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Roger Mellie
Roger Mellie
TV Presenter
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About Me

Ideas man and presenter at Fulchester TV

my expertise in the industry

I've had five previous wives (two 'accidentally' murdered) and am an undischarged bankrupt, a hopeless alcoholic, extremely sexist, very right-wing, a bigot and a recovering cocaine addict. Perfect for a job in property.

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Roger Mellie
Yea because that's the thing. Developers colluding, those shadowy money men keeping the pleps down. What a load of nonsense.

From: Roger Mellie 27 February 2024 08:55 AM

Roger Mellie
Theres not enough female bricklayers either.

From: Roger Mellie 28 December 2023 10:15 AM

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I have never seen the US model work here in the UK. I've seen Remax and Century21 come and go, I am impressed that KW seems to be hanging in there.

From: Roger Mellie 12 July 2023 09:14 AM

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Let's try to remember that low interest rates were not the norm and the past 15 years have been an anomaly. Rates of 4-5% were normal. Fewer people own their own homes now and those that do are on long-term fixed rates, so the only route to peg back inflation is taxation. It's coming.

From: Roger Mellie 12 July 2023 09:12 AM

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Reading in the Economist this week inflation is increasingly the result of poor judgements. Banks link their fixed-rate mortgages to market expectations for interest rates as central banks face some agonising decisions. Although the inflation figures in Britain are not truly a shock, what has gone so horribly wrong? Old excuses imported, because of war, snarled-up supply chains or high global food prices no longer wash. Our labour force is still below pre-pandemic levels and no shortage of jobs to go around companies are competing on wages with double-digit rises just to attract new talent. It's apparent that fewer Britons have a mortgage than in previous tightening cycles and in any case many have fixed rates for longer, so the effects so far have been limited. So if interest rates arent working theres one other option: Putting up taxes.

From: Roger Mellie 30 June 2023 09:46 AM

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We haven't seen the likes of this since 2008 when interest rates peaked at 5.75%. Let's hope we're not heading towards the highs of 1989 when rates hit 14.88%.

From: Roger Mellie 22 June 2023 08:05 AM

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Who got commissary now Purple Bricks?

From: Roger Mellie 30 May 2023 08:50 AM

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Estate agency cannot live alone on sales commissions.

From: Roger Mellie 28 February 2023 12:53 PM

Roger Mellie
These people are on the lunatic fringe, can you imagine having the council involved in who lives where and who can buy and who cannot?

From: Roger Mellie 24 February 2023 09:17 AM

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Harsh, very harsh. Not only is AML less appealing to read about than watching paint dry, but it's also a lot to ask of small agencies that struggle to find the time to keep up with mounting legislation anyway. Not to mention the amount of ongoing training and record keeping. It's tough, very tough.

From: Roger Mellie 12 October 2022 09:13 AM

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For my 2 cents, cast your mind back to 2004 when interest rates were rising quarterly by a quarter percent. It peaked at 5.75% and then the sales market went from lots of viewings and no sales, to suddenly everything under offer. Life was cheap and interest rises put on the squeeze, now fuel costs are putting the squeeze on everyone up to the middle class. Do we need another rate rise? No, but then I'm not an economist so what do I know.

From: Roger Mellie 02 August 2022 09:11 AM

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It doesn't matter who you are or what you're about, just don't virtue signal about it.

From: Roger Mellie 28 June 2022 09:02 AM

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I'd always thought that watching paint dry was the most boring thing to do in the world. Then I discovered Anti Money Laundering legislation.

From: Roger Mellie 20 May 2022 09:08 AM

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Spicey fart

From: Roger Mellie 29 March 2022 11:18 AM

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It's nice to trigger the millennials from time to time. Swap out a sausage roll, for avocado toast, or latte for the same hysterical reposte. Anyway I'm not giving up my 20 Lambert & Butler, 2 bottles of Blue Nun and a bag of chips each day for anyone.

From: Roger Mellie 17 March 2022 09:14 AM

Roger Mellie
Boards have nothing to do with the highway code and everything to do with the planning code.

From: Roger Mellie 26 January 2022 09:10 AM

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Newsflash: Nobody cares.

From: Roger Mellie 24 January 2022 08:55 AM

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This is a real human tragedy.

From: Roger Mellie 29 December 2021 09:31 AM

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The vendors are the loser in this fee structure. I've been on the buying end of the Modern Method of Auction and I was frequently told to bid lower to account for the buyer's fee, which is 6K! This is popular up north where fees are low.

From: Roger Mellie 16 December 2021 10:10 AM

Roger Mellie
Yup, someone always wants a high val and someone always wants a low val. The valuation is the easy step, it's the arguing and stubbornness we see in the progression end of things that warrants extra commission.

