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To commemorate PayProp’s 20th year in business, Estate Agent Today’s Lee Dahill took a walk down memory lane with Neil Cobbold,...

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has expanded its executive committee with the appointment of Nick Chadbourne from conveyancing panel provider LMS. The...

A new action group has been formed that is expressing concern about ineffective legal regulation as well as extra responsibilities being...

Agency software provider Alto has launched a new Partner Hub for proptech firms. The Zoopla-backed brand said proptech firms will be able...

Blockchain property network Coadjute has secured £4m of funding as it looks to continue efforts to transform the ease and speed...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has been ranked amongst the UK’s 50 fastest growing technology companies in the 2022 Deloitte UK...

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

Industry veteran Bryan Mansell has questioned why the property sector has allowed transaction times to slow to record levels. It comes as...

Agency proptech supplier Muuvo has partnered with Canopy to provide its RentPassport and RentTracking products. Muuvo provides software for agents to help...

When was the time you actively learned something new from your clients or competitors? If it’s a difficult question to answer quickly,...

Christmas - time for a much-needed rest for our industry after getting through a workload which reached almost unprecedented levels in...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

In the third part of this series, Neil Cobbold – Chief Sales Officer at rental payment automation provider PayProp – explores...

OnTheMarket’s new chief executive has posted his first full year’s trading figures - and they suggest the portal is making progress...

We recently conducted a survey and discussion session with estate and lettings agencies called Agency panel - Cut through the noise...

Will Rightmove still be the dominant portal by 2030? Will Boomin really shake up the industry as Purplebricks did before it?...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...

I was giving an interview this week for an upcoming conference - yet another to convert from a physical to a...

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

OneDome has released a list of High Street agencies that have signed up to its free-to-list portal and sister website Nethouseprices  -...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - our first for some weeks as the coverage has previously been dominated by...

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

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

The lightbulb moment for LonRes was born out of sheer frustration. I’d just missed out on a deal and the postman...

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

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

PropTech services The ValPal Network and Loop Software have launched an integration which they say will reduce admin and maximise valuation opportunities...

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

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

I have been banging on about partnerships and collaborations for years now. Whether it’s between two real estate firms, two PropTech firms,...

We’re accustomed to tech firms promising disruption in how homes are bought, let, sold and rented: now one is pledging to...

Two of the PropTech sector's highest profile digital marketing suppliers are integrating in a bid to help agents nurture the leads...

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

One of the largest investors in Purplebricks has now joined forces with an off-shoot of luxury car firm Porsche to launch...

An interesting debate has been sparked in PropTech this week. It started with an interview, published on YouTube, in which Kristjan Byfield...

Recent years have seen tighter regulation and new legislation hit the lettings industry. Combined with the fee ban, there is no...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

A property software guru says he wants PropTech firms to join with him in an ‘open platform’ which would allow smaller...

Two online agents and a number of PropTech companies have been named in startups.co.uk's Startups 100 index. Coming in at number 64...

There is a lull in my imminent flat sale. Just no activity at all, despite a price reduction!  So, I am forced...

A former director at London agency Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has taken a swipe at agencies that have made knee-jerk changes...

PropTech firm Iceberg Digital has revealed an expansion of its marketing deal with franchise agency giant Hunters.  This will involve local content...

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

An estate agency has used the experiences of Cambridge, Oxford and other cities to forecast that pockets of central London's housing...

The government's call for evidence from agents and others in a bid to improve the house buying process has pushed some...

A founder of the new organisation seeking to be a trade body for independent estate and letting agents is warning that...