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Can't think of any associations that are worthy of an award, particularly when it comes to PropTech. Unless UKPA is thinking of awarding itself? Fixflo should get something. And fastest growing business, well, I dare say Purplebricks...
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T Dap
07 March 2018 11:12 AM
Interesting read, Kristjan. In the last year or so particularly, use of the phrase PropTech has bordered on getting out of control. Many firms have been jumping on the bandwagon using the phrase to try and sell agents goods that they don't really need. The biggest problem for me, and one that many others have voiced before, is that many 'PropTech' products don't offer solutions to genuine issues. They are purporting to solve issues which don't really exist in the name of making quick cash from agents who feel they need to be diversifying and embracing digital. There are some brilliant products out there, but agents must be wary of some of the opportunists. I hope this series goes some way to helping to educate agents on what to look for and what they don't need. Kristjan, I note you operate solely in lettings, will this series be covering only PropTech for lettings or the whole industry? I look forward to the next piece.
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T Dap
19 February 2018 09:12 AM
Not that surprising. D & G seem to have changed a lot in the last few years.
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T Dap
14 February 2018 14:31 PM
It's interesting to see the general apathy towards OTM now - no one seems bothered about it one way or the other. Previous floats from companies in the industry have attracted far more attention. Is everyone just tired of this now?
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T Dap
12 February 2018 08:37 AM
Does the same apply to you too, then, Paul? ;)
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T Dap
26 January 2018 14:46 PM
Is it clever or just a PR/marketing cock-up? Sounds like they don't know what they want.
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T Dap
09 January 2018 14:17 PM
According to Countrywide, it's been a roaring success. But that could mean anything.
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T Dap
15 December 2017 08:45 AM
Couldn't agree more. Since when should a portal dictate whether an agency owner should be able to sell their business? Madness and a sad indictment of where the industry is going.
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T Dap
05 December 2017 10:06 AM
OTM says: "We are not aware of it causing any difficulties over the last four years for member agents selling their businesses to larger groups." Lol - would we not describe the Gascoigne Halman debacle as 'difficulty' then?
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T Dap
05 December 2017 10:01 AM
Wow - didn't see that one coming. Silent majority hits home again.
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T Dap
07 September 2017 11:34 AM
eurgh: "we are exclusively offering GPEA members the opportunity to paint the country orange and the future looks bright with so much of the UK covered"
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T Dap
26 July 2017 08:35 AM
Good for them and their conveniently purple looking spoof agent!
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T Dap
15 June 2017 08:47 AM
Seems like this will become the norm. Fair play to a small firm putting this together themselves.
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T Dap
14 June 2017 09:13 AM
Needed as a cabinet position. Obviously the industry is going to 'welcome' him. No one is going to have a pop before he has even got started!
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T Dap
14 June 2017 09:12 AM
It really would make sense for Hollinrake to be the next HM...
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T Dap
12 June 2017 08:17 AM
Who remembers when people used to be interested in this debate??
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T Dap
22 May 2017 12:22 PM
How do they do it? That's over £30 million raised in under a year and I don't think I've ever seen a YOPA board...
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T Dap
17 May 2017 11:09 AM
Unfortunately for Trinity Mirror, Rightmove and Zoopla may suppress agents' brands, but their results are much better and more measurable.
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T Dap
17 May 2017 11:06 AM
Ewemove certainly looks like a decentish acquisition for PFG. Although how it will fare/be treated once Glenn and David leave will be anyone's guess.
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T Dap
10 May 2017 11:40 AM
I find it weird that they don't include their losses in their advertising :P
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T Dap
10 May 2017 11:38 AM
From an industry perspective, good to see agents opening rather than hoping they fail...
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T Dap
09 May 2017 15:21 PM
"I seem to have inspired the industry in approaching agency in a slightly different angle.“ Wow, going on TV really does go to people's heads!
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T Dap
04 May 2017 09:43 AM
Quoting profit of £0.3 million, instead of £300k - very subtle but just sums it all up to me. The instruction growth is impressive - the commisery campaign has obviously worked a treat. Shame organisations like the NAEA haven't been there to defend high st agents over this. As everyone keeps saying, though, until we see some sales percentage figures, there's no way of knowing how well they're doing.
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T Dap
04 May 2017 09:23 AM
I feel like people love saying 'Big Data' cos it makes them feel 'techy' and like they understand the internet...
