WFH, we’ve been doing it for four years…
Working from home requires discipline and appropriate company oversight.
The Agent Provocateur
Ed Mead
is ex exec director of D&G, an independent commentator (www.ed-mead.com), and a founder of Viewber
Agent Provocateur: Maintaining mental health in troubled times
OPINION PIECE: Importance of mental health has never been more in focus...
Agent Provocateur: How can estate agents monetise a new generation of buyers?
Opinion piece: Agents will have to reach out to, engage with and make money from buyers in future
Agent Provocateur: Is remote working a better recipe for work/life balance?
Could your agency consider allowing employees the choice of working from home?
Agent Provocateur: Will independents at last have a united voice?
New group buying initiatives could be great news for independent agents who put their customers first
Agent Provocateur: Politicians and the strangling of the private rental sector
Opinion: Will politicians even care about the fall-out, which could take ages to unravel?
Agent Provocateur: Could HMOs turn out to be not the golden goose that investors hope for?
Opinion piece: HMOs might yield more – but at what cost?
Why weekend working is a festering issue in estate agency
Opinion: Issue of weekend working is not going to go away
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
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?
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?
Agent Provocateur: Has the time come to rethink Home Information Packs?
There are answers out there – but maybe too many vested interests as well
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'
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?
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
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
Agent Provocateur: And on the seventh day do you rest – or get on with business?
Why does estate agency have such a blind spot about Sundays?
Agent Provocateur: Are wealthier owners falling out of love with the property market?
When you see ten For Sale signs in one street in a rural hotspot – what's going on?
Agent Provocateur: Why won’t the public put more value on agents – and is it our fault?
Opinion piece: The Government won't listen because what ministers want is self-regulation and low fees
Agent Provocateur: A key question – and how to sort it once and for all
KEYS! How Bluetooth can sort out the long-standing agents' bugbear in one fell swoop