Brexit, the subsequent prospect of a 'no deal' Brexit and then the pandemic. These were all events that triggered prophecies of a fall in house prices. Yet, in that eight year period house prices in the UK have risen by an average of 67%. Oops. The property market and...
"Help", said the caller one Saturday afternoon (yes, we responded to a customer enquiry on a Saturday afternoon). "Google have switched our ads off!" The detail surrounding why does not matter except to say that Google have some very strange and rigid rules - and...
I was delighted to be asked to chair this panel on How To Become a Developer Landlord comprised of the wise and the wonderful, at the recent Property Investor Media Ltd Show at the Excel. It was great fun to do and, if I do say so myself, rather informative (albeit...
ProperPR hasn't been big on entering awards competitions in its short but expansive history. In fact it's never entered one. Pressure of time as the business has expanded fast has been the main reason but also because when you're a young business you have less of a...
Against the backdrop of the sad death of our Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, Britain has just seen broadcast coverage across the formal ten days of mourning like never else. It was an honour and a privilege that Russell was asked to commentate on the state funeral...
Not really a Budget in the formal sense, yet Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's announcements have been received with the wallop of one of the most controversial fiscal launches in modern history. We won't comment much on the politics involved but have set out a summary of...
A regular contributor to media as a property expert, ProperPR Co-Founder Russell Quirk is also a 'political hobbyist' as he terms it. So in addition to gracing the airwaves of TalkTV, LBC, GB News and the BBC with his expert opinion on all things property he is often...
In February, as Russian forces aimed their attack on Ukraine, many families in the east of the country hastily packed what they could and ran. Anastasia Shpot, her mother and her two sisters were one such family that fled Donetsk as bullets and rocket fire intensified...
