customer centric and totally obsessed with the highest levels of accountability...

In the third of my series of guest blogs, I was interested to hear from Gregg Kantor, co-founder of Flyp about the importance of first...

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

In my last market update I was optimistic - mostly about the improving weather and the prospect of my kids returning to school...

This week I had the opportunity to speak to Prime Resi, the leading online journal of luxury property, as part of their New Business Real...

I still find it incredible how much the world has changed over the past 12 months. Yet to look at it now, how much of that change seems....

If you have ever worked in a sales environment, you might appreciate that historically skills like empathy, compassion and kindness...

You’ve made a decision to sell your home. Now you have two questions which need answering: How much is my property worth? Who’s going to...

It’s nearly Spring (as I write this it’s freezing cold and pouring with rain). The kids will be back at school soon...

I miss London. I miss the people, the buzz, the places, the architecture, the diversity and everything else which makes it such a great

I was thinking this week about how much has changed in the last 12 months on both a personal and global level. Unless you’re old enough to

In Estate Agency, we are often caught up in comparisons. Towards the end of 2020 I saw countless posts on social media about the amount of d

“To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true. If you are too proud of wh

“People will forget the things you do, and people will forget the things you say. But people will never forget how you made them feel”

You don’t have to look very hard these days to find people willing to talk about the future of Residential Real Estate Agency. The fact tha

Diversity in the property industry is an ongoing topic of conversation that needs to be addressed. This issue has remained a quiet and somew

I am not a leader. I have no employees, and very few followers. Nor am I an entrepreneur, not by my definition anyway. If I had to catego

The onset of the second nationwide ‘lockdown’ in the UK this week has made me think about home, and more specifically, what we have come to

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been re-reading Steven Covey’s 1989 classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. What’s really stru