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Help To Buy Goes To The Aid Of The Party 14 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
Debate around Help To Buy has hitherto looked at its possible creation of a housing bubble, especially through the Mortgage Guarantee element being launched in the new year. But newspapers are now sn...
Regions To Be Cheerful (Or Not) 29 Jul 2013 | 02:55 am
There is a prevailing wisdom (which I share) that the economy and the housing market are both recovering, at least a little. But it is important to look behind the national headline figures and to re...
Fallen Land - A Property Story 16 Jul 2013 | 02:51 am
It’s summer and time for a lighter blog than usual - and as my favourite book of 2013 so far has been about the property downturn, there is justification for this review of the splendid novel Fallen L...
Research: Another Agency Battleground 9 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
The announcement of a new two-person residential research team at Hamptons International is the latest evidence that resi data production is a busy marketplace. A decade ago there were relatively few...
Whatever Happened To... 17 Jun 2013 | 11:59 am
Last week’s flurry of activity about 3D floorplans (over five days I had four PRs trying to get me to write something about this innovation) reminded me of past ‘great ideas’ which were the subject of...
Last Week Was Good For (Good) PRs 9 Jun 2013 | 08:29 pm
Most PRs get it right most of the time - the ‘it’ in question being supplying what journalists want, when they want it. Without PRs, most journalists writing feature material like property (and the s...
Details, Details, Details... 3 Jun 2013 | 12:31 pm
It seems that property sales details - rather like property stories in most newspapers and online - are becoming shorter and more picture-based. The problem is, no one seems to have told vendors. Cen...
Dubai: Good Buy? Bad Buy? 19 May 2013 | 04:01 pm
It was a trip down memory lane to write this article in the Independent on Sunday about what has happened to those ‘emerging markets’ around the world which many of us spoke about so enthusiastically ...
UKIP Housing and Planning Policies - More A Rant Than A Strategy 3 May 2013 | 12:04 pm
UKIP’s flamboyant leadership style and the perception that it is a single-issue party have meant there has been a lack of serious media analysis of its policies - until now, perhaps. Recent parliamen...
Is This The Journalism Of The Future? 7 Apr 2013 | 05:29 pm
This blog isn’t usually an advertisement but, as I am away for most of the rest of April, here is my chance to promote three short eBooks which I have written, available for download to Kindles or any...
