City of London Police reported that the number of reported frauds rose by 64% last year. They advocate changing its name from the gentlemanly "white collar crime" to "organised crime". They highlight mortgage fraud in the property market caused by deliberate over valuing of new developments requiring conspiracies of lawyers, Read More
It takes quite a lot to get me excited about marketing communications campaigns by the professions (I've seen way too many in my time) but I think Armstrong Davis - Chartered Financial Planners - are worthy of a mention. that I came across I noticed a link at the end Read More
Taking a random sample of recent press reports it seems that there is still no consensus about what is happening in the market: Savills, usually the darling of property performers, posted annual losses of £7.7m and cut its dividend. It reports a "very cautious" outlook for 2009. Sir John Ritblat Read More
Graham Norwood, with whom I co-wrote the book “Media relations in property” (EG Books) a couple of years ago has just had his latest book published. In the book, he sets out the signals that were appearing from 2005 and asks questions about why so few people spoke out as Read More
There were a number of speakers at yesterday’s Estates Gazette Property Marketing and PR Summit who supported the argument that those who continued to invest in marketing during a recession were most likely to make the most progress when the upturn arrives. The key points I took from each of Read More