Amongst other things, Gareth advises here to choose your agent wisely. Its just three more weeks...... yes, I know, England beating the team ranked 112th in the world does not mean that those of a patriotic disposition should be rushing to get "Football's coming home" tattooed on some part of their anatomy; but whether or not they need the extension on the ticket for the team bus in the short...
2018
Gareth Cheshire, Owner of Cheshire and Co, discusses your new home priorities. Regular followers of the blog will already know that I have strong feelings about Miss Minogue, Jeremy Corbyn, expanding waists, Diane Abbott, Russian ladies with big..hair, pointy shoes on men, suits with skinny trousers and surveys, to name a few. All for very differing reasons and occupying both ends of The Chesh's love/hate...
So the war of words has begun; no, not The Donald and Messrs Putin/Jong-Un/anyone else who has p@$#d him off in the past 24 hours, but Purplebricks (PB) and the recently formed Charter For Independent Estate and Lettings Agents (CIELA). What started the death stare posturing and verbiage was PB releasing the results of a whopping 1003 people (why that specific number, I have no idea) surveyed, that...
Well that very much depends upon to whom you are referring. Let us start with the movers and shakers of the property world, namely Purplebricks. Ah yes, the Bruce brothers, who the majority of those involved in the business of trying to make money from selling houses, loathe, because, er, they have made an awful lot of money from (sort of) selling houses. For the record, I doff my cap (I am sporting a...
While it was interesting to read that Countrywide-one of the industry big hitters-had plunged deeply into the red last year resulting in far-reaching cuts countrywide (no pun intended); it was something else that drew my attention. The announcement hidden among the "review of their footprint across the UK", don't you just love corporate-speak? (translated here as 'we're $%^*&*') was that it has...
Many years ago, when I had still had hair (on my head), the world did not grind to a total halt because the 'snowflake' generation cannot cope with er, snowflakes and Jezza and Max were still young fascists-waiting-to overthrow-the Establishment/comedy value operatives for the Eastern Bloc, there were only 2 TV stations: BBC 1 and whatever franchise of ITV your TV transmitter could reach. In those days if...
An announcement last weekend from Secretary of State for Housing, Sajid Javid that the Government is putting its weight behind a Private Members Bill (PMB) that aims to hand more power to tenants has increased the chance of the said bill becoming law. The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards ) Bill-try saying that after three bacardis-seeks to amend the Landlord and...
Or Agent Not-at-all, if technology continues its onward march to replace 100% real human beings with 100% manufactured but frighteningly efficient robots. Zenplace Property Management, an American firm said to be backed by many of the same investors that supported the likes of Google, Facebook and Paypal (to say that they have a decent record would be something of an understatement), claim to already be...
Following last week's blog on property price predictions including those of the pulchritudinous Sarah Beeney and her online agency Tepilo, we were told this week that the aforementioned agency is to change its fee structure not that it is under revised ownership. Revised ownership? They kept that one well hidden under a bushel (no cheap jokes please). What was not announced was whether the revised fees...
