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The department for communities & Local Government have recently sent out yet more “guidance” on the changes to the EPC regulations. This seems to have caused even more confusion within the industry. To clarify a couple of issues, we contacted Phil Beschizza of the government department in order to clarify a few of our queries; [...]
It has been just over 6 months since we launched our Uservoice Customer Ideas Forum. For those of you that haven’t seen it yet, it’s a way for dezrez customers to put ideas forward for development and then have other estate agents vote on it. The idea being that you help build our development pipeline [...]
My colleague, Matt Davies, wrote a very interesting blog on using Twitter and Facebook last year (link to the blog HERE), which got me thinking on how specific a company could get with just how reactive they are to Social Media, in particularly, Twitter. It got me wondering about how our customers are using Twitter. [...]
Have you ever wondered what some of the team at dezrez you speak with on a daily basis actually look like?! Maybe you’ve always wanted to know a little more about Darren Michael in the branding team, feel that little bit closer to Laura Liddell in the Legal Department or just wanted a plain old [...]
A while ago the Post Office produced a Home buyers report which looks at external factors that are most likely to make people pay a premium for a property. Unsurprisingly, Living near a beach is the attraction purchasers are willing to fork out the most for at an extra £20,448. No I like a beach but [...]
It’s just over a year now since Home Information Packs were scrapped and I wonder if any agents are missing them or rather missing the revenue stream they may have brought in? The reason is, we run our own conveyancing department here at dezrez in the form of Dezrezlegal. The current nature of the market [...]
Having been involved in the Estate Agent Industry in one way or another for several years now it has been interesting to see just how often negotiators and valuers move between agencies, very often rival companies. It’s clearly nothing new for a successful person in any industry to get “head hunted” for their success in [...]
I recently took a trip to visit my grandparents who live in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae, a small island off the West Coast of Scotland. Whilst out exploring I came across what is claimed to be the UK’s Narrowest House. The unique ‘design’ of this property surely only adds to the value? What do [...]
The Co-operative bank has carried out a survey to find out the 10 most distrusted professions in the UK. Why are you telling us this I here you cry? Well I’m sorry to say that Estate Agents placed 5th in the list! It’s old news that Estate Agents are viewed by some as untrustworthy and I [...]
So many estate agents now know the importance that technology plays in their day to day lives, from the basics such as having a website to using social networking to advertise their business. So of course, they purchase the most up to date software to run their Agency. However ask the same ‘techno savvy’ estate [...]
