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The check-out report is a critical point in the tenancy and has the power to make the moving-out process run smoothly...

Recent months have seen interest rates rise from historic lows back closer to pre-financial crisis levels as the Bank of England...

Interim rental inspections have taken a hit over the past two years and letting agents are now wading through their backlogs...

Online searches for property portals have declined, in another suggested sign of the slowing market. Analysis of data from AdWords and Google Trends...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

In this article, the team at Iceberg Digital highlight how one agent has benefitted from using software that has enabled him...

For years, the issue of phone etiquette created tension between estate agents and the legal profession, the former claiming lawyers won’t...

There are many myths about using virtual tours to sell or let properties. The most common perceptions are that virtual property...

With Earth Day in April and Environment Day looming in June, all businesses and individuals are becoming more aware of their...

As amendments to smoke and carbon monoxide alarm legislation loom for rented properties later this year, we look at how inventory...

A Canadian investment fund with a roughly two per cent share in Foxtons is arguing for the agency to be put...

Reapit Elements is an open-source, cross-platform design system that gives designers and developers a framework to quickly create responsive, device-agnostic, and...

I’m sure most readers would agree with me that cyber-security is vitally important for almost any business, particularly those businesses like...

Rightmove has revealed a major rise in visits to its site and app as the housing market boom shows no sign...

Property checks can be the bane of a letting agent’s life if left unchecked. Throw in the winter weather, and you’ve...

High profile conveyancing supremo Rob Hailstone makes many announcements about government and industry housing policy - but he is less keen...

The ValPal Network has announced the release of its MovePal app on the Apple App and Google Play stores. The app is...

Rightmove claims its visits over the Christmas period were its busiest ever with what it calls ‘buyer demand’ up 23 per...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

Virtual tours are becoming an increasing necessity for agents when listing properties for sale or let. Covid has of course accelerated this...

Tech stack is a term often used nowadays to describe all the software tools within a business. Calling it a stack...

In this op-ed, Warwick Haycock, accounting software specialist at The Access Group, looks at how the use of tech can empower...

PropTech is booming, and its rise was only accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced the real estate industry – as...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

The property industry and its many stakeholders are key participants in a global digital transformation that has been underway for quite...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

The Federation of Independent Agents has today announced a strategic partnership with award-winning website creative firm Estate Apps. The partnership will enable...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

Tech, as has been shown more than ever during the pandemic, can be a wonderful thing – bringing people closer together,...

A career in property can be fun and rewarding, but it’s a busy world to live and work in. As we...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising agents not to settle for simply having their websites up and running, and instead using CRM...

Guided by our philosophy of being open and connected, at MRI we are constantly evolving and developing relationships and partnerships with...

For over 20 years, Reapit's CRM software has been the obvious choice for any self-respecting estate agency business. Used today by...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, technology has proven to be the answer for many problems faced by sectors across...

A new Home Buyer App has been launched by the Mortgage Advice Bureau in a bid to educate first time buyers...

A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...

Property portal app MoveStreets says the latest upgrade to its app sends leads to agents’ inboxes and allows users to instantly arrange...

Hello and welcome to another ADC, the weekly wrap of good work by the industry. You probably know the score by now...

Banking has gone through radical changes in the past few years, in step with technology and the sheer amount we can...

The last 12 months have heralded significant change across the property market and indeed we could argue across all markets in...

In my previous Estate Agent Today feature, I endeavoured to explain the key differences between APIs and Apps, to help improve...

Have you found yourself asking the question: “what is the difference between an API and an App?” No doubt we are all...

Hello and welcome to the end of another week - and a step in the right direction towards the easing of...

As the official advice over holidays descends into farce - can we go this year? if so at home or away?...

Who are you? Hi, I’m Richard Price, Managing Director at Dezrez. Who are Dezrez and what EACRM do you provide? At Dezrez we’re on...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

Rezi’s integration with Zapier has transformed the way in which estate agents can now save time, money and resource. Agents are...

The UK lettings market is no stranger to technology. But only a few of the early initiatives have remained, and landlords...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

Hello and welcome to the new working week. Here’s the latest information on key hires across our industry: if you have similar...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

A digital ‘members-only club’ for property professionals around the world has slashed its prices nine months after launching. The Eighth Door is...

We all know the world has gone digital—nothing new there. Every time you jump online, you’re one of 4.5 billion internet...

A conveyancing firm has launched what it claims to be one of the first ever apps for vendors and buyers in...

New research shows that 77 per cent of consumers use portals to conduct property searches - meaning, surprisingly, that almost a...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

First things first, a big happy New Year to everyone. Welcome to 2020! It looks set to be another interesting year...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

Outsourcing important business functions such as marketing, HR and IT to attract cost savings, leverage expertise and gain greater competitive advantage is...

When we launched Reapit’s Foundations Platform as a Service (PaaS) in November, it may have seemed like a recent development in...

A new digital ‘members-only club’ is being launched for property professionals around the world.  The Eighth Door is a web and app-based...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

You don’t need to go far to find news about the UK lettings market. From the banning of tenant fees to...

Rightmove has been given the green light to continue using the claim that “every second someone contacts an estate agent about a...

Reapit has launched a platform, cloud infrastructure and marketplace called Foundations which aims to provide “all the PropTech solutions” for agencies’...

You’ve probably heard about unified communications (UC) before. But why are your competitors and other organisations moving towards centralised comms platforms? What are...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

Zoopla claims its new app has a huge level of what it calls “user engagement” within a month of launching. It’s hit...

