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It wasn’t that long ago that the My Home Move family got a little bit bigger, when we announced that we’d acquired Advantage Property Lawyers (APL). There’s been a lot…

Musing from a twitter follower

Thu 5 Oct 2017

It’s not often that I think about the rental market, as let’s be honest I’m in the business of assisting buying or selling houses. However there was a statistic on…

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Get the grit

Tue 3 Oct 2017

We’re all in business to be successful. No one walks through life with the ambition to fail. A successful business has a business plan, strategy, aims, goals and targets. It…

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Fortune favours the brave

Wed 27 Sep 2017

I guess we have all heard the Latin proverb that “fortune favours the brave” or to quote Del Boy, “he who dares, Rodney, he who dares”. Both of these could…

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Shared Ownership

Thu 21 Sep 2017

Shared ownership – on paper this sounds like a good idea, but for some reason it’s not working, and I’ve been trying to figure out why. Our latest research has…

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Be proud

Wed 20 Sep 2017

Many of you will know that I love to travel. I like to think I’ve made a good start on seeing the world’s most beautiful places and experiencing those ‘once…

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I’m sorry Arnie, I don’t care

Thu 14 Sep 2017

Has anyone else seen the PPI advert with Arnie’s head? It’s weird, right? And not just because it’s featuring a robotic Schwarzenegger chasing a man around a late night supermarket…

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More haste, less speed

Thu 7 Sep 2017

When I first started working in the industry, the standard time between exchange and completion was 28 days, basically a month. Every piece of communication was conducted by letter, typed…

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Please join the dots Minister

Tue 5 Sep 2017

As the Parliament prepares to get back into full swing, there are a couple of areas of consideration for Housing Minister Alok Sharma. The most talked about topics in the…

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I would bike 500 miles…

Thu 31 Aug 2017

And I would bike 500 more. Or at least that’s the plan! From Sunday 3rd September, I’ll be taking on one of Britain’s toughest challenges and cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats in 12 days – all in the name of charity. Over the years, I’ve been known at My Home Move for my (sometimes crazy) fundraising challenges.

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Confidence…

Wed 23 Aug 2017

Ten years’ ago I wasn’t working for My Home Move, in fact I was half way through my tenure as CEO for a business loans provider located in Manchester.  It was 2007 and life was good, and then it wasn’t. It didn’t matter which business you were in or where in the country you lived, 2007 and life was, and then it wasn’t.

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