My World: June 2021…

This is part of a series of articles where our contributors describe how they think things will look a year from now.

When I was asked if I would contribute a piece to the Property Chronicle, I started thinking about how I would approach the request and share pearls of wisdom from my near fifty years in the residential property industry. Then I thought – No, b*llocks, no-one is interested in ancient history or wistful looks back at bygone eras when technology was a Roneo Gestetner printing machine and a key and lamp telephone system so I thought I would simply share with you some of my thoughts and diary entries as we live through lockdown.

For those of you that don’t know me from my Twitter account (@GrumpyOldEA) I am what it says on the profile – Grumpy, old and an estate agent. I have a long suffering wife, a particularly frisky personal assistant, Veronika, and a compliment of staff that I love and hate in equal measure depending on their performance. I was once a Partner in a well-known firm but was shafted by my fellow partners and now run my own business. I’m not a Luddite but believe in traditional customer focused values and have a strong dislike for the colour purple.