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Those of you who know me will recall that as a Birmingham City fan I have had little interest in the Premier League since 2011 …

There’s never been an easy time for estate agents to make Investment decisions, but right now it’s probably as challenging as ever.

The market place seems even more unpredictable and patchy than ever. Then all this PropTech stuff doesn’t help either……..

We’ve seen all of the big agency chains announce their 2017 results in the past couple of weeks. All the talk of “digital strategy” made me look back at my blog twelve months ago to see if my predictions were coming true. Read on to see what I found……

The most exciting feature of the 2018 version of Callwell allows the staff of our customers to compete with each other to give the best customer service. I think it’s the coolest thing that we’ve done so far. But I was chatting to someone a few weeks ago who wasn’t so sure………

I think most of us would agree that for many years the customer has been increasingly at the centre of thinking for businesses, and that this is a good thing. If a business is trying to provide a product or service that does not meet a real need, or it meets a need badly, then the longer term prognosis is unlikely to be good.

Have you ever boiled an ocean in a rabbit hole? Either you have no idea of what I am talking about or perhaps your brain is flicking to memories of management jargon used to challenge the direction of a discussion …

Indeed it might do, but is that really the best way to get the message across? Most of us are irritated by the latest management speak, whilst at the same time guilty of using it from time to time and kicking ourselves when we hear the words coming from our own mouths.

It’s difficult for most people under the age of forty to imagine a world with out email. It’s impossible for most people under the age of thirty to think of life without social media. But what is it that makes the work place most unrecognisable for people over forty.

Twenty years ago in every estate agent branch across the Nation you would always see men wearing ties, never see tattoos and only very occasionally see beards. Now it’s all so different. Is that a change for the better or for the worse?