Editorial policy

Everything below describes how The Property Decision actually operates day to day — commissioning, checking, correcting, and the line between editorial and commercial.

Independence

No advertiser, sponsor or commercial partner has any influence over what we publish. Advertising is sold and served separately from the newsroom; commercial staff do not commission, review or approve articles, and writers are not told which advertisers are running on the site.

Nothing here can be bought. We decline paid posts and link insertions as a matter of routine, and any commercially-supplied material we did run would be labelled as such before the first paragraph.

How we choose what to cover

We commission from the writers first and the calendar second. The bar is whether a piece tells a reader something they could not easily work out for themselves.

Accuracy and sourcing

• Every factual claim is checked against the original source, not against another article repeating it.
• Where the evidence is genuinely mixed, we report it as mixed and explain what the disagreement is about.
• Analysis and interpretation are clearly separated from established fact.
• Nothing here is personalised advice, and we say explicitly when a question needs a qualified professional.

Use of AI tools

We are open about this: articles on this site are drafted with the assistance of AI tools and are then edited and checked before publication. The named writer on a piece is the person responsible for it — for the commission, for the edit and for any correction that follows.

We do not use AI to fabricate quotes, sources, statistics or people. Where a figure or a claim appears, it is checked before publication, and where we cannot verify something we leave it out or say that it is uncertain.

Every illustration on The Property Decision is original and produced in-house. We do not use third-party stock photography, so nothing on this site is licensed from, or shared with, anyone else.

Corrections

If we publish something inaccurate we fix it. Substantive corrections are noted on the article itself with the date; typographical fixes are made silently. Nothing is quietly deleted to make a mistake disappear.

To report an error, write to corrections@thepropertydecision.com or use the contact form and choose "Correction". Tell us the article, the sentence and what is wrong; we aim to respond within five working days.

Right of reply

If you or your organisation is the subject of criticism in an article and believe it is unfair or factually wrong, write to editorial@thepropertydecision.com. We will consider a reply on the record.

Affiliate links and gifts

Any affiliate arrangement would be disclosed in the article itself. Recommendations are made on the merits, and a commission has never yet been a factor because we do not take any.

Writers do not accept payment, gifts or hospitality from anyone they cover. Review items, where they exist, are returned or declared.

Reader data

How we handle your data is set out in the privacy policy and the cookie policy. In short: we collect as little as we can, we do not sell personal data, and advertising cookies only run if you agree to them.