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15 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - Marching bravely forward with eyes fixed firmly on the past](/upload/images/Property%20Natter.jpg)
Everyone’s a pundit these days, aren’t they? And January is pundit season – when a New Year starts, out come the...
20 January 2024
From: Features
![PropTech Today - Cyber security - who holds the keys?](/upload/images/PropTech%20.jpg)
The recent cyber attack on CTS left around 80 conveyancing firms across the country commercially paralysed as the harm to their...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![CTS Cyber Attack: 'What lessons need to be learned?'](/upload/images/01%20shutterstock_2316086497.jpg)
This week saw around 80 conveyancing firms across the UK paralysed by a service outage caused by a ‘cyber incident’ on...
02 December 2023
From: Features
![Agency software provider receives cybersecurity certification](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/VideoTours-400x310.jpg)
Agency software provider Reapit has achieved ISO 27001 certification for information security management. The certification means that Reapit has implemented one of...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – why brand reputation is more crucial for smaller firms](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...
08 October 2022
From: Features
![Conveyancing report highlights emerging property sales risks](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Digital-Online-400x310.jpg)
Cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies have been identified among the main risks facing conveyancers. The latest Risk Agenda report from the Council for Licensed...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Controversial conveyancer hits back at 'forgotten stamp duty' claim](/upload/images/library/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
The controversial conveyancing firm at the centre of an apparent cyber attack has hit back at newspaper claims that it did...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Cyber-security in 2022: what do agents need to know?](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineAgents-1-400x310.jpg)
I’m sure most readers would agree with me that cyber-security is vitally important for almost any business, particularly those businesses like...
12 February 2022
From: Features
![Property Natter – my predictions for the property market in 2022](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...
15 January 2022
From: Features
![Agent Alert - “more and more” cyber attacks on companies](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Digital-Online-400x310.jpg)
A warning has gone out to estate agents that “more and more” reports are being filed about cyber attacks on agencies...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancing IT crash - company slammed for ‘wall of silence’](/upload/images/library/Digital-Online-400x310.jpg)
A consultancy specialising in data protection issues has sharply criticised the Simplify Group for its ongoing lack of communications over its...
20 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cyber-Attack: Agents must learn from Simplify IT catastrophe](/upload/images/Logos/Guild-Logo-400x310.jpg)
Agents must have a robust plan in place in case they are subjected to a ransomware cyber attack, says the Guild...
23 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancing IT Attack: gradual improvement reported by Simplify](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineAgents-1-400x310.jpg)
The Simplify Group’s latest statement on the ongoing IT problem suggests a gradual improvement in services to agents and other clients. It...
23 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Debate As It Happened - What MPs Said](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...
01 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cyber attack hits council searches and will take months to recover](/img/default/eat.png)
A cyber-attack on a London council has caused some transactions to fall through and others to be significantly delayed. The attack occurred...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property transaction delays - where ARE the searches?](/img/default/eat.png)
Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...
05 December 2020
From: Features
![Zoopla repels cyber attack on its Alto software](/img/default/eat.png)
Zoopla has repelled a cyber attack on its Alto property software - with no breach of customer agents’ personal data. It has...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Cyber security - industry professionals feel unprepared for attacks](/img/default/eat.png)
Property professionals are increasingly worried about the threat of cyber attacks, according to new research. Some 41% of 'real estate professionals from...
03 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Many estate agencies at risk over data security, claims IT firm](/img/default/eat.png)
An IT firm says small and medium-sized estate agencies without the infrastructure of large corporates are putting themselves and their customers...
21 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Cyber attack - small agencies accused of being unprepared](/img/default/eat.png)
An insurance provider says small estate agencies are peculiarly vulnerable to cyber attack yet are amongst the least prepared amongst their...