The Home Stretch The Guild of Property Professionals

With series three of The Home Stretch Podcast coming to an end today, Iain McKenzie and Holly Hibbett look back on the past 30 episodes and discuss their key takeaways from each of their esteemed guests. Which was your favourite guest or topic in this series?



Join Iain and Holly for series four in late summer 2024!

This week, Iain McKenzie is joined by Wendy Peterman, Managing Director of Petermans Estate Agents on The Home Stretch podcast to discuss what it has been like to be in estate agency over the past five years, mental health and Wendy’s experience as a female leader in the sector.  

On this month's tech-focussed episode, Heather Staff, Co-Founder of Street Group, joins host Ben Sellers to discuss some of the technological advancements Street Group have integrated into their platforms to the benefit of businesses and consumers.

Having begun his career in estate agency over 30 years ago, Stephen Brown has become a respected name in the industry, providing training and consultancy to property professionals. Not only is he a knowledgeable agent, he is also a huge advocate for supporting charitable causes, including his Computers for Schools project and more recently, Markers for Mindfulness. Listen to this episode to understand Stephen's motivations as well as gain some helpful tips on negotiation.

With parts B and C of the Disclosure of Material Information regulation coming into effect late last year for sales and lettings agents across the UK, we caught up with Guy Welfare from National Trading Standards for some clarity on what this means moving forward. Iain McKenzie asks Guy questions such as, 'how should agents communicate these changes to buyers and sellers?' 'How are the portals preparing?' 'What is classed as material information?' Listen now to find out all this and more.

Almost 15 years ago Erica and Lewis Tandy were considering moving home to be near good local schools, in the process they discovered a gap in what estate agents could offer buyers. They began developing something that showed schools on a map, with information at a glance about their Ofsted report ratings and exam results. Today, Locrating is much more than just a map as Ben Sellers discovers...