The Property Owl Blog

War is declared! A war to rise from the depths of the public mind. And it promises to be a bloody fight.

Self proclaimed defenders of the ordinary man (Solicitors) have struck against the villainous scourge which is the estate agent market.

Solicitors have moved quickly (in legal terms!) to draw [...]

What a great story and what a great way for some free advertising to get that property sold.

The BBC reports that an 18-year-old ‘… secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents’ £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They [...]

As the current real estate magazines get smaller, print on cheaper paper and offer near on free advertising it is somewhat surprising to receive a press release for a new all singing all dancing real estate magazine.

From the publishers of the NAEA magazine comes Propertydrum, which I am told will be ‘… a large, [...]

A different look at Twitter, which is a marketing for an animated news channel. Just thought it may be of interest.

the twouble with twitter

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The Negotiator magazine reports recently on a call for agents to be registered. Yes, I still read the magazines from time to time, but only if they are free.

Anyway, Big Bill McClintock (the Ombudsman for Estate Agents) is forming a steering committee (various definitions, but I like ‘… a committee to arrange [...]

A rather unusual debate is stirring with questions being asked of Zoopla as to whether it is listing private sellers. I say unusual because Zoopla is denying it and responding to questions as if they were politicians, i.e. yes they have weapons of mass destruction and no I never had sex with that woman [...]

I have posted many times about the hopelessness of house raffles, but here is a report of one that has actually been won (allegedly!).

I am a cynic at the best of times and whilst I am suspicious about the actual story behind this ‘winner’ the more important point is that the developer who [...]

It would appear that Foxtons are hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. They are being sued by a Landlord client who alleges Foxtons let her flat to a Russian prostitute.

Not great on the face of it, but it gets worse as the tenant apparently trashed the flat and [...]

I don’t normally discuss house price data, mortgage data, stats, Lies, damned lies and statistics, but I have been sucked into the whirlpool of despair that is the current housing market.

I can’t find it now, but I have seen stats for sales in January and I think I read it correctly [...]

There is an ongoing debate on JRA about Property Live. One issue being discussed is the images they have chosen. The images of agents they are using on the home page and throughout the site have universally been labelled as stock photographs. But now it would appear that these photographs are of [...]