The view from Notting Hill: Reasons to be cheerful
The sales industry is a constant cycle of fear and accomplishment where only the paranoid survive - but every now and then we should pause to reflect on the good bits, writes Giles Barrett...

Giles Barrett is a director at boutique west London estate agency Domus Nova.
Forget macro-economics – the key driver in the property market is much simpler…
Rather than politics, currency fluctuations or legislation changes, the market’s sustained performance is actually being underpinned by an innate desire for progress in our lives, writes Giles Barrett...
Leave it to the professionals: Why it’s time to stop self-diagnosing property values
A seller dead-set on the self-diagnosis of his property's value gets Giles Barrett asking whether we should still be Googling our symptoms...
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