Dear George, well, you didn’t have much ‘wriggle room’ and delivered a budget that I suppose is the only thing you could have done given that the deficit is circa £108billion but this is set to fall to a balanced budget in 2018 that is good news indeed.

Employment is down again and growth at 2.7% is the fastest in the western world  – a real result. Continue reading →

We can all notice the emergence of agent free on-line sites and even the two major on-line portals seem to be courting this notion – much to the chagrin of estate agents up and down the country.

Since time immemorial there has been a niche market of commission free non-estate agent entities. Continue reading →

MIPIM was MIPIM with the usual suspects milling around looking for partners to do deals with and, frankly, I’m sure a number of deals were done during the four days.

Boris Johnson (bless him) was waxing lyrical about the concordat – a word no one quite understands – but I suppose it’s meant to mean a self regulating gentleman’s understanding with agents and developers to endeavour to focus marketing in the UK before going to the wilds of the East in search of buyers. Continue reading →