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T Dap
12 April 2017 09:51 AM
I'm not sure what you expect them to say, Ray? These firms are allowed to be members of NAEA/ARLA. I'm not saying I don't agree with you - I do. It's just they're hardly going to come out and criticise their own members who pay to keep them afloat are they?
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T Dap
07 April 2017 10:46 AM
I suspect this is just the start of a long PR press campaign from PB. They've got the funds and the standing to do so now - and unfortunately some people will lap it up. The NAEA issue is an interesting one. People have been criticising their position on this (and quite rightly so, in my opinion) for a while now, but they have stayed very quiet. Will they respond to their members who are unhappy that they support firms like Purplebricks?
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T Dap
06 April 2017 09:42 AM
It is a good idea and it will be interesting to see how many agents sign up. But why say now that it plans to float in the future? Seems a bit premature...
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T Dap
04 April 2017 10:40 AM
The public have voted with their feet when comes to most of easy's brands except easyjet. I wonder why easyPizza never really 'took off'?
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T Dap
03 April 2017 11:38 AM
So it's because of the state of the housing market, rather than not wanting to fleece customers any more. Thanks, Rightmove, I'm sure everyone will appreciate that sentiment.
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T Dap
31 March 2017 09:47 AM
What a mess. They've raised so much money and then lost so much. Doesn't look good. easyProperty has been around for a while now, but I don't think I've ever seen a board. All that fanfare, cash and hyperbole a couple of years ago really does seem silly now.
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T Dap
31 March 2017 09:17 AM
Seems weird that eMoov would be used as the barometer of success...surely Purplebricks are the agent with the most relative success?
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T Dap
29 March 2017 14:44 PM
Maybe, but you can see why people have complained. When M&P came up with this I'm sure they were aware it was likely to cause a bit of a rumpus with some people...
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T Dap
28 March 2017 11:35 AM
Agreed - they put this out every few months and it's always the same rubbish!
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T Dap
22 March 2017 09:51 AM
Is it me or does CIELA's pursuit of PB seem like selection of an easy target and therefore an excuse to score points and get more potential members onside?
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T Dap
21 March 2017 09:32 AM
Over 2,000 sellers have used eMoov? That seems like the most interesting finding of this survey to me ;)
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T Dap
20 March 2017 10:18 AM
No surprise that LSL is thinking of launching hybrid. The only surprise is perhaps that it's taken them so long after their main competitors to act.
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T Dap
08 March 2017 11:29 AM
I seem to remember with the Houser debacle that it is not illegal, but they have to give agents the option to say they don't want them scraping their properties. I may be wrong on this though...
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T Dap
01 March 2017 10:32 AM
A ronseal name if it does what it says. Why doesn't it focus on taming Scotland first and become the top site there? Conquering England is hardly going to be a walk in the park, if at all plausible.
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T Dap
01 March 2017 09:31 AM
And it goes on...is their aim to hoover up every software firm by the end of the year?
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T Dap
01 March 2017 09:30 AM
Nothing to see here, then.
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T Dap
27 February 2017 10:58 AM
Funny how I've just seen a version of this advert on YouTube...
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T Dap
23 February 2017 11:20 AM
Perhaps they should focus on making profit in the UK before launching in another company??
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T Dap
23 February 2017 09:38 AM
Some interesting thoughts - my only observation is that as Property Week is predominantly a commercial property publication it is perhaps expected that the majority of the nominations come from this sector. Also, if they are going to nominate an agent for 'disruption', surely it would have to be Purplebricks and not YOPA??
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T Dap
22 February 2017 09:27 AM
Good to see some action - although a case of too little too late if the ad was aired last summer? There's a few more ads I can think of which warrant some attention!
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T Dap
22 February 2017 09:25 AM
Quite a few letting agents already offer Airbnb management and it'll only continue to grow. However, Airbnb will certainly become more regulated in the next few years, which could have an impact. Whether regulation will stop it from growing is another question entirely. According to a BBC report earlier in the week, lots of landlords are already flouting the 90 day a year rule introduced by Airbnb.
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T Dap
15 February 2017 10:56 AM
Interesting that PB are named the best online agent and were able to comment on the story as it was released. I wonder how many other agents named in this knew about the study?
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T Dap
15 February 2017 10:55 AM
I wonder if Queen are Platt's favourite band??
