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I would be surprised if any taxes were lost in the holiday given the income, corporation, capital gains, Vat and NI collected from businesses directly involved in moving, plus subsequent spends with trades, b and q, new sofa, tele, etc, and reduced spend on unemployment for the saved jobs in the industry.

From: Paul Davies 05 January 2021 22:38 PM

We've had a number of people who have commented to say that they cancelled contract or direct debit and listing are still showing...

From: Paul Davies 04 May 2020 08:42 AM

Morning Andrew, Long term and short term strategies are both needed. Longer term, we need to rely less on portals. A short term, quick win however, is to reduce RM power by moving memberships to other portals and Zoopla and OTM are the next nearest. This removes RM dominance. I loathe OTM as i see them as culpable in increasing RM power with their ill thought out 1 other portal rule and they've shown their true colours by suing Connells for abusing the one other portal rule whilst actively touting the rule relaxation to new clients, but my enemies enemy in this situation may be my (short term) friend.

From: Paul Davies 24 April 2020 11:24 AM

During the discussions we've had with Rob, there's not been a discussion to give OTM the power or monopoly. I appreciate the author has an agenda to push, and there's some elements which I like in what they're offering,but wasn't OTM another mutual type portal? I think I've made my feelings quite clear on OTM, I don't trust them and Andrew is right, they are another PLC looking to profit, but certainly a healthy market place of 3, or more, leading portals should balance fees. What I'd love to see is a world beyond the reliance on portals. They have their place, but there should be a balanced mix of marketing and sales channels and the sooner we start experimenting with alternative options, the sooner the reliance on portals and their fee dominance, the better.

From: Paul Davies 24 April 2020 11:19 AM

Hi HIT Man, I'm not sure any of the admins are pro Rightmove. There are definitely some pro RM agents on there, but I'm not a believer in stifling debate. If you have to block or delete someone to win your argument, then you've lost it. On to the longer term vision, and it's a great point. The group initially formed out of pure frustration and allowing fed up agents to vent, but there are things that I've been advocating that may get missed in the sea of comments, and maybe I need to be more selective in the recycled comments that get put up. But there's a few aims and the first is the key one and these will be explored within the group as they develop: 1) Find another way that doesn't require the dependence on portals. Portals will have their place (until technology adapts) but we're looking at other ways of marketing and trying to have that discussion and explore those options. For example, studying the Aus market, all of the agents in Canberra got together, created their own local area app and ditched the portals. The buyers had to follow. Secondly, educating process; are agents blindly putting properties onto portals or following a process; ring out, own website, social media and then portal uploads. 2) Create a purchasing union for smaller independents. RM power comes from their size. An organisation that can represent several thousand agents would have a balanced power. In the early days of he group, I was utterly amazed that the Guild and NAEA don't do this for their members. Do remember that it is early days and that we are trying to explore options and keep our businesses afloat at the same time, so I realise the need to move as quickly as possible, but that's not always possible.

From: Paul Davies 24 April 2020 11:12 AM

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