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PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

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

Spicerhaart - which is radically reshaping its structure to encourage hybrid operations and working from home as part of a new...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

An online operator called Nested is to spend £5m to promote the self-employed estate agency concept in 100 parts of the...

With the competition for new listings between agents as fierce as ever, it can sometimes feel like a race to the...

Zoopla-owned software company Yourkeys and mortgage, insurance and wealth management broker SPF Private Clients have integrated. Yourkeys’ software provides buyer and seller...

Zoopla-owned Proptech platform Yourkeys has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind sales progression service for new-build shared ownership properties. It works like...

Last month it was reported that up to 500,000 people had been ‘pinged’ by the NHS in a week. While the...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

Anyone working in residential property knows it is taking longer and longer to get from SSTC (sold subject to contract) to...

The frenzy of activity in the housing market thanks to the stamp duty holiday shows the need for automated processes to...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Well I rarely use them now! Chris Hodgkinson, Managing Director What...

In the previous edition of PropTech Today, Nathan Emerson highlighted the importance of effective implementation, linking poor staff engagement to the...

Gathering and analysing feedback at all stages in the customer journey is highly important. So, where do we begin? For many estate...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Ben Ridgway, Group Managing Director at iamproperty. What is iamproperty...

Zoopla says house builders “are at the heart of everything we do” and it is revamping its New Homes marketing offer...

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

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

High profile agency owner Sean Newman is offering his entire self-employed team of 100 agents and mortgage advisors a chance for...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

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

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Vicky Quinn-Campbell – Sales and Marketing Director What is ‘company name’...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

A new Proptech platform is launching next month with claims it will “up-end the way agents do business” and that it will...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

At mio, we often have conversations with Estate Agency firms who have a dedicated sales progresser in their team. Whilst there...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jon Horton, Product director of sales progression platform, mio What does...

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

Let’s face it sales progression is difficult and frustrating: 1)The process has never been properly joined up - the average chain has...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is vital, and sales progression is more important than ever. Emma Vigus, Managing...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of sales progression platform mio You’ve never...

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

As we emerge from lockdown, quickly progressing sales to completion is vital to replace lost commission income.  What role can mio...

PropTech supplier mio says it now has over 1,000 agency branches using its sales progression platform - and it’s recruited Countrywide...

Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being one of the most stressful life experiences that we can go...

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

Your business may be growing quicker than you could ever imagine which is great when it comes to raising brand awareness....

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

An online agency’s claim that it sells homes “for free” has been disputed by a High Street rival - but the...

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager for the South West of...

Online estate agency Housesimple is extending its offer to sell homes for free to some postcodes in the Midlands.  The offer is...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio What is mio and what...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

In the latest part of the Natter’s ‘day in the life of’ series, I catch up with Chris Osmond, sales director...

Here at sales progression and communication tool mio, we recently caught up with Sarah Edmundson, co-director of The AllStars Group, the...

28th NOVEMBER 2019: Christopher Watkin’s recent thought-provoking interview with Dan Marsden sheds light on the property industry today and offers an...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Michelle O’Brien, mio Account Manager for Home Counties North What is...

A PropTech firm has calculated the different delays that lead to transactions taking an average 120 days (and often much longer)...

Two separate former High Street estate agents have sung the praise of switching to the hybrid business model. Appleby’s in Gloucestershire is...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

Ashleigh Thwaites, Branch Manager at Emersons Green, Taylors shares how mio has transformed her approach to sales progression by making it...

Young homebuyers want tech-savvy, astute and attentive estate agents who are able to handle their complex requirements via a range of...

One month on from introducing sales progression and communication tool, mio, to her branch in Chippenham (Wiltshire), Michelle Hallas, Residential Sales...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? David Masters – Account Manager for the Midlands What is ‘company...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

Robert Anderson, Branch Manager at William H Brown in Leicester shares how sales progression and communication tool, mio, has created a...

Property management service Move with Us has announced a new partnership with chain management service View My Chain. Move with Us, founded...

Continuing political uncertainty over Brexit and now a significant chance of an autumn or winter General Election makes the case for...

Fox and Sons goes digital and improves their sales progression with mio Lucy Luxton, Branch Manager at Fox and Sons, Tiverton (Devon)...

Since first meeting the mio team at The Negotiator Awards back in November 2018 – and being presented with no less...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

A sales progression tool is urging property professionals and consumers alike to do more to speed up typical transaction times, and...

Carl Hemming, Director from Ginger in Balsall Common explains how mio has quickly proven to be a cost-effective way to simplify...