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T Dap
13 February 2017 11:36 AM
Propertymark is a better name than NFoPP - but NAEA Propertymark or ARLA Propertymark has a ring to it. Maybe they could have dropped NAEA and ARLA from the consumer facing stuff and just have everyone under the propertymark banner?
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T Dap
10 February 2017 09:26 AM
Interesting piece. One thing I find astonishing is how a firm like Trussle can manage £1 billion worth of mortgages when it is so relatively little-known. I have never seen any advertising and have only come across it in these forums on a couple of occasions. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places?
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T Dap
08 February 2017 10:12 AM
Complete waste of time and money if you ask me. Will anything ever change?
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T Dap
08 February 2017 09:58 AM
That's because NIMBYs' children can't get on the housing ladder. It's become a mess realisation among the general public but that doesn't mean that the Government will be able to fix it...
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T Dap
07 February 2017 10:20 AM
Moving away from Starter Homes now? What is the point of that? Government's insistence to 'move away' from previous administrations means we make no progress whatsoever. What about all the time and money that has been spent on developing the starter homes scheme over the past two years? Ridiculous thinking and makes it abundantly clear why there is a housing shortage/crisis in this country.
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T Dap
07 February 2017 10:18 AM
As touched on below, while RM is maintaining a profit margin of 70% or whatever - there is no need for them to go direct to the consumer. Acting as the middle man has served them brilliantly for the last 20 years, and they've only been getting stronger in recent times.
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T Dap
07 February 2017 10:15 AM
Isn't more the point of this story that a high street agency has taken the bull by the horns and turned online agents' advertising spiel on its head? Something which people have been suggesting for months....
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T Dap
31 January 2017 16:21 PM
It's almost as if everyone has become immune to PB's spouting. It really is hard to get one's head around that share price, though.
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T Dap
31 January 2017 15:20 PM
Where is OTM's anniversary announcement? Seems strange not to take advantage of the milestone and let Zoopla hog the limelight.
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T Dap
26 January 2017 09:06 AM
What a sad state of affairs this has become. They know they can make any claim they like, because it seems the worst that is going to happen is that they simply have to change it.
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T Dap
25 January 2017 08:40 AM
There's been an awful lot of correspondence from this 'group' in a very short space of time. Lots of sweeping statements, but their ultimate aim does seem like it'll be difficult to achieve. I wonder if it'll be 'one member, one vote' or if it's just the founding members that have the final say on big issues?
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T Dap
24 January 2017 11:22 AM
All very well, Gavin, but this is a trade forum so not really going to have any benefit as most of the people reading this site already know that. That sort of thing needs to go in the mainstream press - just like what PB are doing. This is when organisations like the NAEA really need to fight back and big up full service agents /dispel the myths being peddled.
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T Dap
17 January 2017 09:11 AM
Weird stance from Amanda Lamb - has she been this anti-agent before?
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T Dap
17 January 2017 09:05 AM
Could be a good thing if only to make the existing bodies up their game and output. I'm sure most small agencies will need to know more about the background and nuts and bolts of how it's going to work before getting behind it. There is an element of 'fingers burnt' with the AM episode, so members will need to know it's being set up for the right reasons and that they will actually benefit from the things they are promised in the initial stages.
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T Dap
11 January 2017 11:53 AM
Where would they be without lettings? Although the proposed fee ban must really have them quaking...
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T Dap
11 January 2017 11:48 AM
Sounds like a more promising ad campaign - Sky Sports, Sky News and Sky Atlantic aren't bad channels to advertise on. Better than advertising on Dave!
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T Dap
06 January 2017 11:08 AM
It must be nearly Christmas!
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T Dap
07 December 2016 16:27 PM
I thought people would be queuing up to buy James Nesbitt's house!
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T Dap
06 December 2016 11:11 AM
Welcome to December, Mr Scrooge! :-)
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T Dap
02 December 2016 10:03 AM
Can't see many agents seeing this commercial channel as an added benefit of being an OTM member...
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T Dap
02 December 2016 08:37 AM
Does the international/overseas channel actually exist??
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T Dap
02 December 2016 08:36 AM
'Over 23m leads were generated, including 350,000 property appraisal leads.' - hmmm
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T Dap
30 November 2016 13:37 PM
'a tennis coach who once taught Tim Henman.' - one of the worst scraping the barrell claims to fame I have ever heard...!
