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PropTech platform Gazeal, which specialises in digital reservation agreements and upfront seller information, has announced that it now has an app available...

Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to fix other people's problems than your own? Whether it is resolving a friend's...

For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...

The digital transformation of the property industry is not a new chapter, but an ongoing journey in which the winners are...

Reapit’s AgencyCloud users now have access to proptech firm Viewber. Agents will be able to use vetted “Viewbers” to help secure viewings...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

Technology developed for the estate agency industry has advanced and expanded seismically over the past decade as software vendors develop their...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

The hot topic of rent controls has remerged in recent weeks, with passionate voices on both sides of the argument speaking...

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...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

A good website is no longer optional for estate agents, as no single aspect of marketing to new customers is more...

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...

Trust has always been vital for building and nurturing good relations between an agent and their customer. Maintaining trust will keep...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

Estate agency business platform Reapit is launching AgentPoint services in the UK - just seven months after it acquired AgentPoint in...

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

I’m going to declare upfront that, as an investor, I have a financial interest in the success of MovePal but I also need...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

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

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - another opportunity to see how our industry is doing great work...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

The Victorian phrase “as safe as houses” well surmises the security of the housing market as, whether they are buying or...

Business intelligence is paramount to companies looking to gain a competitive edge, particularly in saturated markets like estate agency. Each client...

Blockchain network Coadjute has announced new partnerships with software firms. Coadjute launched in July and claims it will halve the time it...

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

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

Trust the process: subscribe your landlords and tenants to Task Plans and receive automated prompts when it’s the right time to...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Around 2.66 million landlords were operational in Great Britain in 2019, according to data estimations previously released by Hamptons International. Of those...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

It’s British Grand Prix weekend, one of the big events on the sporting calendar and this year back with a full...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

Digital signatures are not new but the relative slowness with which they have been adopted by the industry is disappointing, according...

Home set up and utility management service Just Move In is the latest partner on Reapit’s CRM. The 5,000-plus agents who use Reapit’s...

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

There are an estimated 2.7 million landlords in the private rented sector (PRS) providing rental accommodation to multiple generations of tenant,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am Mark Armstrong, and my business card says...

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...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

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

Welcome to Agents Do Charity, the weekly fund-raising catch up - as ever, even during challenging times, it’s great to see...

CRM supplier Reapit, backed by private equity funding, has entered into an international deal to acquire a leading Australian PropTech provider...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

Former Reapit chief Gary Barker is to join Connells Group, just as the company is taking over Countrywide. Barker - who last...

A series of PropTech announcements over recent days suggest the sector is still buoyant with innovation. Firstly it’s been revealed that agents...

Reapit has named Mark Armstrong as the new chief executive officer, the post occupied by the high profile and popular Gary...

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

A PropTech platform that says it halves the time taken for transactions has just completed a multi-million pound investment round. Coadjute - which...

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

Boomin, the new portal being set up by the founders of Purplebricks, is holding a series of confidential webinars next week...

The portal  set up by Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny Bruce has revealed it's recruited Rightmove and Zoopla personnel and intends...

Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny Bruce have revealed the name of their new property venture.  It’s to be called Boomin. There are still few specific...

The founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has this morning revealed his new project to be called Launch B - and he...

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

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...

PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

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,...

A free to list property portal has announced its integration with two leading property management solutions. Estate agents using either Reapit or...

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

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

Reservation Agreements may require bigger financial penalties than the £500 to £1,000 currently envisaged if they are to work. That’s the view...

In a previous Natter, I promised to talk more about CRMs – and here I stick to that promise. Following on from...

News this week tells of Zehomes, the German property management company, raising €13 million in Series-A funding, bringing its all-time total...

I wrote last week about Keller Williams and how their leader, Gary Keller, is doing an admirable job of driving innovation through...

Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather.  Yet...

Hello there - if it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity, and as we prepare for a hot weekend for Glastonbury revellers...

