Rental Reform Meets A Courtroom Crisis

When the Renters’ Rights Act came into force earlier this year, one of the biggest changes was the e...

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Property Passports: A New Role for Search Agents?

Imagine buying a home and, along with the keys, receiving a digital record of the property’s history...

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The Uncopyable RealEstate Agent

False Belief Patterns — Part Three Parts One and Two of this series named the patterns: comparison, ...

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Property Matters: Rent Never Missed, Mortgage Still Refused

There is something about the mortgage market that, on the face of it, simply doesn't seem to make se...

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So Where Do The Council Stand?

After a two-week break from our live broadcasts, Cladding Matters is back this Friday at 1pm.And the...

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Property Quorum: Estate Agents – Experience or Qualifications?

Buying or selling a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most of us will ever make.Along t...

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IPSA Kind Of Magic: Right Data, Wrong Answer

We live in a world where more property information is available at the touch of a button than ever b...

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Accessibility Isn’t About Them. It’s About Us.

A few weeks ago, my colleague Chris Wood was travelling to a meeting on an overcrowded train when he...

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Property Matters: Whatever Happened to the Housing Officer?

There was a time when, if you lived in a council house, there was a reasonable chance you knew who y...

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Just Because AI Can Do It Doesn’t Mean We Should Let It

Property is racing towards AI agents that can act across a transaction. Before we hand the...

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More Regulation. More Risk. More Responsibility. Same Broken Transaction.

Something struck me while reading the property and legal press recently. Estate agents are...

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The Best Solutions in Property May Be the Ones You’ve Never Heard Of. Why?

There is a comforting idea in business that if you build something genuinely useful, event...

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The Industry Keeps Debating What’s Broken. Home Movers Have Already Told Us.

There is no shortage of people trying to explain what is wrong with home moving. Governmen...

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Follow the Incentive: Who Really Profits From the Way We Move Home?

There is an old principle in business: if you want to understand why a system behaves as i...

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Standards Are Not Control: Why WiggyWam Is Building Home Moving Differently

There is an understandable nervousness developing around the growing number of platforms t...

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The Final Countdown: Greenwich Must Answer

Last Friday was supposed to be Deadline Day.On Cladding Matters, we were expecting to discover where...

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Home Sellers: Your Preparation For The Sale Of Your Property Should Start Before A Buyer Is Found

Most people think selling a home starts when the photographs are taken, the property appea...

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Property Quorum: The Deadline Conveyancers Cannot Ignore

There always seems to be something else for conveyancers to think about.As if getting a property tra...

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Mortgage Brokers: Keep Hold of the Reins

In the last edition I referenced Aesop's Four Oxen and the Lion to illustrate what indepen...

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IPSA Kind Of Magic: Mistakes, Memories and Magic

When you have been doing a job for a long time, there are some days that simply disappear from memor...

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Apparently One in Three Home Sales Fall Through. The Old Way Is Running Out of Time.

One in three sales apparently fall through before completion. ( see whitepaper page 22 for...

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The Independents Have the Numbers. What They Lack Is Unity.

I grew up reading Aesop's fables and virtually every fairy tale I could get my hands on. L...

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Independent Conveyancers Need Infrastructure. But Who Should Control It?

For years, conveyancers have been told that technology is coming to change their professio...

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The Property Giants Are Joining Forces. It’s Time Independents Did Too

Something significant is happening in the UK housing market while much of the industry is ...

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The Age Of Low Standards

Most readers will know that I'm embarking on the journey of writing a book called Sold, Su...

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Home Moving Can Not Be Fixed By One Industry Or Profession, Nor By Platforms Reliant On Multiple Third Party Integrations

The home-moving process is once again the subject of proposed reform. Upfront information,...

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One Maverick Can Challenge the System. A Team Can Change It.

The word Maverick suggests independence. It describes someone willing to question conventi...

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You Cannot Manage a Property Chain You Cannot See

In the previous edition, I examined why one property transaction should not be managed acr...

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Sold Subject to Contract Is Far Too Late to Start the Transaction

Many people still treat Sold Subject to Contract as the starting point of the transaction....

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A Better System Is Not Enough. It Needs Better People.

In the first edition of this newsletter, I wrote about the uncomfortable reality of moving...

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