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T Dap
25 November 2016 09:54 AM
"She concludes the interview by revealing that she has a quote from Michelangelo on her desk at home, saying "The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it." How very David Brent!
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T Dap
23 November 2016 10:14 AM
What a load of old rubbish. It's almost as if he is saying it just to get a reaction.
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T Dap
22 November 2016 09:12 AM
Some surprising results. One thing for sure, though, the tories' record is pretty shambolic
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T Dap
21 November 2016 11:27 AM
Well spotted! Although I can see two 'round tables' though....
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T Dap
21 November 2016 11:26 AM
Agreeing or disagreeing with a campaign or lobbying call before an Autumn Statement or Budget - lovely press opportunity for agents....!
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T Dap
16 November 2016 11:29 AM
This is so tiresome now. Surely if the letters were 'in breach of the authority’s advertising codes' then rather than an informal resolution, the letters should be banned and the complaint upheld by the ASA. Examples need to be made of repeat offenders otherwise there is no disincentive.
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T Dap
16 November 2016 11:28 AM
Agents who are doing this are using the system to make it look like they have a shorter average marketing time - so yes, I would suggest that is fraud...
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T Dap
15 November 2016 09:33 AM
Yes but to be on tele you also need a personality and certain performance-related skills, wouldn't you agree?
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T Dap
04 November 2016 14:46 PM
He wants them to rent - because he is a retirement rentals company. Hence the encouragement for people to downsize - makes him more money!!
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T Dap
01 November 2016 14:01 PM
I get this point: 'What's more, there are almost 1,000 offices listing fewer than 10 properties, which would suggest that smaller agents make up a significant proportion of recent joiners.' But again, I would suggest RM and Zoopla also include agents of this size in their figures.
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T Dap
28 October 2016 17:13 PM
'60 appear to be in the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland' - what is the relevance of this point? Do Zoopla and RM not include agents in these locations in their totals??
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T Dap
28 October 2016 17:13 PM
Okay - 2nd January then!
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T Dap
21 October 2016 11:54 AM
Why doesn't she just start on 1st January? ;)
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T Dap
21 October 2016 09:41 AM
Fine & Country will fit in perfectly alongside prestigious neighbours including Armani, Harvey Nichols and Hugo Boss ..... Hmmm....
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T Dap
21 October 2016 09:40 AM
50% market share for online agents is going to take a while....I'm sure we'll all have retired by then so we won't have to worry about it.
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T Dap
17 October 2016 14:49 PM
How can it be gross abuse of its position? RM is not a government body it is a commercial enterprise. It can accept who it wants. I'm sure there's plenty more advertisers out there that could be 'delisted'.
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T Dap
17 October 2016 08:52 AM
Nice of them to explain but it doesn't really solve the issue. If agents know that they can make unsubstantiated or false claims for as long as it takes for the ASA to get in touch and ask them to change it then they will keep doing so. The whole problem is that informally resolved cases do not act as a deterrent.
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T Dap
13 October 2016 10:15 AM
Good luck to them - sounds like three good scalps for the independents over the corps.
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T Dap
12 October 2016 09:50 AM
Is there any point in them publicising informally resolved cases anymore? I can't see the benefit. They may as well just publicise the 'upheld' cases which occur every couple of months and still don't really mean anything!
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T Dap
12 October 2016 09:47 AM
“Sellers do not need to rely on high street agents for valuation advice" - seems a pretty naive statement to me...
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T Dap
11 October 2016 10:35 AM
I hear Purplebricks are launching in Costa Rica in the new year
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T Dap
07 October 2016 14:49 PM
Ooops - didn't last very long did she!!
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T Dap
07 October 2016 11:17 AM
Typical anti-agent fodder - very boring and unimaginative. Unfortunately we've seen it before and we'll certainly see it again.
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T Dap
07 October 2016 09:38 AM
Something tells me we'll start to see JRF's logo in the top left-hand corner a lot more often from now on...
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T Dap
06 October 2016 11:02 AM
'The highest award issued last year was £16,954 for a lettings dispute' - blimey I wonder what happened there...
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T Dap
04 October 2016 09:11 AM
79% rise between Sept 2015 and 2016 is pretty huge....shows traffic this time last year was very lowly though.
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T Dap
03 October 2016 11:06 AM
It's not really over regulation if it's regulation designed to explicitly stop firms breaking the law and misleading consumers is it?
