Author: pauljhalliwell
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A Simple Map for Digital Property: The Signposting, the Rails, and the Trains
Project 28 launched in September with something the property industry rarely achieves: genuine consensus. A clear target – 28 days from sale agreed to exchange – and broad agreement that faster, more certain transactions are worth working towards. It’s hard to argue against that, which is precisely why it’s valuable. For once, everyone’s pointing in…
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Why I Was Wrong About Strength Training (And Why It Changed Everything)
I used to think strength training was bonkers. Not the casual “oh, that’s not for me” dismissal that most of us give to activities we can’t be bothered with. Proper bonkers. I’d watch Sohail—a friend who’d become completely fixated with powerlifting—and think he’d lost his mind. All that grunting, all that focus on shifting increasingly…
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Every Chain Has a Weakest Link: The Hidden Bottleneck in UK Transactions
Why Transaction Chain Visibility Is Now the Industry’s Most Urgent Challenge A £300,000 sale falling through because no one knew the chain had already broken three weeks earlier. It happens every day in UK property, and it’s entirely preventable. The culprit? Invisible chains that leave everyone working blind. Every property move is only as fast…
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The Future of Property Sales – 2025 – a report sponsored by ViewMyChain
ViewMyChain have pulled together contributions from some of the industry’s most interesting thinkers and published them in this “Future of Property Sales – 2025” report. It even includes a piece from me.
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Reading – Thought Provoking Links
I’m trying something new. Since Twitter isn’t a thing any longer I’m collecting the links that were interesting or thought provoking that I might have shared there into a single monthly post. Clearly posting them doesn’t mean I agree with everything said here; only observing that I thought that they were potentially worth a read.…
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ViewMyChain : What Home Buyers and Sellers Need Most From Their Estate Agencies
The UK property market is often described as a rollercoaster, and anyone who’s ridden that ride knows it can be an emotional rollercoaster too. Something that estate agents and conveyancers are all too well aware of, often taking the heat for events outside of their control …….. Published on Estate Agency Today 9/10/24
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The Chain Reaction: Why the Slowest Link Matters Most
My latest piece on property transactions, chains and what needs fixing. https://blog.viewmychain.com/the-chain-reaction-why-the-slowest-link-matters-most Originally written for Estate Agent Today. https://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/sponsored-content/2024/08/the-chain-reaction-why-the-slowest-link-matters-most/
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Not all estate agents are created equal …
Most of this originally appeared on the TwentyEA blog. _ One of the things that we’ve been interested in here at TwentyEA is how the asking price and the final sale price relate to each other and how the two of those relate to the “fair value” of a property. There are a number of different strategies employed by agents;…
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2019 in Lists
Books The Good Reads Reading Challenge. Childish I know but it seems to work – I read more when I’m reminded about this. 10,000 pages? Books of the Year? Principles by Ray Dalio and Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Music Nice graphics but quite random. Either their data is messed up or this family…
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Estate Agents, House Buyers & the fixation on asking prices
Me from the TwentyEA blog :- It seems to us at TwentyEA that this is less than half the story – what about what happens after the listing is won? Let’s take three agents; Agent 1 on average “over values” (and we know that the idea of fair value before a sale is something of an abstract one) by…
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