Matt Nicholson, Sales Progressor at Edwards & Co in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, explains how adopting sales progression and communication tool, mio, has...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Eric Woodhams F.N.A.E.A. mio Account Manager What is mio and what...

Improved communication and increased transparency throughout the buying process can manage vendors’ expectations, improve satisfaction scores and create long-term clients. That’s the...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

Purplebricks’ former chief executive Lee Wainwright has made a stout defence of the controversial agency’s sales progression process and its local...

Online agency Housesimple has become the first in the UK to sell houses for free. It says that based on the average...

The Federation of Independent Agents has agreed another new partnership with an industry supplier. The arrangement will allow FIA agent members nine...

Countrywide is declining to comment on speculation that it is making 36 of its sales progression staff redundant. Estate Agent Today, which...

A new sales progression tool that claims to have been hugely successful over an 18-month pilot is being rolled out across...

Two PropTech suppliers have this week announced new partnerships and products with the aim of helping estate agents.  Firstly, sales progression and...

The failure of online agencies to significantly disrupt the industry is down to their being too cheap and creating a perception...

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

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

The easyProperty online agency has abandoned an across-the-board fee structure, allowing its licensee agents to charge what they like. “Each local market is unique...

The regional agency MoveSelf, which set up in 2017 as an online estate agent, is shifting emphasis towards For Sale By...

Former City analyst Anthony Codling - who is now the front-man for a new property portal - has set out why...

With the speed of property sales continuing to slow and no end to the sluggishness in sight, it’s time to take...

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...

A new online agency says it is currently focussing on one large city but will expand to cover the whole of...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with sales progression company ViewMyChain. BestAgent, run by...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

A housing association has launched its own online agency which offers to sell vendors' homes for £275. Capsel Homes, based in Mamhilad,...

Two high street estate agents have used the medium of the local press to come out fighting against the threat of...

Online agency HouseSimple has become a completely No Sale No Fee agency - and is thought to be the only online...

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

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who shared and commented on my first blog and for all those that emailed me...

One of the country’s leading PropTech entrepreneurs has responded to recent criticism of online estate agencies and their allegedly-poor record of...

A new report by the residential property team of a legal firm has found widespread criticism of online agents’ over their...

“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words can drive you to distraction (any parent who has endured the...

The housing market has returned to stability with exchanges up one per cent year on year and the average house price...

A chain tracking platform claims a trial by Leaders Group during 2017 shows its sales progression tool improving completion times by...

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

Here it is - the industry’s verdict on the latest set of figures from Purplebricks. The agency doesn’t play by any of...

More than one in four house sales across England and Wales fell through before completion in the third quarter of 2017...

easyProperty has unveiled details of its relaunch, declaring itself to be the UK’s second largest hybrid estate agency - second only...

eMoov, the online agency which last month secured an additional £9m funding from investors, has launched a recruitment drive for what...

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

The Guild of Property Professionals, which earlier this month merged with easyProperty, has now announced a new link up, this time...

An estate agent claims that chain management tool View My Chain has helped his firm to deal with chains involving online...

A network of almost 80 independent estate agency offices has launched what it calls a hard-hitting campaign against 'internet-based call centre...

A sales progression tool claims to have analysed how long it takes to expedite sales chains of different lengths, and to...

Analysis of over 500,000 transactions shows that completions are slowest in London and the South East. The average progress from an offer...

Countrywide’s Bairstow Eves brand has launched a series of video guides for customers using their £995 online agency service and for...

Sohail Rashid discusses data driven sales progression in this video below. View My Chain allows agents and home movers to view automated...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...

An estate agency described as operating a ‘pay as you go’ business model says it wants to “disrupt the disruptors” operating...

Tepilo, Sarah Beeny’s online estate agency, has opened a new headquarters in central London after doubling its turnover in the past...

A new automated sales progression tool being launched today promises to require fewer resources from agents in return for ensuring faster...

In recent weeks I have been carrying out question and answer sessions with some of the key figures in the property...

Tepilo is the latest online estate agency to introduce an option for sellers to pay after a sale is completed, instead...

The internet has changed the way that most businesses operate. In many cases, the opportunities opened up by the emergence of...

Online agency easyProperty has launched its residential sales service this week, ahead of schedule - and catching some elements of the...

Online agency easyProperty has launched its residential sales service today, ahead of schedule, with a sales section already on the easyproperty.com...

Estate agents want systems that deliver power, speed and mobility. Increase efficiency, reduce admin, offer a personalised service and increase your income...