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T Dap
29 September 2016 17:07 PM
Is saying how much money you've got really a good idea though? It means business owners who are selling can just negotiate a higher price. It's like when a football club goes public with how big their transfer budget is - just pushes prices up!
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T Dap
26 September 2016 11:39 AM
Depends how desperate for listings they are!
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T Dap
23 September 2016 09:50 AM
Typical lobbying ahead of political event in order to get your company in the press. I doubt they really think this should happen.
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T Dap
22 September 2016 11:08 AM
Tut tut. Well at least councils are handing out fines, rather than the ASA with all this informally resolved rubbish.
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T Dap
22 September 2016 11:07 AM
Wow that is pretty similar. Quite clear what they're trying to do then.
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T Dap
21 September 2016 09:05 AM
To be fair, it doesn't say this is the first online auction offering - just that it's launched.
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T Dap
21 September 2016 08:43 AM
Averages, averages, averages. Maybe someone like the NAEA should survey their membership to give a more recent average fee so that people can stop quoting a Which? survey that is over 5 years old.
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T Dap
20 September 2016 08:23 AM
Indirectly paying for editorial coverage in the Evening Standard. Good marketing for a London estate agency, I'd say.
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T Dap
19 September 2016 09:59 AM
Don't understand how this will make any money if it's free? And the same old question arises, how are they going to get the consumer awareness for it to be worthwhile for anyone.
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T Dap
15 September 2016 08:47 AM
I think someone is a bit upset that all the agencies around him are getting snapped up by the big boys...
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T Dap
08 September 2016 10:30 AM
When will people realise that consumers don't care about online vs traditional? This is just an industry spat that has no relevance to them. All they care about is the service they're going to receive and how much it's going to cost. Writing about the digital transformation of estate agency on your website is hardly going to impress/attract vendors.
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T Dap
07 September 2016 09:12 AM
Are you referring to Agents' Mutual by any chance?
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T Dap
07 September 2016 08:20 AM
It's funny how defenders of the traditional model are now seemingly accepting that people advertised as 'local property experts' are indeed 'local property experts'. Hmmm...
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T Dap
06 September 2016 11:49 AM
Indeed, Michael. So maybe this acquisition is not so much of a surprise as M&C have been offering a service less than what EM offer for a while: https://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2015/9/agency-chain-admits-very-limited-take-up-of-online-sales-option
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T Dap
06 September 2016 11:00 AM
A Scottish sky there - if ever I saw one!
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T Dap
02 September 2016 09:51 AM
Well done Andrew's Estates - sounds like it's thoroughly deserved,
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T Dap
01 September 2016 10:18 AM
Remember these are just Nationwide's mortgage figures.....
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T Dap
01 September 2016 10:17 AM
This just seems like a tout for business really...
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T Dap
26 August 2016 10:01 AM
Isn't this the sort of issue that the new housing minister should be commenting on? Not heard much from him yet...
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T Dap
24 August 2016 15:26 PM
you're right, Michael. Although one has to remember this is a trade site and not aimed at consumers...
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T Dap
23 August 2016 10:21 AM
Next month's figures will be the key. Await the news frenzy on 'house prices drop because of Brexit'...
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T Dap
17 August 2016 10:26 AM
This is good to see. Are we finally getting the beginnings of a crackdown on the 'rogues' and 'misleaders' of the industry?
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T Dap
17 August 2016 10:25 AM
Whatever you think of this model, 94 branches is quite impressive. Unless they are the above ^^ of course.
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T Dap
16 August 2016 09:27 AM
Well done to JSnS for putting something into the public domain that agents have been saying for weeks. Hopefully some consumer press picks up this report.
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T Dap
11 August 2016 10:16 AM
The 55 min claim certainly does! However this one seems more realistic: 'only one in five people using property apps and websites are actually in the market to buy a home.'
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T Dap
09 August 2016 11:53 AM
RomConLead - has a ring to it...
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T Dap
05 August 2016 14:07 PM
What's your job? 'I'm a litter buster'
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T Dap
05 August 2016 10:57 AM
Yep.....must be August!
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T Dap
03 August 2016 09:34 AM
Well said. So can really talk about it as 'PropTech' then?
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T Dap
29 July 2016 13:04 PM
Impressive but depressing. Those profits are ridiculous!
