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Martin Moston
Martin Moston
Group Operations Director
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Massive Man City fan

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30 + years in estate agency.

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The Government need to sort this out urgently, Yet another block of apartments in Salford have just had their ground rent increased from £257 pa to £413 pa, making them pretty much un-mortgageable. Having 10 year reviews and decreasing lease term is a recipe for disaster.

From: Martin Moston 25 March 2024 07:48 AM

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Another stupid idea that will end up with these so called 'agents' doing it for nothing just to survive, when will our industry learn to just do the job as its intended and charge a reasonable fee for all the hardwork we have to do and put up with..

From: Martin Moston 20 March 2024 15:46 PM

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You want to look in the North West, agents quoting 0.3-0.75% on a daily basis, its embarrassing. As you say' its a race to the bottom'

From: Martin Moston 13 October 2023 08:03 AM

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So what is the fall through rate, anybody ?

From: Martin Moston 27 September 2023 08:01 AM

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Mortgages at affordable levels, its not what we are hearing from clients looking to sell. In Manchester rents are at an all time high but its now cheaper to rent than buy for the first time ever. As an industry we just cant seem to say, The market is bad and its going to get worse.

From: Martin Moston 13 September 2023 08:22 AM

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Unfortunately there is going to be a complete meltdown in the housing market at these rates combined with high asking prices which cannot continue. If you take into consideration the average apartment in Manchester is priced around £250,000 with monthly service charge of £300 plus council tax £156 and Electric at £250 thats over £700 on top of your £1520 mortgage payment. You knock £25,000 off the asking price and the mortgage reduces by £170, hardly a saving.

From: Martin Moston 30 June 2023 08:07 AM

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An article as dull as dishwater

From: Martin Moston 05 January 2023 11:33 AM

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Nonsense report, how do they know how many viewings took place on an 'open house' viewing block or that the agent always drove to a viewing. Be interesting to find out how many sales you would agree with the virtual viewing client apposed to an actual in person one. I can just hear the conversation with the owner, ' well Mr A viewed it, loved it and has offered x, Mrs B said from the virtual viewing she loved it and has offered x, WHICH CLIENT DO YOU PREFER? I'm all for reducing our carbon footprint. Why not get the owner to do them :)

From: Martin Moston 27 September 2022 17:21 PM

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Really, is this whilst you're trying to get the listing from the other agents, when you have several best and final offers or just don't bother taking the instruction? not good advice or just trying to cover every eventuality. Best Agent ?

From: Martin Moston 24 August 2022 13:58 PM

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very underwhelming website.

From: Martin Moston 21 December 2021 09:00 AM

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quick google search... Recent research indicates that, on average, Britons move once every 23 years, which is a statistic that will no doubt be quite surprising to many.13 Mar 2019, obviously not to Chris. we all want repeat business and we certainly look after our buyers and sellers but there are so many factors why someone chooses one agent over another.

From: Martin Moston 21 December 2021 07:56 AM

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Makes good business sense, average mortgage fee charge to client £400 average fee from lender £1000. Plus solicitor fee plus life insurance commission. Why worry about selling a house for £995 like PB do.

From: Martin Moston 29 April 2021 07:51 AM

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In the perfect world yes all this information is key. Problem is most owners don't know the length of a lease or if its RPI or a doubling ground rent. Who gets the blame and fined if wrong. The good old hardworking agent. Dealing with City centre apartments most online agents don't even know what a EWS-1 form is never mind advertising service charges. and ground rents :)

From: Martin Moston 21 April 2021 08:01 AM

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In agreement... if they walked into a bank and robbed £7.7 million it would be headline news and they would go to jail for a long time, Hardly a deterrent is it? Slap on wrist

From: Martin Moston 31 March 2021 07:47 AM

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Nothing other than another big payday for Bruce. Lockdown can do strange things to the mind...

From: Martin Moston 29 January 2021 08:55 AM

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A lot of tied up income for agents but where does EAT get this average fee of 1.5%. Most agents are charging 1-1.25% then factor in PB average fee, I'd love to know who's getting 2% plus? . If the average house price in the UK is £245,443 @ 1.5% that's a lovely £3,681.65p plus vat.... I would suggest they redo these figures or pick up the phone and actually talk to agents. Taking nothing away from these numbers the industry has a massive challenge ahead and so do the solicitors in keeping as much of these pipelines alive. Any new sales that are being agreed now are looking at 20-24 week completions according to the solicitors. Busy busy times ahead.

From: Martin Moston 20 January 2021 08:19 AM

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There's gonna be a lot of work for agents to do come March with more than 100,000 disappointed clients on the phone asking what we are going to do about it. Bound to be our fault...

From: Martin Moston 18 January 2021 08:05 AM

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We know that the consumer wants a high st agent with all their knowledge, work ethic and expertise for an online price. Due to the likes of purple bricks and others who promise the earth and say they are the same just without an office. We work so hard for our clients to help them sell and the amount of time we spend sales chasing and keeping deals together is unbelievable.

From: Martin Moston 07 January 2021 09:59 AM

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Without our properties Boomin has nothing, is worth nothing so why dilute the 3 portals we have? We agents are funny always looking for a quick fix to a problem that doesn't really exist.

From: Martin Moston 07 January 2021 08:26 AM

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We knew from the beginning when it started and when its due to end. Yes some transactions will miss out but having this stamp duty holiday it better than having nothing. It will highlight those good agents and solicitors who work closely to get them over the line. Its about managing your clients expectations. We know its taking up to 22 weeks for exchanges to happen, so anything agreed in November onwards shouldn't financially be reliant on the saving. if it is then there's a lot of fall throughs going to happen. Don't bury your heads in the sand, deal with it.

From: Martin Moston 17 December 2020 08:48 AM

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“engaging with agents on Boomin’s behalf” Why ?

From: Martin Moston 27 November 2020 08:24 AM

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Hmmmm the client signs an agreement which states the fee inc vat, we sell it for them and spend months making sure it exchanges so they can move and 58% of owners didn't know this, surely not. or list it with Strike and fingers crossed, good luck with that one.

From: Martin Moston 06 November 2020 08:16 AM

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Couldn't agree more....A lemming is a small rodent. The stereotypical view of a lemming is that if one lemming jumps over a cliff then hundreds of others will follow blindly. Someone can 'be a lemming' if they follow others without thinking.

From: Martin Moston 21 October 2020 07:38 AM

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Boomin describes the 10 as “some of the most respected, forward thinking and award winning estate agencies up and down the country.” of course they would say that...... are they also mad ?

From: Martin Moston 16 October 2020 07:33 AM

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why include under offer and sstc? take these out and the number of available properties will half. Who does this research, we all know that most agents keep properties marked sold long after they have completed.

From: Martin Moston 08 September 2020 08:11 AM

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I cant see the day that any vendor would be happy to pay on a monthly basis, the argument would always be, 'the longer it takes you to sell it the more it cost me' Good agents do a great job, getting the best price in what is a very challenging market. I agree that the sales chasing process is far too long and takes up time that could be best spent selling. Vendors need to be educated that the real work starts when its sold.

From: Martin Moston 30 October 2019 08:02 AM

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