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About Ed Mead

About Ed Mead

Ed Mead has worked in the central London estate agency market for almost forty years and has acquired a reputation for saying it as it is. He's contributed over many years as The Sunday Times Property Expert and as the Agent Provocateur in The Telegraph amongst many others as well as fronting two BBC TV series. He left agency in September 2016 to start Viewber, the world's first outsourced property viewing service harnessing the power of the sharing economy to make viewings available 24/7 for agents and landlords via their own dashboard. He is still a regular press contributor with a regular live Q&A slot on LBC.

Golden Oldie

How it was

How it was

Originally published August 2017. About 30 years ago I remember my stepfather, a well-known man of considerable standing, surprising me by telling me I was in a ‘gentleman’s...

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Golden Oldie

How it was

How it was

With almost 40 years’ experience in the industry, Ed Mead looks at what estate agents were like ‘back in the day’.

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The Agent

What goes up can come down

What goes up can come down

A new generation now realised that what goes up can come down. 1988’s falls took until 1998 in London property to fully recover. Lessons learned in London over that period...

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