OPINION: PropTech – Is there anyone who actually cares about this?
Russell Quirk takes aim at what he describes as “PropTech evangelists”.
A Quirky View
Russell Quirk
A regulatory scandal
Russell Quirk offers his thoughts on the recent revelations surrounding both the RICS and NAEA Propertymark.
2021: Very insightful industry predictions
Russell Quirk peers into the crystal ball.
NAEA Propertymark dinosaurs – it’s time for another extinction event
Do you think that NAEA Propertymark is fit for purpose and can justify its member fees, the cash it’s sitting on and the golden salaries of its senior staff?
Fuxed? What next for the London agent
In many ways Foxtons resembles Countrywide in that it hasn’t changed in years despite the world and the industry changing around it.
There will be blood…
A Halloween themed piece - but a dead serious issue nonetheless.
Opinion: Another Brucie Bonus?
Competitors ‘promised’ to play fairly and ‘mutually’ until they smelt the cash on the Stock Exchange floor.
OPINION: Let’s party like it’s 2006
The music is on, the drinks are flowing and the party is in full swing and so enjoy it while it lasts - but keep an eye on the clock.
“If the horse is dead, get off” – John Wayne
Online estate agency is done. Not finished, but done. It has settled where it is and it will not grow further.
Very Vacant – the vacuum at the top of the industry’s significant companies – Part 2
Strategic direction must come from grass-roots property experience, not from the shiny certificate on an Oxbridge grad’s wall.
Very Vacant – the vacuum at the top of the industry’s significant companies – Part 1
Are the hirers for the top jobs looking in the wrong place?
Law unto themselves
Conveyancing seems a bit like playing pass the parcel in the dark. With drunk people.
Now be honest
'I used the word professionally just then. I don’t do so very often when talking about UK estate agents'
OPINION – What is wrong with women?
Why are women the best negs, the best listers, the best sales progressors and the best branch managers?
OPINION – What Rightmove should do next…
Portal urged to plan for the long game rather than just from the short-sightedness of a ‘CEO perspective’
Opinion: Will Rightmove listen to its customers and reinvent itself?
Threats to Rightmove's immortality – and why it must react
Online versus the high street: Time to abandon the battle lines and get closer
Emoov boss Russell Quirk explains why he is now having different thoughts about the future of estate agency
EYE Exclusive: Emoov could be interested in taking over Countrywide
Takeover? Emoov appears to put cards on table with warning that Countrywide must face up to need for fundamental transformation – and not just go back to the future
If Purplebricks and Yopa LPEs do not have workers’ rights, should public be told they are separate companies?
Opinion piece: Could self-employed Local Property Experts win workers' rights in wake of Pimlico Plumbers case?