From: Roger Mellie 06 December 2021 09:21 AM

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It is a free market and the consumer expects more for less. The internet has certainly shown us that we must sharpen up. The best example I can offer is Blockbuster. I am always harping on to the FD about "The Blockbuster Effect". We are not a hybrid agent, but we did make huge changes to our operations because of Covid. Pretty much every agent we go up against have gone back to their old ways, so it's no wonder the death knell is close when agents can't, won't, or don't know how to change.

From: Roger Mellie 25 November 2021 08:56 AM

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Scum

From: Roger Mellie 11 November 2021 10:12 AM

Roger Mellie
Where is your god now, reverend?

From: Roger Mellie 02 November 2021 08:04 AM

Roger Mellie
We used valpal for a while and it was as much use as a condom in the Vatican.

From: Roger Mellie 27 October 2021 10:25 AM

Roger Mellie
So what's this guy saying? It sounds like he's just polishing his balls rather than telling us all what we already know. Vacancies are up, quality of applicants is down as are applications. Thanks Covid. Thanks Brexit.

From: Roger Mellie 27 October 2021 10:23 AM

Roger Mellie
Its a novel idea.

From: Roger Mellie 19 October 2021 09:58 AM

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Well, good luck to the guy! The problem always arises when more staff are needed to help with scaling up, then it becomes more of a desk job than a sales job. Finding staff that meets Marcel's work rate and attention to detail is near impossible which is why so many estate agents are full of mediocrity. This is akin to being a driving instructor, there are only so many hours in the day and you can't work all 24 of them.

From: Roger Mellie 08 October 2021 10:04 AM

Roger Mellie
How is this any different from Remax, Keller Williams, Century 21, or Ewe Move? None of which have a great track record of successful franchisees in the UK so far as I'm aware. And if they're going to mimic PB, then let's all take a look and how terribly Yopa is doing.

From: Roger Mellie 28 September 2021 09:16 AM

Roger Mellie
No doubt according to Angela Nobrayner we're all misogynistic racist homophobic absolutely vile scum. I bet she's fun to be around.

From: Roger Mellie 27 September 2021 16:02 PM

Roger Mellie
Well good luck to the franchisee.

From: Roger Mellie 23 September 2021 11:29 AM

Roger Mellie
Do any of us really care about this? The only controversy that we care about is how they ballsed up the EWS1 with many people not able to remortgage or sell their homes and suffer in some cases eye-watering bills for waking watch and repairs.

From: Roger Mellie 09 September 2021 10:55 AM

Roger Mellie
The business needs what the business needs. The needs of the business come before all else. I suspect from reading other opinion pieces on this, Mr. Sellar may not have been very tactful in his approach. In matters such as these, a lawyer's opinion in how to tackle such a situation is vital and cannot be ignored as we see here.

From: Roger Mellie 07 September 2021 11:30 AM

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We saw the same situation after the 2009 banking crisis. The talent pool was deep with a cadre of qualified, educated, and intelligent workers. Eventually, as the economy returned to normal those sturdy custodians of estate agency, who had lifted us all up to be better than we'd ever hoped to be, returned back to the industries they came from, and we, as estate agents were back to the tombola hoping to find anyone with at least 1 GSCE.

From: Roger Mellie 31 August 2021 09:20 AM

Roger Mellie
Simon is behind the times, the way to go now is Zoom inspections. Everyone loves them, from the landlords who can see the property and meet the property manager and tenant in real-time. Not to mention the time savings for the property managers.

From: Roger Mellie 13 August 2021 09:44 AM

Roger Mellie
People like "free".

From: Roger Mellie 29 July 2021 11:50 AM

Roger Mellie
Ctrl C Ctrl V

From: Roger Mellie 29 July 2021 11:49 AM

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What I am hearing is that agents that work with this model are exacerbated by the lack of action and attention of the self-employed. Good luck though!

From: Roger Mellie 21 July 2021 10:08 AM

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Spicey Faart

From: Roger Mellie 19 July 2021 10:45 AM

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This seems like a sensible move to avoid, if anything, getting pinged by the app. Although, not quite the inconvenience it once was if as a business it's been set up for such situations.

From: Roger Mellie 19 July 2021 09:16 AM

Roger Mellie
In my experience, customers mostly leave either a 1-star review or a 5-star review, especially on Google 1 star reviews are left with no comments by people we have never dealt with, and try as we might to get them removed they don't break Googles community guidelines apparently. So, I would suggest that paying for reviews is just a necessary step to protect a good reputation from Google who just aint listening.

From: Roger Mellie 28 June 2021 08:55 AM

Roger Mellie
Me neither, and my firm is on it.

