Rob Clifford is chief executive of Stonebridge
Certainly, if Don McLean were writing ‘American Pie’ in February 2021 he would have got it right in terms of the weather – the last few, often snow-dominated weeks and the very low temperatures have summed up a period in our lives, which we might now all be wishing spring puts an end to.
For advisers, like the weather, I suspect this has been a changeable period to live and work through.
These are unique times – stamp duty holidays are not the norm, and neither has been the situation where we’ve experienced record levels of transactions when the vast majority of practitioners within the mortgage and housing markets are working from home.