Everyone Wants Change. Until Someone Has to Pay for It.

There is something I keep coming up against in property, and the more I think about it, the more I r...

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The estate agent isn’t the problem. The conveyancer isn’t the problem. The transaction is.

There is a familiar game being played in the property industry again. Transactions are taking too lo...

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Estate Agents. Conveyancers. Brokers. Share the Status. Not the Secret.

Britain is moving towards one of the biggest changes to home buying in decades. The Government's ref...

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The Little Black Book Reminder That People Never Forget How You Made Them Feel

I had one of those conversations today that stays with you long after it ends. I was talking to some...

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The Portal Era Isn’t Ending. It’s Becoming Less Important.

For more than twenty years, the property industry has treated the portal as the centre of the digita...

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Stop Buying More Leads. Start Completing the Sales You Already Have.

The property industry has become exceptionally good at generating opportunities. It has portals desi...

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

The property industry is racing towards AI agents that can act across a transaction. But before we h...

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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, eventually 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 being ask...

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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 to be my ...

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The Best Commodity Around

A friend of mine was an international public speaker. To break the ice on stage, whenever he introdu...

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The Cost Of A Label

Imagine you and I are walking down the street together to go and get a coffee. To the person walking...

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The Cost Of The Clique

You and I both know there is a clique within the property industry. And we both know know who they a...

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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 - it hurt. He...

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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, Subject To C...

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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. They've r...

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The True Cost Of Selling Your Soul

Nobody sets out to sell their soul. It happens gradually. You start a business because you want inde...

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Trust & Industry.

— Part I of 2 The Architecture of Distrust Consumer trust in real estate agents didn't collapse by a...

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What Type of Table Works Best in a Small Space?

The best table for a small space uses compact dimensions, efficient shapes, and flexible d...

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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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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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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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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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