From: Roger Mellie 03 June 2021 08:57 AM

Roger Mellie
A game-changer? We will see I guess.

From: Roger Mellie 31 March 2021 08:58 AM

Roger Mellie
Good luck getting the police to do anything. I'm 2 years down the line on a member of staff that stole a lot of money from us and we are currently to sum total of nowhere with it.

From: Roger Mellie 19 February 2021 09:21 AM

Roger Mellie
The problem with this kind of job is that you need to give it more time than you'd otherwise like to. When we are all trying to keep the wheels on the bus, now is not a good time to be president. Viva El Presidente!!

From: Roger Mellie 16 February 2021 07:51 AM

Roger Mellie
AML is painfully dull to a struggle to fully understand and then make training for. I think I cried just looking at what we as agents needed to actually do to be compliant.

From: Roger Mellie 12 January 2021 08:49 AM

Roger Mellie
Hancock has repeated today there is no such thing as a tier 5, so lets not go to wild on this story eh? It's hard enough trying to manage the situation as it is.

From: Roger Mellie 04 January 2021 09:44 AM

Roger Mellie
Damn, that's harsh. 28 years old. Sobering.

From: Roger Mellie 30 November 2020 13:58 PM

Roger Mellie
In my experience, the modern method of auction does nothing to support a vendor achieving the best price available. The 6K fee a buyer must pay puts many off and the vendor is likely to take less as a result of buyers wanting that 6K off the top. Vendor loses. The only winners here are the agents and iamsold.

From: Roger Mellie 26 November 2020 09:37 AM

Roger Mellie
What's the point in paying for something that has no track record for delivering results? Moomin hope to succeed where so many others have failed and you know, good luck to them for going great guns into this however I think we already have our Coke and Pepsi of the property portals.

From: Roger Mellie 25 November 2020 09:50 AM

Roger Mellie
Victimisation is in high demand, even where there isn't any some must be created. The loony left has literally nothing better to do it would seem.

From: Roger Mellie 18 November 2020 08:15 AM

Roger Mellie
So, this will affect who? Those who are financially illiterate, that's who. A second home should never be sold because we are not taxed on debt. Just draw down the cash as needed and retain the property which will inevitably rise in value and/or produce a monthly income.

From: Roger Mellie 12 November 2020 09:13 AM

Roger Mellie
What kind of name is Boomin? It sounds like Moomin.

From: Roger Mellie 05 November 2020 10:09 AM

Roger Mellie
Remember now that surveyors are personally accountable and liable for their valuations so if they overvalue, they could be on the hook if a property goes repo. Then there are the mortgage lenders that specifically instruct surveyors to down value to ensure there is value on the Title again if a property goes repo. Buyers will just need to stump up more cash if they want to buy I guess.

From: Roger Mellie 19 October 2020 09:28 AM

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They'll have to throw some serious cash at this to make it work. If it does, then great for agents and probably bad news for OTM.

From: Roger Mellie 16 October 2020 10:24 AM

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Obviously the dimwitted head of Property Mark has no clue what it's like in the branch network. What about offices that are on the high street but closed to the public? What about that Mark?

From: Roger Mellie 22 September 2020 16:20 PM

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We, like David have had our doors closed since March. Viewings by appointment only and no one in the office unless you work there. This has worked out just fine for us so far.

From: Roger Mellie 22 September 2020 16:19 PM

Roger Mellie
Chris Hamer, himself an old crony. Maybe legislation ain't sexy, but neither is the board.

From: Roger Mellie 03 September 2020 11:22 AM

Roger Mellie
I've seen this at work up North, the vendor is always the loser. They think it's a good deal because the buyer pays the fees, then the buyer wants the £6K off to counter the cost. Agents have actively coach buyers into how to make a bid to secure a sale at the behest of the vendor.

From: Roger Mellie 15 July 2020 19:11 PM

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I'll bring the 'yang' to this conversation. These times are perfect for buying because of the uncertainty if you're an investor. Most people are running for the exits, investors are backing up the trucks. Lots of money to be made in times of trouble.

From: Roger Mellie 22 June 2020 08:37 AM

Roger Mellie
No surprises really. Agents putting wealth before health.

From: Roger Mellie 05 June 2020 10:31 AM

Roger Mellie
People buying property without seeing it first? It's going to fall out of bed. All agents are getting plenty of lead and calls, but virtual viewings are no doubt useful but again, a property still needs to be inspected.

From: Roger Mellie 24 April 2020 09:15 AM

Roger Mellie
I saw this coming when they split with Chestertons. Dumb move.

From: Roger Mellie 10 December 2019 09:04 AM

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