Thought for the Day 8

Dedicated to all those currently furloughed. Economic Outlook. I’ve just heard from the Oracle – and it’s good news. Roger Martin-Fagg, a leading behavioural economist and Property Academy speaker has just shared his latest forecast for the economy. We will publish it in full shortly but I just wanted to share this chart straight away. […]

Thought for the Day 7

Dedicated to Captain Tom Moore’s 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS. You can find out more here. Cut the mooring lines. Earlier today, a question was posed on a webinar as to whether the High Street is now dead. Several people suggested it was dying prior to the lockdown whilst others felt there were still […]

Thought for the Day 6

Dedicated to Suzana Mavity of Acaboom for all she’s done to raise money for “Do it for Dom” in support of Huntington’s Disease Association. Inventorpreneur Thomas Edison is perhaps best known as the inventor of the modern day lightbulb. It’s written that his first 10,000 attempts failed indeed he’s alleged to have said: “I have […]

Thought for the Day 5

Dedicated to Louise Jefferies of SDL for overcoming an horrendous accident and returning to work with a positivity that radiates despite her impaired condition. S.U.M.O.* (as Property Academy speaker Paul McGee would say) When she was 32, Kris Carr was diagnosed with a rare and incurable stage IV cancer in her liver and lungs. That […]

Thought for the Day 4

Dedicated to Graham Norwood and Ros Renshaw for bringing us the industry news every day. Ros is recuperating after major surgery following a serious fall – everyone at Property Academy sends our best wishes for a full recovery. Kindness triumphs I’m grateful to Mark Crampton-Smith (of College & County estate agents) for sending me this […]

Thought for the Day 3

Dedicated to Yvonne and Vikki for all they do for Agents Giving charity If at first you don’t succeed Stephen King’s first published novel, “Carrie” came close to being scrapped. After 30 rejections from different publishers for his first three novels, King threw the initial manuscript into the bin stating that he wasn’t good enough […]

Thought for the Day 2

Dedicated to Michael Utchanah (of Robinson, Michael & Jackson) who is in hospital suffering considerably from Covid 19. “Please get well soon Mike” from all your friends at Property Academy. The more you fail, the more you succeed Bill Gates’ first business failed. That’s right, one of the richest people in the world fell at […]

Thought for the Day 1

Poley, Poley Property Academy speaker, expert storyteller and BBC journalist, Steve Rawling joined us on a webinar this week and amongst many excellent tips and advice he said one thing that had a profound impact: “You can’t fall out of a hole. You have to climb.” This is so true. We fall into problem situations, we […]

Economic Outlook

Dedicated to all those currently furloughed. Economic Outlook. I’ve just heard from the Oracle – and it’s good news. Roger Martin-Fagg, a leading behavioural economist and Property Academy speaker has just shared his latest forecast for the economy. We will publish it in full shortly but I just wanted to share this chart straight away. […]

Cut the mooring lines.

Dedicated to Captain Tom Moore’s 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS. You can find out more here. Cut the mooring lines. Earlier today, a question was posed on a webinar as to whether the High Street is now dead. Several people suggested it was dying prior to the lockdown whilst others felt there were still […]