Interview with James Sherwood-Rogers of CoPSO
Founded in 2003, the Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) was set up by six key industry figures with a view to providing search companies with a professional voice. In this interview, Chairman James Sherwood-Rogers highlights the key challenges the search industry is up against at present, as well as predicting the impact which innovation […]
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