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Fwd: Help us tell politicians what business really wants

David Clark David Clark & Company 01353 665020 http://www.clarkhomes.co.uk Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Telegraph Business Club" < businessclubinfo@telegraph.co.uk > Date: 12 April 2010 17:01:04 GMT+01:00 To: <David> Subject: Help us tell politicians what business really wants Reply-To: "Telegraph Business Club" < businessclubinfo@telegraph.co.uk >   Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser To forward this email to a friend, click here .   The Telegraph Business Club is a trademark of the Telegraph Media...
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Google Street View

Received an alert from Expert Agent (our estate agency management software) to say that Google Street View is now 'live'. I spent a while today locating properties and 'fixing' the initial view. Unfortunately 100% of the area has not been photographed but a very good proportion which will give likely buyers the opportunity to view the surrounding area  before jumping in their cars to come and view. Downside is it may reduce viewings for some properties but at least it will save wasting time, petrol and energy on visits that were never going to turn into anything more than a 'social' exercise! http://bit.ly/cuBewY
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House Prices face Double Dip

This was the title of an article in The Independent on 24th  February 2010. Read it here : http://bit.ly/aqVQoM My response is below! House Prices Face Double Dip If 2009 saw a ‘boomlet’ then it passed me by and probably the rest of East Cambridgeshire too. I would accept that house prices in and around Ely stabilized and generally stopped falling - most likely because of supply not matching demand. This was also a feature of the late 80’s and early 90’s when if people could avoid selling at prices they didn’t like then they did just that! To get a true impression then we need to stop looking at the UK residential property market as just one countrywide market. It is a series of micro-markets all reacting differently to the overarching conditions of recession, (un)employment, mortgage availability, type of property available and the likely buyers. After all, the likely ‘punter’ for a riverside apartment overlooking the Thames in central London won’t be the same as th...
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Call to Arms - From the Guild of Professional Estate Agents

I received this in an e-mail newsletter from the Guild and felt I simply had to re-publish it here... A Call To Arms.... We know that the UK estate agency market is the most competitive in Western Europe, with the fees levied being only a fraction of those applicable in most developed countries (even when compared to the supposed paragon of the free market, the USA). We also exemplify the specialist skills involved in successfully selling a property, and help mitigate the significant risks involved to the buyer and vendor from acting without professional advice and guidance. Finally, if the rate of consumer dissatisfaction has fallen by half to 12% since the last report, then the service is clearly rapidly improving of its own accord (given the current absence of licensing and mandatory qualifications). The market statistics also speak volumes. Too many estate agents chasing too few transactions has meant that only a small minority are making healthy profits. With over 2,000 offices ...
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