Ed Talks - UK Property Podcast

Thinking about starting a career in the property industry or know someone who is? Would REAL insight into Estate Agency help? Or might you just like to know a bit more, have a refresh, learn some new tips and tricks from a long term, successful player. We've started a new series with Viewber Co-Founder Ed Mead - it could be time to reeeeally find out what Ed's journey has been like. With...

Usual Ed Talks form is to chat with someone industry based – different this time as Ed talks to Iain, a Viewber based in the Gloucester area.  The perfect chance to dive a little deeper into what being a Viewber is really like, the sort of people who are carrying out various property appointments on behalf of our clients and how these appointments happen – what better way than to bring a REAL View...

This time, it's Ed's turn to be in the hot seat and we really wanted to share this with you. Viewber co-founder, Ed Mead was invited onto David Sandeman’s new series – ‘Dialogue with David’ David is head of the Essential Information Group and has been watching us grow the business at Viewber since 2016  David IS Mr Auctions and is so full of knowledge.  This is a relaxed and honest chat...

Longevity works? Ed talks to London based Ludlow Thompson MD, Alexander Rawlinson in this Lockdown edition episode. Alex has been part of the company for a long, long time (unusual these days) and is partly why Ed wanted to talk to him. Alex reveals that typically, Ludlow Thompson mainly deal with more lettings properties than sales, but Covid has levelled that up. Ed: “Why are you experiencing mo...

Instead of pointing out deficiencies, Ed Mead, as an ex estate agent and now Proptech Founder at Viewber, started a discussion recently looking for solutions to speeding up the home buying and selling process. Peter Ambrose, a principle at The Partnership - a team of property solicitors - has joined that discussion so have a look at their video session to see what they think! Watch the chat here:...

This week Viewber co-founder, Ed Mead caught up with CEO of Prospect Engine , Ishmael Herrera-Lee . Prospect Engine is a clever lead management outsourcing outfit. As Ishmael describes his company, it’s a white labelled outsourced prospecting firm, working predominately through historic data i.e. previous appraisals, landlords, listings, withdrawn stock, applicants with properties to sell on the m...

Another positive collaboration that’s come from Viewber co-founder Ed’s lockdown… Rupert Bates has spent his career in journalism with a property background including twenty years at The Telegraph covering property and sport. He's now editorial director and owner of industry bible Show House Magazine and B2C portal Whathouse.com . Anyone familiar with his Social Media feeds will understand hi...

As the world came to a Covid halt, Viewber co-founder Ed turned lockdown around and used it to positively listen to a variety of industry experts. If you don’t know Richard Rawlings , founder of Estate Agency Insight already, he is an award-winning estate agency trainer and sought-after coach and always at top-industry gatherings. The reason Richard is here is because Ed was trouble shooting with...

Welcome back to ‘#EdTalks’ the property podcast! Ed has invited an old friend into the recording booth this time (a familiar face to a lot of you), Phil Spencer. In this open and honest episode, Phil talks more about his journey, starting work as an estate agent at 23 and learning the hard way, especially when recession hit the property market! He has developed quite the career for himself in the...

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) used to be a dirty word in Ed's day, but are they now a passport to better yields. Do you worry about keeping up with lettings legislation in general and should you be actively thinking of turning your existing rental into one for a better return? Do you even know if that rental you own/manage even IS an HMO and requires licensing?! With over 300 authoritie...

Welcome back to Ed Talks, the property podcast. In this episode Ed talks to Vice President of sales at OneDome, Tim Price, also in charge of business development and partnerships. If you are an Estate Agent you have probably already heard of OneDome but you might not necessarily know what they do. Tim describes OneDome as ‘the gear box’ that connects consumers, buyers and sellers, estate agents an...

Everyone coming on the #EdTalks podcast series has something to say, they're also increasingly listened to as our figures show. This month, however, Ed's guest is not only Chairman of one of the UK's biggest agency groups, but is also MP for Thirsk and Malton.  Kevin Hollinrake MP talks to Ed about Affordable Housing, Stamp Duty, Regulation vs beefed up Redress, Hunters and much muc...

Ed tries to bring guests onto the property podcast who have good ideas for the future, but also like to try and open the door to some people that you may have heard about and may not know much about. So, on this latest episode of Ed Talks, he has invited two guests – one with a healthy and longstanding auction background, the other with an eye on using tech from auctions to improve private treaty...

Rajeev is someone Ed asked for advice, in the early days he said to Ed, “don’t try and do too many things well, just do one or two things well.” Fixflo is a system to help people deal with maintenance and repairs in properties… and helps tenants just as much as Landlords. As a tenant and landlord, Raj saw pain in the property repairs and maintenance process and that it was broken. Lots of you will...

“What we like to do is get out there and meet landlords face-to-face. Property is a people’s business.” – Tom Tennant, Chief Executive of successful family-run, Somerset Estates Residential Buy to Let REIT. In this podcast episode, Ed invites Tom back into the recording studio to follow up on some important topics that they touched on in their previous episode.  Tom is someone who has been at the...

'Is it the people coming into the agency that are changing it, or the other way round?' is this episode of Ed Talk's hot topic! In this episode: Ed's guest Josh Rayner began his recruitment career at the young age of 17 and really hustled and worked his way to the top. Having dabbled in estate agency for a brief period, then a large recruitment agency, he left and began buildin...

In this episode, Ed talks to someone he's been wanting to chat to for a very long time... Iain White! Iain has huge experience in the estate agency field, and describes himself as a 'thoroughbred estate agent', starting his career as an estate agent in 1987. From working in the entrepreneurial side of estate agency, building up a business with Romans, to the more corporate side and...

In this podcast episode, Ed talks to Matt Gilpin CEO and founder of one of the internet's most transparent and comprehensive property data platform, Sprift. Matt has been investing and developing properties for 20 years, since the late 90's. Over that period he has transacted many properties but it got to the point where he felt frustrated by the slow services he was provided. Matt took...

Ed talks to a very special guest and someone that is he has known throughout his property career, James Evans - CEO of Douglas & Gordon. In this episode, James shares some very knowledgeable advice on business mindset from his own experiences. Good, solid branding is a key part of James's advice for success and talks about how a great company needs to be trusted and liked. Discussing Doug...

Welcome back to Ed’s Property Podcast! In this episode, we are joined by Richard Blanco – A successful Landlord himself with properties/shops across 6 London boroughs, and also the London representative for the National Landlord Association (NLA) He began his career in Theatre and Dance, set up and ran an agency, became an arts consultant and also studied an MA in Theatre – Meanwhile, with all of...

In this episode, Ed is joined by Bob Scarff. Together they have a vast history when it comes to working as Estate Agents. Bob went straight from school into the Estate Agency world and Ed wants to delve a little deeper, learning more about Bob and his path to success, and of course his thoughts on Corporate High Street Agents.

Ed invites hugely successful James Dearsley into the recording booth this time to find out about his great knowledge and passion for all things PropTech and technology in the property world, and also about his new business!

Property Expert Ed sits down with Vanessa Warwick who is an Ex-MTV presenter, now professional landlord, property consultant/speaker and founder of hugely successful 'Property Tribes' to discuss her story of investing into property, how she has made a booming business out of it and some great advice to landlords and investors.

Property Expert Ed sits down with Henry Pryor and Tom Tennant to discuss the key issues impacting the property lettings and rental market with detailed insight and opinion.