The Do's And Don’ts For Building A Successful Career In Estate Agency
When I first left school, despite the fact that all my friendship group went off to univer...
Engagement At The Altar.
Engagement At The Altar. Two strangers hoping that they find affinity. Hoping that the 'marriage' la...
The Top Twenty Most Valuable Questions To Ask Yourself When Considering Switching Jobs in Conveyancing
After the chaos in the property market over the last few years, and the significant pressu...
The most important lessons you can learn from watching the movie (documentary) 'The Matrix'
For those of you who don't know me well, I have a confession to make. My favourite film of...
Why I choose to pay my mechanic MORE
I'm about to share something with you that I never share outside of my closest circles – I...
What Is The Number One Fear of Property Buyers?
Buying a new home is a huge decision, so it's not uncommon for many buyers to have some le...
Is there any guidance for buyers and sellers on the home moving process in the UK that goes deeper than ticklists?
We are regularly asked questions about the home buying and selling process from frustrated...
Avoid The Goldilocks Trap.
Received wisdom for homeowners looking to instruct an estate agency/realtor is to invite t...
Remarkable – How Brave Are You?
Remarkable - How Brave Are You? Hi, I'm Chris. I have a quick question for you. How brave are you? B...
DLUHC continues to support Local Planning Authorities to scale the adoption of digital citizen engagement tools
The PropTech Engagement Fund continues to build on its success as we launch the next round of fundin...
Using legal software to submit digital applications
Andrey Suslov/Shutterstock.com As of 30 November this year, applications into HM Land Registry are ‘...
Easy Choices – A Conveyancing Can Of Worms.
There's me thinking that estate agency has enough problems of its own - conveyancing is in...
How Conveyancers and Estate Agents can speed up property transactions
AND slash time-sucking administration AND MAKE MORE MONEY without having to invest a fortu...
Avoid The Goldilocks Trap.
Avoid The Goldilocks Trap. Received wisdom for homeowners looking to instruct an estate agency/realt...
HELP! It’s taking forever to exchange contracts on our dream property. Is there anything we can do to speed things up?
This was a question from an anxious buyer whose offer was accepted 2 months earlier. ...
Why A.I. won't save the property industry...
Whilst I was away in India recently, something strange happened to me... I made a phone ca...
The HM Land Registry portal redesign
Since it was launched in 2009, our customer portal has become the front door into HM Land Registry f...
Working in user-centred design at HM Land Registry
Why user-centred design is so important HM Land Registry records ownership changes for every registe...
Facebook – A Point Of No Return.
My third ever blog, August 2018, was headed "Facebook - An Omnipotent & Devious Priest...
You’ve-Got-To-Get-Yourself-Together
"You've-got-to-get-yourself-together. You're stuck in a moment and now you can't get...