Q&A: What are stock screens?

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Pramit Ghose, managing partner at Bloxham, explains what stock screens are and how they work.

Q. What are stock screens and how do you use them? A. Let me give you a practical example. My family was going on holidays two years ago. We wanted to go to Portugal; we wanted to be near Porto; we wanted to be near the sea; we wanted an apartment with four bedrooms and we wanted a swimming pool; and we did not want to pay more than £2,000 per week for this very nice apartment. What did we do? We put all the requirements into Google and we did a search and out came 20 answers. Then we sifted through them. That essentially is the same with the screen. We have written our own Google sea...

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