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T Dap
27 July 2016 11:13 AM
Yes - such a small sample, it's not even worth reporting on. However, just for the record, RM has 19,981 customers - 17,336 of which are agents
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T Dap
27 July 2016 09:09 AM
Hiring an agency to hire an agency - wow they must have a lot of money!
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T Dap
22 July 2016 08:16 AM
Love how they are calling themselves a 'premises-free business model' rather than an online agent. Similar to eMoov now calling themselves a hybrid because it's more fashionable.
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T Dap
21 July 2016 10:30 AM
What happens next then?
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T Dap
13 July 2016 10:08 AM
Also - £30 a month for subscription to a site no one is looking at could actually be deemed as quite expensive...
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T Dap
12 July 2016 10:00 AM
**Marketing jargon alert: "a cost effective property search tool that offers unbiased, comprehensive and real time coverage of the market as a whole"
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T Dap
12 July 2016 09:59 AM
What an unbelievably pompous job title!
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T Dap
29 June 2016 13:52 PM
who
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T Dap
22 June 2016 10:24 AM
Wow...anytime anyone at the ASA press R in their address book when writing an email, I wonder how comes up first?
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T Dap
22 June 2016 10:24 AM
Oh another 'Twitter debate' of bland questions and answers to get our teeth stuck into, lovely!
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T Dap
22 June 2016 10:12 AM
Well said. Seems like the just jumped on the PR opportunity of the PB announcement. That is the definition of good PR though I guess.
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T Dap
17 June 2016 12:53 PM
The thing is, when will we see the 'real' figures? These were supposed to be the real figures. But they've been spun in a way that makes it not seem like a disaster waiting to happen.
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T Dap
16 June 2016 17:34 PM
It seems pretty similar, the only difference being it's now sent out as one rather than two and there's a few extra datasets and reports. Hardly anything to write home about. And - if it was more beneficial to the government than the industry as suggested above - that would not surprise me in the slightest!!
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T Dap
15 June 2016 16:14 PM
More 'informally resolved' ads, it's all very relaxed and friendly, isn't it?
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T Dap
15 June 2016 16:12 PM
' a new solution to property downtime' - nice jargon there
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T Dap
15 June 2016 16:11 PM
No smoke without fire, eh Peter?
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T Dap
14 June 2016 11:08 AM
I'm looking forward to June 24th when this is all over. Although I guess the 'referendum fallout' will be just as excruciating...
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T Dap
09 June 2016 11:39 AM
You may be right, Tim, but i do like the logo!
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T Dap
09 June 2016 11:38 AM
Wow another one bites the dust - although sounds like he actively moved on rather than got the heave-ho...
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T Dap
08 June 2016 15:54 PM
Another knuckle rapping - how many more before some actual advertising sanctions?
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T Dap
08 June 2016 09:46 AM
Exactly what I was thinking Rob - probably not a true reflection, more a stage managed one
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T Dap
02 June 2016 10:10 AM
Seems like Jefferies is saying everything people have been saying on these forums for months now...at least they're not puffing them up, I guess.
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T Dap
01 June 2016 10:08 AM
Agreed Ray! Although I think the point is they won't be distorted if you wear a headset, but who's got one of those anyway?
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T Dap
31 May 2016 12:02 PM
Seems bizarre that the founders are being kept on as consultants?
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T Dap
31 May 2016 10:28 AM
This is all very well but if you are a serious buyer or seller, though, surely tidying your home for a viewing or attending a viewing is not going to be a problem.
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T Dap
31 May 2016 10:27 AM
Perhaps the buyers surveyed thought that agents should use 'technology' like Dezrez :P
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T Dap
25 May 2016 11:23 AM
It's good that these complaints continue to be made - but they don't really seem to be stopping the outlandish claims made on websites and in advertising do they?
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T Dap
25 May 2016 11:22 AM
Very true Adrian - although this is a private sales site and so the properties don't even get as far as Rightmove!
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T Dap
23 May 2016 09:35 AM
Does Handy Andy do their landlord repairs?
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18 May 2016 09:20 AM
Mmmm Chard is one of my favourite vegetables :-)
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T Dap
10 May 2016 10:19 AM
Sounds like the panama papers of the estate agency world
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29 April 2016 09:48 AM
They should rename this farce the from the 'portal wars' to the 'open letter wars' - why does everyone feel the need to write an 'open letter' these days?
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26 April 2016 10:01 AM
Why does the NAEA endorse OTM - just doesn't make any sense to me.