The Innovative Collaboration Group - a collection of high-profile tech suppliers to the agency industry - has unveiled a raft of new...

Hello, it’s that time of the week again when we look at the latest recruitment and appointment news in the industry. Just...

Whether it is legacy providers with new, young businesses, or large banks with PropTech startups, all types of cross-collaboration are vital. It’s...

As the clock ticks down and Britain’s future gets ever more difficult to predict, one of the few certainties to cling...

Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...

A 36 per cent collapse in sales between November and January has created an “unprecedented” five year low in the number...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

Every other advert on the TV is featuring Santa Claus, snowmen or reindeer, the tinsel, trees and decorations are out in...

A diverse cast-list has been announced for this year’s Relocation Agent Network national conference and exhibition to be staged in London...

Bored with Brexit? Baffled by the backstop? Troubled by the transition period?  Well here’s a promise - there’s no mention of the...

Hello and welcome to our weekly catch-up on the major moves within our industry. Remember, you can let the rest of the...

Reapit’s popular former sales manager Peter Fenwick is today formally launching as an independent PropTech consultant. Fenwick, whose departure from Reapit was...

Reapit has teamed up with a new tool called mio, which is promising “a smarter way to manage the home buying...

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

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,...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

A report drawn up by Reapit and data consultancy Dataloft suggests that agents in 2017 lost a potential (and jaw-dropping) £4...

Highly regarded industry figure Simon Whale, who quit his role as head of sales at Reapit on Friday, took to the...

Reapit has announced that its head of sales, the well-respected and popular industry figure Simon Whale, is leaving the company.  He is...

Clients of software provider Reapit can now integrate with leading sharing and online valuation service The ValPal Network. The objective is to help Reapit...

As we move towards another Bank Holiday Weekend, there is no shortage of phenomenal fundraising efforts from those in our industry.  If...

Reapit has announced the acquisition of Resource Techniques in a bid to strengthen its position in the agency software market. Resource Techniques,...

OnTheMarket has announced that industry software company Reapit is introducing a real time data feed for its clients to upload their properties...

One of the industry’s best-known software suppliers Reapit has announced that it’s acquired Pocket Size Media - a firm that provides...

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

Welcome to another edition of Agents Do Charity, the weekly round-up of fund-raising from across our industry. With spring looking like it’s...

Three weeks has flown by (I missed an early deadline last week - apologies) and I find myself writing the next...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

Only two weeks into the new year and we’re already in full swing with a wide range of fund-raising - well...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

Training for Agents Giving’s Strictly Come Dancing event is now entering its final two weeks - and Estate Agent Today readers...

After some months of speculation within the industry, high-profile supplier Reapit has confirmed today that it is the subject of a...

As someone who spends his days peering into the PropTech world, one thing I’ve observed is the way in which certain tech prompts...

Let’s face it - summer seems to be on holiday itself, if the weather in the UK is anything to go...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released the full wording on its decision to give the go-ahead to ZPG’s acquisition of Expert...

Reapit has launched a new digital product following agents’ demands to handle an increasing volume of out of hours dealings with...

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...

The Guild of Property Professionals is holding its annual regional meetings next month at 10 sporting venues across the UK under...

The ESTAS has announced its final - and to some its most prestigious - shortlist for this year’s awards.     The People...

Reapit, the provider of CRM software to much of the estate agency industry, has become one of the partners for the...

Schools going back, final Bank Holiday over until Christmas, and agents returning from their summer breaks. It can only mean September. But...

CRM software provider Reapit, has teamed up with Agency Mentors to provide training programmes for agents.  Reapit says its agent customers who...

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

The raterAgent website is to use an automatic email generating service to encourage more reviews. raterAgent has teamed up with Reapit to...

The founder of high-end shirt manufacturer Charles Tyrwhitt, Nick Wheeler, and the well-known stand up comedian Tim Vine, are amongst the...

It will come as no surprise for those who have read the recently published Which? annual customer service survey which polled...