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Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...

It’s holiday time: schools have broken up, quite a few estate agents are taking time off, and the MPs are in...

Why do we choose to engage with one application more than another, or find ourselves returning to the same piece of...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

Location, Location, Location: it’s no coincidence the TV show seized on that title because the importance of a property’s position is...

Having recently attended FUTURE: PropTech in London, it struck me just how far the integration of property and technology has progressed...

Firstly, my sincere apologies - it has now been over a month since my last PropTech blog, doesn’t time fly!  In the...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property listings market a few weeks ago it sent shockwaves across the...

From where I’m standing there’s a lot in common between the debate between online and traditional agents, and the argument over...

“Baton down the hatches. Stockpile the food cupboard. Brexit is coming and it’s little more than six months away!” I jest, but there is...

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...

Were it not for climate change, I would be very close to predicting that the summer is close to being over,...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

More than half of home owners now use online reviews to choose their estate agent when putting their property on the...

Having delivered over 1,800 websites for estate agents over the last 15 years, I have come to recognise one major common...

Over the last 10 years, so much has changed within the marketing sector, including the surge of mobile use, the way...

Google celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Yes, it might be hard to recall a time when it wasn’t integral in...

Fake news has become the popular catchphrase of a certain orange-tinted president in recent years. And everyone, from tech giants like...

For too long the private rented sector has been complacent towards customer satisfaction. In the changing rental landscape, the smartest letting...

In the past decade or so there has been a movement towards the use of digital signage screens within a number...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

We are currently engaged in consultations with our members to help to find a practical solution to the concern of the...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

At first sight, to suggest this is a good time for an agency business to go for an IPO - that...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...