Zoopla has announced an improved app which “enhances the house-hunting journey with a fresh design, improved navigation and an intuitive interface” -...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Facebook is set to enter the cryptocurrency business with the big reveal of its formal plans scheduled for some point this...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

Having a responsive website - one which is designed to automatically resize to fit the size of the screen of the...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

BAD PHOTOS – 6 BIG MISTAKES YOU MIGHT BE MAKING! In our last article, we highlighted some really important and shocking stats...

The ‘new broom’ owners of Zoopla have revealed that Gary Bramall is to be the firm’s new chief marketing officer charged with...

The UK renting demographic is diversifying at a rapid pace. While the current market poses many challenges for traditional letting agents,...

When was the last time you looked at your business and really thought about what you could do to improve? Yesterday? Last...

A new book has revealed that one of the long line of recent housing ministers was known as “the invisible minister”...

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

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

Gone are the days of having to rush back to your office every time you win an instruction to market the...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

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

The UK PropTech Awards are fast approaching. The window is open for applications and nominations and on May 2, the winners...

Data from a firm specialising in lone-worker protection suggests that there has been a 27 per cent increase in the number...

ZPG says it anticipates a strong 2018 according to a trading statement ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today. The firm...

Sky News is reporting that the non-executive chairman of Purplebricks, Paul Pindar, is set to invest a seven figure sum in...

After the fun and over-indulgence of the festivities, most of us are now back to the world of work. And, with...

It didn’t take long - within 24 hours of high-flying Tory Dominic Raab being named as housing minister, so there was...

A new property portal called Linktosale aims to launch in the UK at the start of March following what appears to...

Hybrid estate agency eMoov has announced a new hire as chief operating officer with the remit of driving growth.  Guy Halfhead has previously...

The ZPG app for mobile users of the Zoopla and Primelocation websites has now been downloaded more than 10m times. ZPG launched...

Employment tribunal fees could soon become extinct, after the Supreme Court ruled they were an obstacle to the ‘access of justice’.  Once...

Once upon a time there were estate agents. That was it. Nice and simple. If you marketed and sold residential property,...

The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country have launched a new referral system app which allows its members to...

Fisher German is launching an app that will feature news feeds from the BBC, Farmers Weekly and from the agency itself...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

Yesterday’s decision by MPs to agree to Theresa May’s snap General Election on June 8 means that the current government -...

Grant Shapps, housing minister between 2010 and 2012, has said the measures in the current government’s White Paper are not bold...

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with too much time on their hands. For God’s sake - behind...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

The property marketing company Pelican Media is preparing to launch what it claims is the industry’s first voice control software across...

The end of 2016 saw the launch of 30,000 new build-to-rent (BTR) projects in London alone. With market growth projected to...

We’re taking a temporary break from showing images of your terrific agency windows and decorations - and instead, we’re concentrating on...

The mobile apps for Zoopla and Primelocation passed the 8.5m milestone this week, with the former moving into number two spot...

Rightmove has employed jClarity, a ‘performance tuning specialist’, to improve the search facility on its applications. A statement from jClarity on the...

A new app is being launched allowing agents to provide vendors with feedback directly from buyers who have seen their properties.  The...

It’s all been kicking off in recent weeks, hasn’t it? Marmite wars, the endless Trump v Clinton debate, Samsung phones blowing...

Zoopla Property Group says there were over 53m visits to its Zoopla and PrimeLocation websites in September, up 13 per cent...

Estate agents are to be given access to PropertyBOX – a free floor plan and photo enhancing app. The app comes from...

Two estate agencies have incorporated video footage on to their website homepages in order to promote their brands to prospective clients. Lumley...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

Paying too much every month for your website? Move your website to us and we guarantee to halve your monthly bill I want...

The results of some interesting research have been revealed - applying to the United States but possibly indicative of how property...

Nearly three quarters of people who have sold or bought a property deem it more stressful than having a child or...

‘Digital technology in the property industry is here to stay’ was very much the opinion drawn from the recent FUTURE: PropTech...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has today reported a strong period of growth during the six months to the end of March...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has challenged the government over its renewed attempt to privatise the Land Registry. Last week's Queen's...

Storm Katie (makes it sound so harmless when they give it a name like that, doesn’t it?) might have given the...

The days are getting longer, the sun is starting to appear on a more regular basis, Easter is just around the...

The amount of column inches taken up by ‘property’ is at an all-time high.  In my mind there are two major contributing...

Let Mid West Displays get your window in shape! Never underestimate the power of high street presence. Image is everything, and what...

The prospect of quarterly tax returns being imposed on some businesses - including small estate agencies and other small firms servicing...

South of England agency chain Andrews has launched a new app and website as part of its brand-refreshing programme for 2016.  The...

There are fears that a little-publicised proposal could mean some of the country's smallest estate agencies would have to file tax returns...

A new app, Qoob, allows people to use a smartphone to swipe through homes put on the market by private sellers...

An interesting story caught my eye a few weeks ago. A man from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire attempted to sell...

Zoopla Property Group says it has achieved over seven million downloads for its mobile apps, a milestone it reached during October when...

The chief executive of Countrywide, Alison Platt, has hinted her firm may invest in, or acquire, an internet start-up company to...

Over the past few years Rightmove and Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) have each been spending massive sums on marketing and product...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

It’s become almost obligatory for start-ups in many industries – frequently online agents in the selling and letting business – to...

Connect branch networks, automate sales and marketing and highlight business opportunities with Rezi’s agile cloud platform Rezi Premium is more than a...

Rightmove is to relaunch its portal with a design to emphasise what it claims is increasing consumer-friendliness and ever-higher volumes of...

Q: Tell us about Kristina Grimes. I am the Sales Director of Dezrez, one of the leading providers of estate agency software....

www.dezrez.com/rezi Whilst the estate agency market has accelerated over the last ten years, it’s fair to say that technical innovation in the...