Category: Work
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The Coordination Tax: What All Property Delays Have in Common
The Infrastructure Now Exists What’s changed is not awareness of the problem: the industry has understood for years that property chains are the dominant source of delay, uncertainty and failure in home buying. What has changed are the constraints around addressing it. For a long time, shared chain visibility was theoretical. The data was fragmented…
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Why Conveyancers Are Doing Coordination Work They Were Never Meant to Do
For years, delays in property transactions have been quietly attributed to conveyancing. Too cautious. Too slow. Too overloaded. That framing misses something more fundamental. Conveyancers didn’t slow the system down. They inherited the job of holding it together. A Role That Quietly Expanded The modern conveyancer is no longer just responsible for legal diligence. In…
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Why Home Buying Is Still Slow: A Coordination Problem, Not a Motivation Problem
Every few years, the same question resurfaces: why does buying and selling a home still take so long, fall through so often, and feel so uncertain for consumers? The answers are usually familiar. Too much paperwork. Too many professionals. Not enough digitisation. A lack of urgency. A lack of accountability. But these explanations, while not…
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Why Chain Intelligence Is Property’s Missing Smart Data Infrastructure
How Shared Visibility Can Transform the UK Property Market The UK property market does not fail because people do not work hard enough. It fails because no one can see the whole picture. The Challenge of Chains in UK Property Around 55% of UK residential transactions sit inside chains. Buyers depend on sellers; sellers depend…
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AI | Context is King : December 2024
November ended with fragmentation. December brought an unexpected answer, though not the one I’d been looking for. I’m still capturing these as voice notes and working with Claude to structure them. The irony isn’t lost on me that I’m moaning about switching between tools whilst dictating this into my phone. But that’s rather the point…
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AI | The Great Unbundling: November 2024
I’m writing these not because I’ve worked it all out, but because I haven’t. We’re in the middle of something that matters, and there’s value for me in recording what it actually feels like to navigate this in real time – the frustrations, the small wins, the dead ends. These aren’t reflections on the future…
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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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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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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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