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We’re Only 6 Months Old, But…
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...
PR = SEO. Get With It Or Get Crushed
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...
The Future For Estate Agency – (Now the dust has settled)?
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...
City AM: Top 10 Affordable Boroughs For First Time Buyers
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...
Geeky Friday – HM Land Registry Dearest and Cheapest Homes
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...
Evening Standard: Home Buyers Save Up To £800,000
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...
Daily Mail: A Surprise Bounce For The Property Market
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...
Housing Decline – Crisis? What Crisis?
Government data revealed today by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government makes for grim reading.The least bad news is that overall numbers of housing increased year on year. But the small print of the release demonstrates a number of concerns whereby...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Agents Giving Mud Run 2019
Sunday May 19th 2019,11.20am. Brentwood, EssexThe tension builds as they near the starting line. Nerves are jangling as the motivational music builds and compere Rob Jelly of BBC Essex fame shouts encouragement from his Mad Max-esque podium. Smoke billows,...
Countrywide: Going Backwards To Go Forwards?
Taking a backward step has rarely resulted in forward progress. I mean, if Usain Bolt had stepped back from the starting blocks before starting his 100m world record bid it probably wouldn’t have assisted his time so much. And if Elon Musk had dusted off the...