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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Home Moving Is Finally In The Process Of Being Fixed. Be Careful Who Owns It.

For years, almost everybody involved in moving home has agreed on the problem. The process is too sl...

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Why Pay for an Introduction to Someone Who Is Already Looking for You?

There is something about modern lead generation that feels unnecessarily complicated. Imagine somebo...

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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 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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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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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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Moving with the times: the future of moving home is already here

For years, the property industry has talked endlessly about the future. We have discussed the future...

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The UK Home Buyers Are Coming Back. What Are You Going to Do Differently This Time?

There are finally a few green shoots appearing in the housing market, and I suspect plenty of estate...

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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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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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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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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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