We like a challenge and so when Marc Gershon of WinMyDreamHome.com was referred to us by an existing client, we were intrigued.Marc is a property developer and has refurbished a house in Kentish Town, London - value £2.1m. But instead of selling it in the conventional...
Warning - This is a gratuitous, self-congratulatory article. We're going to gush for a few minutes... Bear with us.When James and I set up Properganda as a PR agency we had high hopes for the business. We wanted to achieve for other property businesses that which we...
Elsewhere on this website we bang on about how gaining PR coverage feeds SEO.What's SEO? It means 'search engine optimisation' and is the thing that determines where your website ranks in search pages according to Google.If you rank poorly, no one will ever find you...
In 2006, when I first started to evangelise about 'the future of estate agency being online', I was convinced that democratisation, commoditisation and cheaper fees facilitated by centralisation, technology and the consequential cost savings, would prevail.After...
The City of London is the least affordable London borough for first-time buyers, according to new research that has ranked the capital’s best and worst spots for hopeful homeowners.Hackney, Haringey, Brent and Camden joined the Square Mile as the five most...
This week saw the release of HM Land Registry's latest price paid data report for April. if you're a property geek as we are there are a number of stats in the numbers that you might find interesting and that we thought we mention:There were 394 property sales that...
As any London house hunter knows, if you want to live close to the river, you will have to pay a premium. Studies show that a view of the Thames is a London property’s most expensive asset, commanding price premiums of up to 93 per cent. But for those on the lookout...
The number of house buyers getting a mortgage has climbed to its highest level in over a year.A total of 42,989 mortgages were approved in April, said banking trade body UK Finance, up 11.5 per cent on a year earlier. Lending rose by around £1.8 billion. Streets...
