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I wrote a post a while back bemoaning an agent’s take on social media and last week I came face to face with a similar position. I was sitting in an agent’s very quiet office last week. Everyone at their desks, no sound of a telephone. One particular young member of [...]

One of our servers fried today. Fortunately, we had a back up of sorts and all we lost was a days time in terms of work and no data lost.

As always, this prompted mild panic, meetings arranged and calls of we are all doomed from Dads Army.

Anyway, one task that I had [...]

Lawyers and estate agents working together. Isn’t the present climate bad enough?!

It is an old cliché joke, but there is a growing wave of change in the legal profession and with recent changes in the property industry (i.e. HIPS) there is plenty of scope for alliances to be made with lawyers.

Indeed, we [...]

The Negotiator magazine reports this month that the National Association of Estate Agents is throwing its hat into the portal ring.

In response to the increasing prices of the old marketing portals (rightmove were singled out as an example) the NAEA explains that its members were pressing for an upgrade of the NAEA portal. [...]

I like the Dad’s army theme and to continue in such spirit, Captain Mainwaring spoke yesterday to try and put his finger in the proverbial dyke.

As reported in the Economist, Gordon Brown outlined his legislative programme for next year. His solution, more steps to be taken to help first-time buyers.

Unfortunately, Pike’s mother [...]

Our survey is going well offline as well and the Rat and Mouse found this interesting interview from the chief economist at the Institute of Directors.

Will this sway our survey? We will have to wait and see, but basically he seems to be saying the decline is a readjustment in prices not a crash. [...]

The London Lite headline on 6 May 2008 stated that 150 estate agencies were closing each week.

The article explained that Movewithus predicted that about 4000 estate agents will shut by December. The NAEA were saying that banks need to free up mortgage applications and Spicerhaart have closed nine branches according [...]

Just a brief post to invite some comment on dothomes. Why do we not discuss them when talking about the other property search engines? Especially as they claim to have 2 million listings.

I am as guilty as the next person for not mentioning dothomes when I discuss property search. Is [...]

Following the recent Property Owl post regarding findaproperty and primelocation, our peers at rightmovez have also now heard the rumour that findaproperty and primelocation are going to merge.

They ask who will rise as the phoenix? A good question, but I imagine they will both run side by side initially and offer agents the [...]

A while back I wrote a post discussing keyword misspelling and the like.

To prove a point, I have just been researching our blog traffic (and thanks for reading by the way, it is going up). Anyway, a surprisingly popular keyword is a typo. I mistyped Globrix a while back, spelling it Glorbix. [...]