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Gordon Brown

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Director and landlord

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Algarve Investor - I don't the wife would be too pleased if I had a Mistress bedroom in the house.

From: Gordon Brown 06 July 2020 16:46 PM

Virtual signalling at it's worst!

From: Gordon Brown 06 July 2020 12:56 PM

Is this Nationwide's 'Ratner' moment?

From: Gordon Brown 02 June 2020 12:35 PM

Does anyone remember Myspace? Exactly! No one is too big to fall! If Rightmove want to be the agents friend they should slash their prices accordingly!

From: Gordon Brown 22 April 2020 12:12 PM

This is not good enough. It has gone quiet on Rightmove leads already so we are paying out thousands of pounds for nothing and deferring for 3 or 6 months is only moving the problem to a later date. They will only do it for agents who can afford it which is much like the banks. If you don't need the money they'll lend it to you. If you do need it they won't!

From: Gordon Brown 18 March 2020 09:54 AM

Yet another new hybrid agency to "shake up the industry". Yawn!

From: Gordon Brown 03 March 2020 09:27 AM

It doesn't help when corporate agents treat their staff like s**t. That is why we set our own business up.

From: Gordon Brown 07 January 2020 09:35 AM

Stop blaming Brexit for bad management!

From: Gordon Brown 04 November 2019 11:30 AM

In my experience over several industries, qualifications do not necessarily equate to competence. I am guessing this is likely to be costly both in terms of time and money.

From: Gordon Brown 19 September 2019 10:02 AM

"House values could plummet 20% in pollution hotspots" Or they could increase by 20%. I can make wild claims as well "the organisation behind a new clean-air website is encouraging buyers to seek reductions of as much as 20 per cent on homes for sale in pollution hotspots". Good luck with that!

From: Gordon Brown 17 September 2019 12:41 PM

Nobody in their right minds will vote for Labour, Lib Dems or SNP. If there is a general election the Tories/Brexit party will clean up.

From: Gordon Brown 29 August 2019 09:38 AM

Reduce stamp duty and more property will sell. The result being the amount of revenue actually increases.

From: Gordon Brown 16 July 2019 13:24 PM

What a load of cobblers! It's fashionable to blame Brexit on everything these days. The market will go down and the market will go up just like it always does.

From: Gordon Brown 27 June 2019 16:10 PM

Obviously a remainer There are basement flats on the market for over £1 million in central London. Maybe they were overpriced in the first place

From: Gordon Brown 21 June 2019 10:00 AM

You have hit the nail on the head Simon. The winners being big builders with influential friends.

From: Gordon Brown 25 May 2019 10:28 AM

That's right, blame Brexit for your own inadequacies!

From: Gordon Brown 20 May 2019 11:08 AM

The problem is it is too easy to make a claim. We had a landlord complain to the Ombudsman that we should have foreseen that a tenant would stop paying their rent. This was despite the tenants previously paying every month for over a year. Thankfully it was thrown out but the amount of work it creates to defend your case gets bigger every year.

From: Gordon Brown 08 May 2019 09:58 AM

It depends on what area you are in. We stopped opening on Sundays years ago and only open until 2pm on a Saturday. Even Saturdays are dead now with very little footfall. I guess we can blame the internet for that. We close 5.30pm during the week and 5pm on a Friday. We have not seen any difference in loss of business and our staff appreciate the balance between work and home life.

From: Gordon Brown 16 March 2019 09:51 AM

Pot, Kettle, Black! MP's need to keep their own house in order first

From: Gordon Brown 08 March 2019 10:54 AM

It's so easy to blame bad management on Brexit these days.

From: Gordon Brown 07 March 2019 13:21 PM

If £1,000 is the average why are we being told by Rightmove that the minimum we can pay is much higher?

From: Gordon Brown 01 March 2019 09:38 AM

Business is booming where we are. Stop blaming Brexit! There is only uncertainty because some people cannot accept a democratic vote!

From: Gordon Brown 25 February 2019 14:40 PM

There is an agency called Smooth Move in our area. I'm not sure of the legal implications of this.

