BANG THE DRUM
Welcome to A
fter last month’s Social Media extravaganza I’d hoped for a little break from extreme technology, but no, my next task was to write about QR Codes. Do you know what they are? No, I didn’t either, until a few weeks ago, but they are very interesting, even if a bit geeky, they can really help in your marketing and cost virtually nothing to use!
Read all about it in this issue. Our main feature though, in this issue, is Mortgages. Once so popular, so simple, so
You could be talking to Michael Portillo and a host of really interesting speakers on 27 September!’
attainable, the mortgage has almost become extinct since the cold wind of recession swept across the UK. Now there is a little improvement in the supply of loans, and a number of new products, particularly in the Buy to Let arena, coming onto the market. Our financial journalist, Andrea Kirkby, has dug deep in the files of the lenders to see what they have to offer, whether they might actually offer them to anyone and had some interesting conversations with the people that hold the purse strings. Finance is also one of the topics to be explored at the PROPERTYdrum National Conference on 27 September, if you haven’t booked your place yet, do so soon. It’s set to be a highly valuable event, with leading industry speakers offering the benefit of their experience to help you make 2012 a success. It’s also a unique opportunity to network with all the top people in property – and to chat to Michael Portillo, our keynote speaker, who will be talking, you may be
pleased to hear, about property and politics, not steam trains! And if that’s not enough to be going on with, take a look at our new section on New Build
Homes; the one area of the residential world that is actually seeing some action. There will be even more on this huge property sales sector in the September issue of PROPERTYdrum so if you have any views on New Build, now is the time to let me know! Email me today:
sheila@propertydrum.com
Sheila Manchester
Highly Commended Property Trade Magazine of the Year
PROPERTYdrum AUGUST 2011 3
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