7 Strategic Factors To Improve Telephone Quotes Conversion Success

In my previous article on this very important topic, I wrote about the major research survey into how firms nationwide deal with their telephone quotes calls. It highlighted a catalogue of missed business opportunities. In this article, I summarise the 7 key strategic issues that all firms should discuss and debate in their next departmental […]

Equity release contributing to potential downsizing reduction

As the use of equity release grew past £3.06 billion in 2017 with a further 25% increase in quarter one data to more than £870 million, many speculate that equity release could replace downsizing in the future. The quarter one statistics taken between January and March indicate that over 55s released £870 million in the […]

House prices remain lower than a decade ago in 25% of UK cities

House prices

With headline cities like Liverpool, Belfast and Aberdeen still lingering below the house prices of 2008, the effects of the economic crash are still clearly being felt a decade later. The recent report, carried out by Hometrack, indicates that a quarter of the UK’s major cities’ house prices are still lower than those of a […]

Smaller ‘Challenger Conveyancing firms’ boost annual transactions

The lower half of top 100 conveyancing firms, known as ‘challenger firms’, have seen the biggest increase in transactions rather than the larger established firm brands during the second quarter of 2018, according to Search Acumen report. In the second quarter, the report found that total conveyancing volumes for England and Wales grew 14% annually […]

Improving the ID Verification Process

In any high value business, fraud (or the potential for fraud) is a constant; the threat never goes away and in the property industry, despite an upping of the ante in terms of the fraud protection processes and systems firms have in place, this doesn’t stop criminals seeking out potential weak spots and looking to […]