From: Gordon Brown 12 February 2019 09:36 AM

We've already had a people's vote in 2016!

From: Gordon Brown 11 January 2019 10:47 AM

Property industry and financial experts? You couldn't make this up! Did someone not realise that there is a big company out there already called Your Move?

From: Gordon Brown 08 January 2019 11:02 AM

“In a seller’s market where property prices are on the rise and the amount of effort required to sell a property is not too overwhelming, the online agency model can prove effective” says Goldenberg in a blog. What vendors don't realise and high street agents know all too well is that finding a buyer is the easy part. Getting the sale to completion is probably 90% of the job and it is where we really earn our money. You don't get this with online agents who take your money upfront and then move on to the next mug who thinks he has got a great deal!

From: Gordon Brown 18 December 2018 11:55 AM

Agents are being squeezed left right and centre with the tenants fee being banned and sales commission at less than 1%. Now people want to take away the one reasonably profitable income stream we have!

From: Gordon Brown 06 November 2018 13:56 PM

We get most of our business because of the High Street location. Many viewers may use the internet to search for properties but the vendors like to see an office on the High Street. Vendors are the most important and without them we wouldn't have any houses to sell!

From: Gordon Brown 28 September 2018 09:36 AM

Blame Brexit as usual instead of poor management

From: Gordon Brown 03 May 2018 13:29 PM

The problem is, if you vote Labour it definitely will get worse

From: Gordon Brown 28 April 2018 11:52 AM

Rightmove are already upsetting agents by excessively raising fees! Another increase is due of over 10%. With the competition from online agents meaning lower fees from sales, any increase from Rightmove is crippling for smaller agents. It is getting to the point where we will have to seriously consider dropping Rightmove and looking at the alternatives!

From: Gordon Brown 16 March 2018 13:53 PM

The general public will probably never hear about this. How about forcing Purple Bricks to admit that they mislead people in a television advert!

From: Gordon Brown 18 October 2017 10:20 AM

Who? He sold a £670,000 house for £99 commission? Who's the mug?

From: Gordon Brown 17 October 2017 10:01 AM

Well that's a huge shock. I didn't see that one coming given the fact that the government insisted on keeping EPC's even though nobody looks at them. No doubt council tax will follow suit This will probably cause the market to stagnate even more as people will struggle to sell lower rated properties.

From: Gordon Brown 12 October 2017 12:08 PM

Surely if they are freelance they are not employed

From: Gordon Brown 19 September 2017 09:55 AM

What a load of nonsense! People will blame Brexit for the weather next!

From: Gordon Brown 21 August 2017 09:59 AM

"looking at how we increase security for good tenants" Landlords want to keep good tenants. You don't need to legislate for this

From: Gordon Brown 18 May 2017 13:34 PM

"Charles Dunstone / Roger Taylor having just invested £13m in HouseSimple" You would have to sell a lot of houses at £495 a time to recoup that sort of money!

From: Gordon Brown 17 March 2017 09:23 AM

"An online estate agency which says it could be the next Purplebricks says prejudice against internet property transactions is waning" They would say that wouldn't they!

From: Gordon Brown 17 March 2017 09:22 AM

How about stopping Stamp Duty altogether! Why should you have to pay tax for the pleasure of buying something you need to live in?

From: Gordon Brown 06 March 2017 10:11 AM

"It says this is a bid to satisfy residents who have complained of ‘clutter’ in their streets because of signs left up inappropriately" Yeah right! More like residents think the value of their property might be affected by a large number of boards! There is a word for people like these. NIMBY

From: Gordon Brown 23 January 2017 11:13 AM

Are the FCA going to investigate individual banks and building societies as well to ensure that "mortgage applicants feel they can make an informed choice between rival products and whether they are given the right information to judge whether a mortgage deal represents good value for money." What happened to buyers having a bit of common sense and to know that it is better to shop around?