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T Dap
21 April 2016 11:55 AM
The problem is whether this sort of analysis is getting in front of the right people? Everyone in this industry knows Shelter talk a load of cobblers, but are those that don't sill having the wool pulled over their eyes?
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20 April 2016 08:57 AM
Good point, James. Maybe another portal is paying their fees?
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T Dap
19 April 2016 17:01 PM
This may sound a silly question but what will agents that list with OTM and RM and currently use PSG do now? Swallow it or have to change software provider?
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19 April 2016 09:39 AM
Precisely. Only the Guardian, apparently!
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T Dap
14 April 2016 11:25 AM
Confused by this. OTM was the whole point of AM, no? So you're saying that there are some agents that happily signed up to AM - with no interest at all in using the portal?
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11 April 2016 13:54 PM
Vested interest vs Vested interest always makes for a good read. There will always be some agents who blaze the trail - offering coffee and informal chit chat. And others who stick to the more formal way of doing things which they've known for years.
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05 April 2016 10:10 AM
If they're a FSBO site using RM and Z then that is not allowed, is it?
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T Dap
05 April 2016 10:07 AM
How right you are, Rob... although they clearly don't see it like that.
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T Dap
05 April 2016 10:06 AM
What a mess this all is - good luck to everyone trying to get deals over the line before tonight.
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T Dap
31 March 2016 09:51 AM
Tut tut PB - hopefully this is the start of more wrist-slaps which get the advertising of these firms into shape, I won't hold my breath though.
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30 March 2016 14:13 PM
So in 4 years the need for online agents will be even more miniscule than it is now? Great! Sounds like an interesting report, I'm off to research 'Big Data'...
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24 March 2016 09:38 AM
Let me guess...SearchFlow offers online anti ML checks for conveyancers shock?
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24 March 2016 09:36 AM
I get your point about fee-cutting, Steven. But haven't we seen in the past that private sales don't really work for the mass market? I mean if it was going to take off, it would have done by now, wouldn't it?
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23 March 2016 11:15 AM
Just waiting for messers Mealham and HarryN to turn up...
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T Dap
11 March 2016 09:17 AM
How very cryptic. Is it you that's been changing the wiki page 'Mr Arlington'?!
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T Dap
09 March 2016 10:17 AM
Honestly.....what sad act has got time to edit OTM's Wikipedia page? Ridiculous pettiness.
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09 March 2016 09:22 AM
Just because they should stay in their media space, Trevor, doesn't mean they will. Are they really bothered what software firms think of 'em?
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T Dap
04 March 2016 12:10 PM
They certainly should - especially after those awful figures last week. But they obviously think the new build market has a lot of potential, maybe they're right.
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T Dap
02 March 2016 10:18 AM
In fact, out of over 1,000+ listings looks like they are the only three agents listing on there.
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T Dap
02 March 2016 09:12 AM
Lots of Knight Frank, Chestertons and Savills properties on there, shock horror...
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T Dap
02 March 2016 09:07 AM
Maybe Connells are going to go down the hybrid route before CW then...
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T Dap
29 February 2016 17:13 PM
It's all well and good having this sort of thing on a trade forum and let's face it we all enjoy having a pop back in the comments. I just hope, hope and hope this doesn't get picked up in consumer press as it's a load of misleading rubbish!
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26 February 2016 17:07 PM
I wonder how much they pay their 'local property experts' or whatever eMoov call 'em...
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T Dap
26 February 2016 17:05 PM
Agreed - very strange thing to say. Although I guess 'retail' is their core business now!
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25 February 2016 14:22 PM
Anything is better than Zoopla's!
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T Dap
25 February 2016 10:07 AM
If this is the extent of the to-ing and fro-ing - we've got a long four months ahead!
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T Dap
23 February 2016 17:20 PM
The fact that he is an agent is neither here nor there... He just happens to be one. When he's not at work he's not representing the nation's estate agents.
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T Dap
22 February 2016 15:46 PM
An interesting idea - much better than a faceless serviced office. Maybe they'll win a grand prix award at the next ESTAs? ;)
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T Dap
19 February 2016 10:35 AM
Who's Mr Alison Platt? ;)
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T Dap
17 February 2016 09:57 AM
Probably on some new wires!
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T Dap
16 February 2016 10:19 AM
So the results of 'Project Shoreditch' are: the public still want to have face-to-face dealings with agents, so we're going to take a stake in two online companies'...
