Business tips
Advice and ideas from leading residential property experts aimed at estate and letting agents.
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Strangling the landlords
Letting agents are now regularly being accused of profiteering from the shortage of rental property by pushing up rent. This is an absurd allegation but it is worth looking at what factors…
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The key to keeping landlords
Losing landlords is currently the biggest threat to a letting agency. Lisa Isaacs has some sound advice for holding on to them and winning new business.
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Taking the lead
As the market gets tougher, you need the latest tech to stay ahead. Richard Reed meets some clever service providers to help you do just that.
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WFH rules
A lot of working practices have changed forever as a result of Covid but more than three years after the pandemic started, the time has come when we must question whether all of these changes have been sensible. Let’s start with the issue of working from home. The arguments for and against this policy have become increasingly polarised. Staff say that commuting into work every day is a waste of their time and money. Many say that they are more productive when working from home because they don’t have to deal with constant interruptions from their colleagues. Some staff feel so strongly about working from home that they have changed jobs in order to avoid having to return to the office. Not all staff feel this way though. Many enjoy the camaraderie of being part of a team and feel very lonely when they have to work alone all day. Junior staff miss the opportunity to learn new skills from their more experienced colleagues. And many people who live in shared houses or have children at home do not have a quiet room at home in which to work. TWATS A third group of staff prefer to work from home…
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Branching out
For ambitious agents, there are shortcuts to fast business growth – but they take investment and commitment, as David Callaghan explains.
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Taking the lead
Leads are the lifeblood of agency, but what happens when leads dry up? Lisa Isaacs talks to the companies who help generate and nurture new business.
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Time to focus
Only last month I wrote a piece about how positive the outlook was for the housing market following Covid. Since then, dark clouds have returned with a vengeance.
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Where’s the exit?
Pandemic aside, 2021 may well go down as the year of acquisitions and business sales, says Charlotte Flake – and you may be in a sellers’ market.
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The big questions
Selling your business is a life-changing moment. Make sure it doesn’t change it for the worse, says legal expert, Michael Budd.
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New Year, new blood
With Covid on the rampage, recruitment has been pushed onto the back burner this year, despite the surge in sales – but as the experts tell Richard Reed, it could be a big mistake.
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