From: Gordon Brown 13 December 2016 12:32 PM

Just to be curious to see what they offered I invited a "local property expert" from Purple Bricks to value my property. Not only did they not have a clue on the valuation for my area it turns out she lived 30 miles away and covered the whole of Nottingham and Mansfield. So much for local!

From: Gordon Brown 22 November 2016 11:56 AM

Brexit will not affect sales in the real world outside of London. What will make a difference though is the additional and excessive stamp duty on buy to let properties. I for one will definitely not be buying any more rental properties for this reason alone!

From: Gordon Brown 03 November 2016 11:52 AM

What a load of nonsense

From: Gordon Brown 14 October 2016 10:41 AM

Typical vendor believing that a different agent could sell their house for thousands more. Market value is market value! I don't believe the bit about the fee. If she had signed a contract for 1% the agent could not charge her 1.5%. That is why it is called a contract!

From: Gordon Brown 07 October 2016 09:24 AM

It's about time these people washed their hair, had a shave and got themselves a job!

From: Gordon Brown 09 September 2016 11:28 AM

I wouldn't give a penny to shelter! They are a self serving political movement who clearly have an anarchic agenda. As Kate Faulkner has pointed out there are plenty of first time buyer properties available at affordable prices even for couples on the minimum wage all over the country. If people can't afford to buy in London then move! There are too many people in this country who keep on bleating that life is not fair and always demand something for nothing.

From: Gordon Brown 21 April 2016 10:54 AM

And as for we need to be in to have any influence. Well that myth was truly blown out of the water with the sight of Cameron scrambling around Europe's leaders asking for very little and getting even less. We have about as much influence in the EU as we do in Eurovision. We are one of the largest partners in Eurovision and pay the most money (ring any bells) and look where that usually gets us. Nil points!

From: Gordon Brown 03 March 2016 11:39 AM

The difference is my friend that British nationals working abroad are doing just that. They do not go and live in Spain and sponge off the state. We should have a points based system for anyone wanting to work here. As it stands millions of people have the right to come and live here without having a job. A problem that will only get worse when Turkey are allowed in. Regarding copying Norway, that is myth perpetuated by 'call me Dave' to try and fool people like you (It's working) that nothing will be gained. We do not want the Norway model. We want to be a sovereign country again. We are the 5th largest economy in the world. The EU are not going to charge us to trade with them. Maybe we should charge them to trade with us? Our membership of this club is costing us £350 million a week! The NHS, Education, Police etc can't cope any more and we are sending £350 a week to the EU? It beggars belief!

From: Gordon Brown 03 March 2016 11:31 AM

Absolute nonsense! There is uncertainty in the housing market for all sorts of reasons. Staying in the EU is the worst thing that can happen to this country as we get strangled by more and more regulation. We need to get out to get control over our own laws and reduce the red tape. Controlled immigration would also make it easier for first time buyers as prices won't be forced up by the higher demand we have now. More first buyers means more second and third time buyers. That would bring a healthy housing market. Liam Bailey clearly has another agenda!

From: Gordon Brown 01 March 2016 09:39 AM

So much for being innocent before being proven guilty

From: Gordon Brown 16 February 2016 10:00 AM

The problem is of course that the delays are mainly down to conveyancers not talking to each other. Pushing the cut off point back to 6pm will only serve to delay what could have been done earlier as human nature dictates that people work to deadlines and will leave it until the last minute.

From: Gordon Brown 22 December 2015 10:02 AM

"At a pre-Christmas drinks party with Strutt & Parker, one senior agent there told me that for the first time he was going to launch a property to the market on Christmas Eve: this was, in his words, “to catch the Rightmove market on Christmas Day.” This senior agent obviously doesn't work on the front line. It is dead now let alone over Christmas! I would also suggest there is something wrong with the hits Rightmove are recording if they are claiming 15 million on Christmas day. I for one have better things to do on that day than searching for a new house!

From: Gordon Brown 12 December 2015 10:53 AM

I can't believe any Estate or Letting Agent would back Labour. Did he not read what they wanted to do to our industry? I am not condoning any vandalism but this man must be stupid!

From: Gordon Brown 19 May 2015 09:43 AM

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