The National Federation of Property Professionals is asking its members about how it can improve.
It has emailed them a survey asking NAEA and ARLA members about the websites, benefits and services.
For example, it asks agents to rate their own priorities for what the associations should be doing now and in the future, including whether promoting the associations to consumers is a high, medium or low priority.
The survey is available only until 5pm today.
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Comments
On the whole, I am proud of Arla and my 22 year association with it, but must confess to being less happy post NFOPP era. I even nearly resigned not so long ago!
I have to agree with Ray Evans:
NAEA = Sales
ARLA = Lettings & Property Management
They are totally different disciplines and should be promoted as such – even within the same premises
I would happily have Arla going back to what it was pre NFOPP days.... but maybe, maybe NFOPP will turn things round, in time. That is after all no doubt the purpose of the survey.
As for PropertyLive, the way they went about terminating it was, to my mind, an absolute disgrace. The saving grace is that they respected the strong opposition to this by many members, and are exploring the possibility of selling (I presume "selling") it on.
The last three posts are spot on!
NAEA = Sales
ARLA = Lettings & Property Management
They are totally different disciplines and should be promoted as such – even within the same premises
Sorry but unless you tell them why you were fed up with their ways how can they correct the things that caused you to resign?
I went on one of their CPD qualifying training days, paid good money for it only to be delivered a feeble course that one of my Junior negs could have presented better.
Along comes Bolton King's crusade for licensing, "one has to do more CPD" £80 plus a half a day out of the office to learn how to take Photos of houses? How is that ever worthy of being called professional development?
Mortgage services, what was that all about, how did that fit into the role of a governing body?
Propertylive, employ someone with no demonstrable knowledge of Estate Agency to build a property portal that doesn't work, refuse help from anyone who has the knowledge and experience to make it work and then plod on for years pouring money onto it in the hope it would flourish. Make the decision to switch it off then because a group of Agents in Surrey were using it, kowtow to a very small minority and get the remaining diminishing membership to subsidise keeping Propertylive on a life support machine while Arbon House tender it out.
None of us Ex members joined the Association to subscribe to amateur schemes to fund an over inflated administration with an exaggerated self importance. We joined an organisation that was respected in the industry run by people who were respected.
They are nice people but 'Managing Directors'? Neither seem to be managing and there is no apparent direction. I feel sorry for Mark and Ian, both were handed a stick smeared with something very unpleasant, but both seem reluctant to wipe it clean. The sooner they realise they need to put things exactly back to where they were prior to NFoPP the better. A small administration looking after the interests of the members and promoting Estate Agency as the profession it used to be and ARLA as the bastion of best practice in Lettings and management.
Like Propertylive, NFoPP was an ego motivated scheme and like Propertylive it has failed in embarrassing fashion.
Its Simple Really invite back Past NAEA members and Fellows like myself back, who have 25 years plus in the industry, who left a few years ago due to beiing fed up with the ways of the NAEA
Yay, brilliant, let's ask the remaining few members what they think! (its a bit late but Hey ho)
They really ought to be asking all the ex members what they think, those that are left don't care or don't know enough to resign.
Stop fannying about with Propertylive, take it to the vet, wring its neck, stick it in a sack and throw it in the river but whatever, please put it out of its misery just like you said you would before the commercial boys convinced you to let them squabble over it like vultures on carrion.
Invite all the members who quit during PBK's dictatorship to rejoin.
Disband NFoPP and re-establish NAEA for Estate Agency, ARLA for Lettings and Management.
Stop trying to be RICS, forget all the commercial sponsorship and commission earners to support a behemoth administration. Slash the number of staff in Arbon house and get back to being Trade bodies that supports the respective members and the industry.
Well that got my views of my chest, pity they don’t want to hear that sort of thing.