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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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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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I Love You Enough To Tell You The Truth

A few years ago, a good friend of mine called me out on something - and I'll be honest - i...

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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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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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One Transaction Should Not Be Managed in Six Different Places

In the previous edition, I argued that the property transaction should begin when the sell...

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Sold, Subject to Chaos

I'm writing a book about why moving home in Britain has become so painful. I don't want it...

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"Don't Think! Just Do."

There comes a moment in every professional's career when they intuitively know what to do....

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What Are You Working For?

Why do you get out of bed every morning? It's a simple question. But it has a habit of bec...

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What is a Maverick?

There's been a few comments raised recently about what a Maverick actually is and why its ...

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Where did it all go wrong?

There's no shortage of headlines talking about recent government announcements to reform t...

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"Trust me - I'm an estate agent!"

 Tony Robbins famously said "The strongest force in the universe is a human being liv...

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That's What You Get When You Put Someone in the Right Room

"WiggyWam isn't just a property portal. It's the first platform to put every person in a t...

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When the Right People Come Together, Something Special Happens

As They Say: Teamwork Makes The Dream Work!

There is something very powerful about loyalty and trust, especially in an industry that h...

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Your Badge Won't Save The Sale

There is a version of professional development in UK estate agency that is genuinely valua...

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The £575 Warning Shot: Why Material Information Can No Longer Be Treated as an Afterthought

A recent Property Ombudsman ruling should make every estate agent, conveyancer, broker and...

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Home Moving Will Not Be Fixed by Blame - It Will Be Changed by the Mavericks Willing to Work Together

There is something deeply uncomfortable about the way we talk about home moving in this co...

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Rock The Estate Agency Boat

Industry Commentary WiggyWam didn't announce itself. It arrived. And the people with the m...

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Upfront Information Is Right. But Who Is Really Being Served?

An article in Estate Agent Today ( read here ) caught my attention. It reported ...

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