Newspapers carried reports yesterday that Segro (formerly Slough Estates) had agreed to rescue its troubled rival - which had long been leading in the marketing stakes - Brixton Estates in a deal worth £107m. Whilst they both operate in the same market place (industrial property) they have rather different cultures. Read More
Interested to see the web site of London estate agents Brian Lack - a series of videos introducing the firm and its services, interviewing key partners, providing adverts of related advisers and showcasing key properties. But would digital immigrants (those who didn't grow up with digital technology) prefer the option 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