Gregg Kantor
Seven seconds to sell your home
In the third of my series of guest blogs, I was interested to hear from Gregg Kantor, co-founder of Flyp about the importance of first...
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Simon Deen
- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
Personal branding, social media & estate agency
Lawyer. Accountant. Architect. We understand what these words mean, or more importantly, what someone had to do in order to gain that...
Simon Deen
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
Market update - February 2021
In my last market update I was optimistic - mostly about the improving weather and the prospect of my kids returning to school...
Simon Deen
- Feb 26, 2021
- 5 min
Autonomy, reputation and building a new estate agency brand
This week I had the opportunity to speak to Prime Resi, the leading online journal of luxury property, as part of their New Business Real...
Simon Deen
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
The 15 minute city
I still find it incredible how much the world has changed over the past 12 months. Yet to look at it now, how much of that change seems....
Will Castle
- Feb 12, 2021
- 3 min
Will Castle on mental health & the real estate industry
If you have ever worked in a sales environment, you might appreciate that historically skills like empathy, compassion and kindness...
Simon Deen
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Knowledge Vs Belief
You’ve made a decision to sell your home. Now you have two questions which need answering: How much is my property worth? Who’s going to...
Simon Deen
- Jan 29, 2021
- 3 min
Market update - January 2021
It’s nearly Spring (as I write this it’s freezing cold and pouring with rain). The kids will be back at school soon...
Simon Deen
- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
The continuing evolution of London real estate
I miss London.
I miss the people, the buzz, the places, the architecture, the diversity and everything else which makes it such a great
Simon Deen
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
Lessons from the past 12 months
I was thinking this week about how much has changed in the last 12 months on both a personal and global level. Unless you’re old enough to
Simon Deen
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Comparison
In Estate Agency, we are often caught up in comparisons. Towards the end of 2020 I saw countless posts on social media about the amount of d
Simon Deen
- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
Being right
“To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true. If you are too proud of wh
Simon Deen
- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
The future of real estate agency
You don’t have to look very hard these days to find people willing to talk about the future of Residential Real Estate Agency.
The fact tha
Jazmin Atkins
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
Jazmin Atkins on diversity and inclusion in the real estate sector
Diversity in the property industry is an ongoing topic of conversation that needs to be addressed. This issue has remained a quiet and somew
Simon Deen
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
We can be heroes
I am not a leader. I have no employees, and very few followers. Nor am I an entrepreneur, not by my definition anyway. If I had to catego
Simon Deen
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Home, luxuries and necessities
The onset of the second nationwide ‘lockdown’ in the UK this week has made me think about home, and more specifically, what we have come to
Simon Deen
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Seeking first to understand
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been re-reading Steven Covey’s 1989 classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. What’s really stru
Simon Deen
- Oct 23, 2020
- 2 min
Thinking about thinking
With due deference to Greg McKeown, who knows a lot more about these things than I do, I’m nevertheless going to go ahead and replace “break
Simon Deen
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
Values, abilities and skills
A discussion this week over coffee with an old friend (himself a commercial real estate agent) reminded me of the above quote, which was tak
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