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T Dap
11 February 2016 11:00 AM
“the excitement and drama of the interview from both sides of the table.” - wow, sounds like riveting stuff!
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T Dap
11 February 2016 10:57 AM
Is the ship-jump not more to do with being owned by Connells than anything else?
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10 February 2016 09:58 AM
New logo? Countrywide Integrated jargon | tired staff
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09 February 2016 09:11 AM
Her viewpoint is spot on. The problem is there is too much rhetoric out there saying '90% of searches start online this/all you need to do is check RM & Z that.... Most of which has probably subtly been put out there by the portals' PR teams.
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T Dap
09 February 2016 09:09 AM
Wow this isn't great - one list no firm would want to be included in....No excuses, a poor show's a poor show.
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T Dap
08 February 2016 09:29 AM
Foxtons + Apprentice = story I guess.
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T Dap
08 February 2016 09:27 AM
To be fair, it sounds like Glentree have a lot in common with the average agent so their words must really mean something :P
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T Dap
05 February 2016 17:34 PM
high street agents currently have 64% of the vote, should be higher but that's what i like to see going into the weekend!
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T Dap
05 February 2016 17:33 PM
Doesn't always work - the bright lights of Dubai may not deliver all they promise. I remember reading about one agent that was recruiting - smith and something- that went bust not that long ago.
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03 February 2016 10:33 AM
That was a quick appointment. This seems to be the status quo among many of the big boys now - recruit from carphone warehouse, compare the market, bupa - go for online/retail experience as key criteria, interesting...
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02 February 2016 08:58 AM
Sounds like a 'non-runner' to me!
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T Dap
02 February 2016 08:55 AM
Cinema ads for estate agents... well, at least it's something a little different. Have to say the ad itself looks a little on the boring side - but i guess in the cinema there's no escaping you have to watch them, so might work!
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T Dap
01 February 2016 11:18 AM
What about the portals' handling of agents' data??
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T Dap
01 February 2016 11:16 AM
SOunds like a nice bloke!
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T Dap
28 January 2016 11:44 AM
Seems like no one wants to be an online agent any more - even the online agents! "We have introduced the No Sale No Fee model because we recognize this is a structure that the British public are familiar and comfortable with." - what a backtrack, weren't saying that before, were they?
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T Dap
27 January 2016 11:00 AM
Yes but didn't you know PB has 'local property experts' all over the country?!
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T Dap
20 January 2016 09:43 AM
But how accurate are all these figures, Karl? No one really knows do they? They're also so generalised and national which doesn't help...
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T Dap
20 January 2016 09:37 AM
Also - I don't understand how anyone could ever get even close to believing that this is true? "The company is thought by some to be the fourth-largest estate agency in the UK with a 60 per cent market share of new online instructions."
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T Dap
20 January 2016 09:36 AM
I think it's fair to call Woodford a so-called 'star' fund manager...I mean that's what he is, isn't he?
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T Dap
20 January 2016 09:35 AM
Nicely put, Tim - couldn't agree more. There's also a whole host of 'online' 'conveyancers' which I'm not too sure about either!
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T Dap
19 January 2016 17:21 PM
Expected findings - and it looks like Cameron will be on the campaign trail for the next few months trying to save his legacy and make sure it doesn't happen!
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T Dap
19 January 2016 09:43 AM
A good branch boost for OTM just before its 1 year anniversary - that is undeniable. What is questionable though is how big a win this is..It seems they hadn't been using Zoopla for some time so it's not a straight swap.
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T Dap
18 January 2016 15:22 PM
The NAEA's involvement in this is still a major sticking point for me. I understand that they want to promote full service agency - which i agree with - but I'm not sure getting involved in the AM/OTM battle is the right way of going about it. More visible campaigning/promotion of our industry would be time much better spent.
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T Dap
18 January 2016 15:20 PM
Countrywide just love 'retail' now, don't they? ;)
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T Dap
14 January 2016 11:50 AM
Interesting points, Elpus. I agree that the need for this so called debate is fast disappearing. I do however find it interesting that the NAEA wants to schmooze and give airtime to online agents like Purplebricks and emoov yet in the past has endorsed a portal which prohibits these agents from joining. I find the crossed wires very confusing, there is no clear message. If the NAEA wants to promote both business models - which is fine - then it must endorse things that have the polar opinion.
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