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  • Estate Agents Overvaluing will Cost You Dearly

    October 2024
    Are you gullible? I ask this as there is an increasingly growing trend amongst some estate agents to heavily overvalue property, in a poorly conceived logic of simply getting property onto their books at whatever cost. One of the worst…
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  • Estate Agent or Concierge or Both?

    March 2024
    Buyers are hiding! Long gone are the days of simply slinging a property on Rightmove, keep your fingers crossed and let the leads come in. With so much information out there online, whether it floorplans, numerous photographs or a full…
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  • The Property Viewing Commandments

    August 2023
      Property viewings are where the worlds of science and art converge. There are elements that are logical, but more often than not it is a feel of how to conduct them. One needs to remember, that by the time…
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  • How To Create Time In A Property Transaction

    June 2023
      As I am lying in the dentist’s chair for my annual check-up, squirming around like an upturned woodlouse, I am thinking to myself ‘if only I could control the time this took and make it as pain free as…
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  • Should Hunting Exist in Property?

    December 2022
      Should hunting exist in property? I say this as if I changed my name to Kwasi Truss and made a hash of the economy, I can simply say I got it wrong and step away from the whole situation…
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  • The Only Way is Property Tsar

    September 2022
      As we bid a sad farewell to Marcus Jones, many of you will be asking, ‘who?’ I can understand this entirely, as Mr Jones was of course our last housing minister who was in the role for a whole…
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  • Does Property Experience Count for Nothing?

    August 2022
      Another day, another ‘disruptor’ Every week, there seems to be a new challenger and self proclaimed ‘disruptor’ having a pop at the estate agency sector, bringing their new sparkling product to the market, that claims to be the answer…
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  • The Environment and New Homes – The Emerging Scandal?

    July 2022
      “Failure” “Failure” is the term used by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) who advises the government, when it comes to the UK’s plans to limit climate change and we are highly likely to miss our net zero target by…
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  • The Property Card Game

    April 2022
      I often think that playing the property game, is like a game of cards. You have to best use the cards you have been dealt to greatest effect in order to achieve the right outcome, whilst not giving the…
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  • Del Boy Trotter and PLC New Homes

    December 2021
      Only Fools and Horses – the ultimate British sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Del Boy and his brother Rodney on their mission to get rich. However, when it comes to PLC new homes, it would seem that…
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  • Why Is The Yorkshire Property Market Performing So Well?

    December 2021
      It’s time for the current space race between Branson and Bezos to step aside. Yorkshire has its own property rocket, which has recently hit new heights in the stratosphere. The relentless pace in the market has been nothing short…
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  • How To Be An Attractive Buyer?

    November 2021
      Ask any estate agent how many potential buyers come to them and say they are ‘cash’ and they will usually sigh and roll their eyes. This term is often thrown around quite nonchalantly and buyers need to be wary…
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  • Take a listen to Alex Goldstein’s chat with Saam Lawni on this episode of Property People. He is discussing, among other things, regulations throughout the property market, the growing popularity of the north and how the digital age is affecting property buying and selling.

    Alex Goldstein And Saam Lowni Interview | Property People

    October 2021
  • Yorkshire Property Market Predictions

    September 2021
      Well it has certainly been quite a year so far in the property market – especially in Yorkshire. Continued stories of ferocious competition, block viewing days, best and final offers, gazumping and there doesn’t seem to be much let…
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  • The Hidden Property Sector

    September 2021
      There has been a part of the property market that has been steadily gaining strength which I refer to as ‘the hidden property sector’. This hidden sector is the off-market sector, and remains hidden to many. To the uninitiated, these…
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