Is it time to cut the working week for estate agents?
Connells Group recently revealed major changes to working hours for thousands of staff across its brands – is it time for other estate agencies to follow suit?
The Agent Provocateur
Ed Mead is ex exec director of D&G, an independent commentator (www.ed-mead.com), and a founder of Viewber
Who’d want to be an estate agent?
Sadly, the estate agency industry is under attack from many angles potentially making recruitment even more difficult
What’s Labour planning?
You may think this is not going to affect you – but there appears to be no lower limit to the size of business affected
Which sort of intelligence is best?
How many people leave school with aspirations to become an estate agent?
Would ‘no sale no fee’ conveyancing help speed up housing transactions?
Will Ed Mead’s views conveyancers or solicitors and the role they play in the property buying process ‘prod the legal wasp’s nest’?
Why isn’t this causing more waves?
One trial beats a thousand ‘expert’ opinions; the findings ‘are, frankly, stunning’, says Ed Mead
It is time to take active steps to speed up transactions
Fact is that for almost all transactions agreeing a deal usually entails a solid 14–21-day delay before a meaningful contract goes out.
Gazumping – and why it benefits no one, least of all agents
Perhaps estate agents should defend themselves when the press implies gazumping is their fault.
PR – all over bar the shouting?
Some will read this and be spitting out their cereal, but I can’t help feeling shouty Property PR is death spiralling and subject to the law of diminishing returns.