Property Match (UK) blog:

This is about changing the way prices are negotiated on house sales and purchases, in order to reduce cyclical market stagnation.
Having researched the difficulties in housing market transactions taking place over successive booms, I’ve come up with a better way for agents to handle offers received from prospective purchasers. In my opinion, it should [...]

The answer has to be Price, Price, Price. Quoting the correct price when marketing a house, is the key. This cannot be happening – but why?
Possibly the worst position estate agents could ever find themselves in, is having to do accurate house valuations instantly – on the hoof, having just viewed the house [...]

House asking prices are up, down, all over the place, and way out of kilter with earnings, across the UK, because estate agents aren’t being ‘clean’ about what achievable prices are. Instead they simply tend to force them further upwards, in an effort to continue to fill their windows; while the market collapses.
We’ve had [...]

Today is a poignant day to publish a statement about remembering the ills of the past and also to acknowledge the continual need for change for the better, in our modern society.
Unlike James Murdoch, Chairman of News International and the hacking scandal perhaps, we are actively wishing to rid the world of another scourge of [...]

So, what could estate agents do to restore activity in the housing market?
To my mind, first of all, unless houses are priced within the valuation range, and well-presented, why would they ever sell – except by some kind of fluke!
For my money, it’s the estate agent’s ‘job’ to make sure that each house they are [...]

We’re looking for an edge, to offer a better service, than that currently provided by estate agents. That is why we have developed this web site.
Our stance is to embrace ‘valuation techniques’ to a greater extent than estate agents do and thus help people to price houses more accurately in the marketplace.
The purpose of [...]

Average asking prices are currently £231,543 whereas average sold prices are £164,000 (recent Land Registry figures). What does this say about current house-marketing methods by estate agents??? Something urgently needs to be done to correct this appalling mismatch, which is crippling the housing market by driving buyers away, just when they are [...]

Those who say that the current way in which queues of people are organised prior to embarking passenger planes is just fine are wrong!
A prominent mathematician recently came up with a much improved order, for passengers to embark aeroplanes; thus saving valuable time for everyone in the process. Will anyone actually take him up [...]