Making an Ex of Excel You have to feel sorry for the engineers behind Microsoft Excel. Who knows how many months were spent in development hell, incorporating an incredible number of highly sophisticated statistical functions and trying to make the process of data analysis as straightforward as possible. And what do we all do with it? Pretty much anything we can think of that isn’t data analysis. More often than not, it simply becomes a notebook of tasks or a list of items –

2021 was a beacon of light to us all in a year of real darkness. There was a collective feeling that if we could we just get through 2020, everything would be OK. The problem is, 2021 is here, and we’ve found that really, it’s all just more of the same. Of course, the nation knew that there was never going to be some magical reset button that was pressed on midnight of New Year, but it helped to have a mantra of hope that circulated in the back of our minds. And on top of tha

‘Tis the season to step up your property management game. The ethos we push at Jackson Sims is the idea of recruiting team members who go above and beyond in their positions. And there can’t be any time in the year where it is more important and meaningful to go above and beyond for people. (For that matter, there can’t be many more years where it’s more important to go above and beyond, either…). So with that in mind, we’ve come up with six ways that property managers can br

The Impact of Covid on Property Trends Are you bored of Covid related articles yet? We certainly are. But there’s a real paradox when it comes to them; tired as we are of reading about Covid, we’ve all got an immense appetite for reading about it. And that’s hardly surprising: if there’s one thing we’re desperate for, it’s information, sense of certainty, an ability to plan based on concrete knowledge. Well, unfortunately, at Jackson Sims, we don’t exactly have a crystal ball

The Human Dimension When we explain to people that Jackson Sims are leaders in the field of property management recruitment, then it tends to be the ‘property’ element that sticks in the mind most. It has the ability to conjure up a slick, modern operation, dedicated to the mechanics of making stylish apartments and sleek office blocks run seamlessly. Certainly, there is an element of slick in what we do. We know property inside out; how it works, and what it needs to succeed