The new normal

TM Group brings property professionals – including residential conveyancers – together to consider the opportunities and challenges being faced by the industry, as it finds its feet in the wake of the pandemic.

|TM Group|

It’s increasingly clear that 2021 posed just as many challenges as the immediate outbreak of Covid-19 back in 2020 – just different ones. That’s why we polled the industry again to find out what’s really been happening behind the scenes of yet another unprecedented year.

Bringing together the voices of nearly 800 property professionals, including residential conveyancers, commercial real estate professionals, estate agents, lenders, surveyors, developers, and more, ‘The New Normal’ research set out to capture how those working on the frontline of the property transaction really feel the industry is adapting to ‘The New Normal’.

The results were intriguing, as we uncovered…

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