North East Property Forum & Policiticians Meet

The North East Property Forum and POLITICIANS met to discuss the property market. Tim Haggie of Latimer Hinks Solicitors chaired the meeting.

The politicians faced tough questions about their plans to help boost the housing market.

What is the state of the North East Property Market?

The North East Property Forum meet again to discuss the state of the commercial, agriicultural and residential property market.

Check out what they are saying about unfair banks charges, the difficulty in closing deals and raising the finance for those deals.

North East Property Forum, February 2010

The North East Property Forum Meet Again!

Residential and commercial professionals met to discuss the state of the regional property market. Tim Haggie, Managing Partner at Latimer Hinks chaired the meeting and appeared in the video/podcast - an alternative method of promoting Latimer Hinks.

I attended one of the previous meeting and was surprised at how well the professionals from competing organisations communicated - there is, after all, strength in numbers!

Promotion Through North East Property Forum Video/Podcast

I had a trip out of the office yesterday. Tim Haggie, managing partner at Latimer Hinks was once again chairing the North East Property Forum and I was invited along by our PR company, Recognition to see how the meeting is filmed and documented.

I arrived in time for a few nibbles before the meeting - this also gave me the opportunity for a little networking. Everyone was relaxed, competitors were chatting - it all seemed very much unlike "work"!

I also believe I managed to avoid "being captured" by the Northern Echo photographer (without being too obvious).

Very quickly it was time to sit down and "get down to business". You can see the full video here Property Forum Video September. I've managed to upload it to YouTube, hopefully people will be interested enough to "rate" the video - any comments will be appreciated.

Here is the Northern Echo press story - Region's House Sales Surge by 80%

Legal 500 - the bible of the legal business recommends Latimer Hinks

The Legal 500 is the most widely used legal directory in the UK and is considered to be "the bible of the legal business". The Legal 500 ranks law firms in terms of their expertise and performance.

Latimer Hinks has once again achieved recommendation - and this time more of our Partners are recognised! Good work!

Agriculture & Estates
Clients praise Latimer Hinks’ ‘vast knowledge of agricultural law and understanding of matters influencing the market‘. Anne Elliott is a ‘noted expert in the field of landlord and tenant‘, and Tim Haggie is recommended for estate management, strategy and planning. Instructions include advising farmers in negotiation with Broadview Energy over a wind farm development (which also involved Neil Stevenson) in North Yorkshire.

Personal Tax, Trusts & Probate
Anne Elliott at Latimer Hinks is noted for her expertise in inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning.

Real Estate
Mark Clayton leads a ‘very proficient‘ team at Latimer Hinks that had a busy year advising on numerous retail properties.

Corporate & Commercial
Nick Poole heads the Latimer Hinks team, which acted on a multimillion-pound refinancing of a group of hotels. Clients acknowledge the practice as ‘one of the best in the local market‘.

Commercial Litigation
Latimer Hinks is noted for its insolvency, debt recovery and bankruptcy practice. Mark Gardner is recommended.

Legal 500 Recommendations 2007

Legal 500 Recommendations 2008

North East Property Forum meet in June

Property Forum Meeting, June 2009 - The Property Forum (made up of solicitors, surveyors bankers and estate agents) met again and discussed first-time buyers’ needs as well as other property issues. The Northern Echo also reported on the meeting.


A couple of points were picked up:

Houses are selling as long as they are competitively priced. I have a particular interest in this point as my property is up for sale with what I hope is a "competitive price!"

• There is an increase of interest from first time buyers especially with shared equity schemes


• Lenders have noticed an increase in demand for mortgages

Cick on the link to view the podcast - Property Forum Meeting

Property Forum Meets Again to Discuss Effects of Alistair Darling's Budget on the Property Market

A second get together of the North East Property Forum with Tim Haggie, once again chairing met yesterday. Here are links to videos of both of the meetings.

I've placed them videos YouTube in the hope of generating traffic to Latimer Hinks website and to place Tim Haggie as an authority for property advice.

If anyone has advice as to the best way of "pushing" these videos through Web2 and social media, please let me know.

Property Forum Meeting 29th March 2009

Original Property Forum Meeting

Promotion Expertise Through Video

Despite the ongoing recession, life at Latimer Hinks for me is particularly busy. As well as the ongoing promotion of Latimer Hinks we are experimenting with a new media for us - video.
As more individuals/businesses acquire fast broadband connections, video has become a powerful marketing tool, 24/7. We thought we'd "have a go"!


Video
1) Tim Haggie, managing partner chaired a meeting to discuss the property market. See my previous post which includes a link to the property video.

The aim of the discussion video is to show Tim as an expert in his field - Commercial Property and to keep his "finger on the pulse" of what is going on with the property market in our region.
The video has been posted to youtube and various other sites as well as being sent to Clients/referrers that may have an interest in the discussion. The "get together" also provided the opportunity for leading surveyors and estate agents to perhaps build on their business relationships.

2) Neil Stevenson, partner at Latimer Hinks met with John Littlefair (wind farm owner) to discuss how lucrative wind farms can be and how Latimer Hinks can help. Neil is an expert in agricultural law, with particular interest in alternative energy. Again, we hope the video - the Answer is Blowing in the Wind will show Neil as an expert in a niche area.

As you probably know, YouTube monitors how many times the video has been viewed. This will eventually be of great interest and only time will tell if we pick up any business through video promotion.

I am on the look out for video hosting sites that specialise in a particular area. For example Alternative Energy. I can then post to sites with members that have a relevant interest.

All of this posting takes an awful lot of time - i'm looking for quicker ways. I do bookmark with sites such as Stumble, Delicious, Furl, Digg etc and i do see the success through google analytics - so, it's worth it!

What is the state of the North East property market?

Well, Latimer Hinks decided to find out by bringing together leading estate agents, surveyors and solicitors to discuss the state of the property market.

The forum - a new addition to the Latimer Hinks marketing portfolio will meet on the last Wednesday of every month.

Tim Haggie, Managing Partner at Latimer Hinks chaired the meeting and we heard how the experts believe buyer confidence is returning.

For the full article visit the Northern Echo - Property Industry Hails Foundation for Recovery

And to watch a video of the meeting - Leading Estate Agents Meet at north East Property Forum