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Specialist Property Sourcing in Demand
Much of our property sourcing over the past few years has been for a select number of investment companies but expanding your client base is always important even when you're busy. We have made some positive moves to do this over the past few months with noted success...
Growing Too Fast & No Structure
Around two years ago we found ourselves sourcing property for an investment fund who were committing to buy a lot of property yet they were small in structure and support and ultimately they fell apart through poor management and lack of infrastructure. We moved on...
Covid Chaos and Focus
The Covid-19 health crisis has effected us all in some way but I'm here to talk property and business. The March lockdown genuinely alarmed everyone and our property world came close to a grinding halt with estate agency offices closed, surveyors not working and...
Old Contacts & New Opportunities
With twenty three years experience in the property world it's easy to forget the people we once dealt with professionally and as the years roll by and business direction changes, the business you once did together can seem a distant memory and generally irrelevant to...
Majority of Homeowners Expect House Price Growth
The press continue to bemuse, confuse and frustrate me by their negative headline obsession. Whilst our focus is on the UK property market a local paper was criticised only last week for not being interested in positive reporting and only dwelling on negative...
Mortgage Lenders Must Embrace Change
Interesting to see that one of the lead stories on BBC News this morning is about the modular homes industry. This isn’t new news but it will undoubtedly promote its existence to the general public and remind many in the property industry of its benefits. The housing...
Let’s Portray the Private Landlord as the Devil…again!
The headline reads Short Notice Evictions Face Axe in Tenant Victory and the article continues to vilify the 'demonic' existence of the private landlord. Yet again the author and undoubtedly many of the articles readers fail to see that the private landlord is of...
The Slow Death of Estate Agency
With recently announced planned closures of countless corporate estate agents across the country and so many estate agents struggling or simply making a living I am still repeatedly amazed by the distinct lack of commercial awareness of the majority of high street...
Bastion Sponsors The Big Sleep Out
On a cold windy and wet night in February 2018 Bastion sponsored and took part in The Big Sleep Out with fellow Huddersfield supporters, staff, Club partners sponsors. From a fund raising point of view the event was a huge success and taking part was humbling. Wind...
Huddersfield 100 Charity Blues Ball
Joining a small team of just three to organise a sizable charity dinner is a challenge and some thought we were mad to even attempt it with our own busy business lives but we did it! James Beattie from See It Now Sports, Mark Young from John Walton (Machine Tools) Ltd...
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