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A company promoting a Blockchain platform with promises to speed up the buying and selling process claims the pandemic has proved...

Imagine a Zoom call where ten people are discussing the same topic, but everyone speaks a different language and has a...

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

Two property portals insist they’re going to launch this spring despite the Coronavirus chaos effectively closing down much of the housing...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

Hello and welcome to the first PJT of 2020 - a new decade and, for many, a time of new opportunities. We’re always...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

A new portal claims it will do what OnTheMarket failed to do, and offer an agent-led operation charging every agency branch...

I got an overnight flight to Nigeria yesterday. I landed at 5am local time and am only just now getting sensation...

The niche agency Singer Veille has set up its own PropTech consultancy and application development service for the property industry. Singer Veille...

Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...

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

Traditionally speaking, users who are looking to buy, rent, or sell their property to customers on an international basis have been...

The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...

The city of Norwich has become the sixth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...

Property portal Rightmove has confirmed that it is trialling an option which allows buyers of commercial properties to submit offers online...

A property in London’s Mayfair has a price tag of £23m and is being sold via a system allowing interested parties...

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

It’s London Tech Week, everybody! The sprawling city-wide event taking in dozens of conferences, events, workshops, panel debates and so on,...

PropTech players behind a recent trial claim that use of Blockchain can cut a transaction time from a typical three months...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

HM Land Registry’s ambitious digitisation plans continue apace with news that it is to consider Blockchain in a bid to speed...

A new portal which had branded itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” appears to have had a setback...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and as more agents are familiar with the range of products and...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

Propteq Global Property Technology and Innovation summit takes place in London on 26 - 27 Sep. 75 of the world's leading...

A few stories caught my eye this week from China, all of which announce the arrival of cutting-edge technological innovation in...

The Future: PropTech conference takes place in under a fortnight’s time on May 2 and over 1,200 delegates have now been...

A Manchester-based property investment firm is claiming to be the first company in Britain to record an online exchange of a...

I had an interesting meeting last week with a VR company called Garou. Based in New York, they claim to have...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

Bitcoin has smashed into the headlines again recently with major news outlets describing the ever increasing worth of this wildly volatile...

If an industry, which is going through a major change is going to truly implement change at every level, it must...

In his PropTech 3.0 report, Andrew Baum dedicated an entire section to blockchain; it was titled: ‘Blockchain is coming – get...