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10/06/2026

If I was 25 again, I would be seriously looking at this.
Recognised local brand.
80 years of goodwill.
Loyal customer base already in place.
Growing catering pipeline.
Rent of just over £6,000 a year.
Asking price: offers over £30,000.
Someone could build something really special here.
Tag someone who needs to see this.
Comment Grannys for full details.

06/06/2026

A retail unit sat empty for three years. Every time the landlord asked why, he got the same answer. It's the market.
It wasn't the market.
When I went to look, the place had everything going for it. High footfall, busy road, a sound unit. The problem was that nobody had ever marketed it. It had been sitting on Rightmove waiting for the phone to ring, and that isn't marketing. That's listing.
So we did the work. Professional photos. Video. Reels across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. We worked out who the right tenant actually was, then put the unit in front of them, including people who didn't yet know they were looking.
Then we ran a showcase viewing. Twenty people came through in one day. Five offers. The landlord picked one, and there's a tenant in there now.
Three years of "it's the market" undone in a few weeks of actually marketing the place.
If you've got a commercial property sitting empty and you're tired of being told it's just the market, let's have an honest conversation about what needs to change. Book a strategy call. Link in bio.

05/06/2026

Nine times out of ten, it isn't the market.
I've been selling and letting commercial property since 2000. In that time I've handled everything from a sandwich van on an industrial estate to national chains worth hundreds of millions.
And the same conversation keeps coming up.
An owner has a property sitting empty. Their agent has told them demand is soft, the market is slow, it just needs time.
What's actually happened is this: someone took a few photos on a phone, wrote two paragraphs, stuck it on Rightmove, and called it marketing.
Then when nothing happened, they blamed the market.
The market isn't the problem. It never was.
We built The Commercial Property Experts because the industry wasn't doing right by owners or agents. A model that takes marketing seriously. That targets the right people, in the right way, with the right message.
If your property has been empty for more than three months, I'd like to talk.
Link in bio.

03/06/2026

"The market" is blamed for a lot of commercial property instructions that fail to sell or let.

Sometimes that's true.

But more often, the real reasons are much closer to home.

We've just launched our brand-new website, packed with commercial property insights, resources and a free Property Diagnostic designed to help owners understand what's really holding an instruction back.

Answer 10 short questions and receive honest, commercially realistic feedback on your property's position, momentum and potential next steps.

Take a look, explore the new site, and see what the market might not be telling you.

📞 07572 980179
📧 [email protected]
🌐 thecommercialpropertyexperts.co.uk

29/05/2026

80 years of morning coffees, fresh sandwiches and familiar faces.
Granny's has been part of Rugby life for generations. Now it is looking for its next owner.
Asking price: offers over £30,000.
Annual turnover: £121,597.
Rent: just £6,050 a year.
The customer base is loyal. The equipment is modern. The opportunity is real.
Know someone who would be perfect for this? Tag them below.
Comment "Grannys" for full details.

22/05/2026

Not wanting to ruin anyone's bank holiday weekend but, if your property has been empty for six months or more...

You know the rent you're asking. You might know the rateable value.

But do you know what the vacancy is actually costing you, in lost income, business rates, and opportunity?

Most landlords don't. They have a vague sense it's expensive. They don't have a number.

Numbers change decisions.

I built the Vacancy Drag Calculator for exactly this moment. Put in three figures and it tells you the real cost of doing nothing.

It takes about thirty seconds. The number it gives you tends to stick around a lot longer than that.

Link in the comments.

06/05/2026

In Coventry & Warwicjshire 657 properties available. 413 sat there for 6 months or more. 167 leases signed in the same period.
The market is working. Your property just needs the right strategy.
If it has been sitting there, something is wrong. We find it and we fix it.
Link in bio.

04/05/2026

I've just got back from Skegness.

My son Miles plays for CTK, and this weekend they went on tour, six matches against teams from across the country. They won some, lost some, and drew one.

But what stayed with me wasn't the results.
Whether they were celebrating or regrouping, they did it together. When things went wrong, they picked each other up. When there were disagreements, and there were, they dealt with them and moved on. No sulking, no pointing fingers. Just a group of lads who understood that the team mattered more than any individual moment.

At The Commercial Property Experts, we build businesses the same way.

The agents within The Experts Group run their own operations. They're self-employed, they keep 70% of what they earn, and they make their own decisions.

But they're not out there on their own.

They have a network behind them. Support, systems, shared knowledge, and people who want them to succeed. When someone has a difficult instruction or a tricky deal, they don't have to figure it out alone.

That's the model. Individual freedom, collective strength.

Miles and his teammates reminded me this weekend why it works.

Proud dad moment. Proud of every one of them.

02/05/2026

Most landlords think an empty unit is just “a bit of lost rent”.
It isn’t.

It’s a compounding loss that quietly drains the value of the asset.

Here’s what one vacant unit actually costs:
• Lost rent every single month
• Business rates (often full liability)
• Insurance that doesn’t go down just because it’s empty
• Dilapidation risk increasing over time
• Security costs and depreciation
And the one nobody talks about:
Time.

Because the longer it sits empty, the harder it becomes to let.
It stops being “available” and starts being “avoided”.
I call this Vacancy Drag.
Not just vacancy.
Drag.
Because it pulls everything down with it.

I’ve seen units sit empty for 12–24 months where the landlord has effectively lost six figures without ever writing a cheque.
The frustrating part?

Most of the time, it isn’t a demand problem. It’s a strategy problem.

30/04/2026

What if you could run your own commercial agency…
without starting from scratch?
Most agents don’t go self-employed for one simple reason:
They don’t know where to begin.
Not because they can’t do the job.
They already are.
Winning instructions.
Managing clients.
Getting deals over the line.
The problem is everything around it:
Brand.
Marketing.
Systems.
Compliance.
Pipeline.
That’s the bit that stops people.
So they stay where they are…
Doing the hard work
And giving most of the fee away.
We’re working with commercial agents who want something different:
• More control over what they earn
• More flexibility in how they work
• The ability to build something under their own name
• Proper support behind the scenes so they can focus on deals
This isn’t about taking a blind leap.
It’s about recognising you’re already doing the job…
and deciding whether you’re being paid what it’s actually worth.
If that question has crossed your mind, even once,
it’s probably worth a conversation.

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