Opinion piece: HMOs might yield more – but at what cost?
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The Agent Provocateur
Ed Mead is ex exec director of D&G, an independent commentator (www.ed-mead.com), and a founder of Viewber
Why weekend working is a festering issue in estate agency
Opinion: Issue of weekend working is not going to go away
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: Why there is only so much you can do to prevent property fraud
Land Registry should alert suspicious activity by text – it might help bring property frauds to an end
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: Open all hours? Or too busy looking at phones to get off them and provide service?
Opinion piece: Service please! Customers now expect 24/7 service – but are they getting it from you?
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: Is a REIT a good option for landlords who might be thinking of selling?
It is a different way of making money out of property – but could landlords (and agents) be on to a winner?
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: Has the time come to rethink Home Information Packs?
There are answers out there – but maybe too many vested interests as well
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: Alison Platt’s Countrywide missed a trick but at £1 it’s now a cheap buy
Battered Countrywide still has so much inherent ‘rightness’
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: To what extent are high street agents doing valuation work for the competition (and still not getting the instruction)?
Getting the price right – is a revolution in valuations coming?
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: Technology is fine to speed up home buying and selling but the old-fashioned phone is great too!
Technology is great but it’s human interaction that gets deals through
Continue Reading ...Agent Provocateur: So many housing ministers, so many policies . . .
Fifteen housing ministers in 20 years (and the latest seems almost invisible) but none really talk to those at the coal face
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