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Clive Humby of Dunn Humby (the Mega Minds behind the Tesco Clubcard) declared that "Data is the new oil" in 2006....

Challenger portal Jangle has secured its first round of funding and has had hundreds of agents sign up so far. Jeremy Rosenblatt,...

Making predictions for the year ahead is notoriously difficult and leaves me open to having egg on my face, but I’m...

The results are finally in, and to no-one’s surprise Liz Truss has been named the new leader of the Conservative Party...

The lettings sector looks set to steam ahead in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021, despite the financial and mobility challenges of...

Homesearch has won £5m new investment from venture capital firm Octopus Ventures - an organisation that has also backed three businesses...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

The controversial ViewRabbit service, which proposes to charge prospective buyers and tenants for viewing properties, may seek international investment. The site has...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

Sky News is reporting that new portal Boomin is to announce the former chief executive of Sir Richard Branson’s business empire...

Knight Frank is investing an undisclosed sum in a venture capital firm specialising in PropTech. The money is going into a European...

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

I remember so clearly in my Foxtons days, working as a lettings manager in Putney, that lettings, though less sexy than...

Recently, when giving speeches, I have discussed investment trends and industry trends that the built environment is experiencing. They are quite...

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

An overview of the global PropTech sector is often what I am asked to cover at conferences around the world. This generally...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

I was asked a question by a German journalist yesterday. What is the biggest lesson German and European PropTech founders can...

This week I fly to Spain to present at a conference called Immotechnia. I am opening the conference with a 45-minute...

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...

The man who founded Zoopla is now a second hand car salesman - but with a digital difference. Alex Chesterman, who founded...

Housing Minister Esther McVey has launched an expert advisory council that the government says is “dedicated to the digital transformation of...

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

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

This week, you find me in Italy. Now that we’ve entered that languid month of August, where all of real estate...

“You say tomato, I say tomato” is a line in a famous film score way back in the 1937 film Shall...

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

The former LSL director of estate agency, David Newnes, has made what is officially described as “a significant investment” in a...

The chief executive of failed online agency Emoov has been named this week as one of the 500 top “tech influencers”...

It’s been reported that Nested, an estate agency launched two years ago, has received a massive £120m cash injection from venture capitalists. Nested, which...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

One of the largest investment firms in the United States has taken a stake in the London-based venture capital firm Pi...

Online estate agency Settled has raised £1.2 million in funding to further develop its product. Settled describes itself as a 'powerful digital...

On behalf of The University of Oxford, Professor Andrew Baum has overseen the compiling of an academic study of the PropTech...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

Another Countrywide executive has left the company - the latest departure is Eyal Malinger, the director of corporate development. Harvard-educated Malinger had...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

It almost goes without saying that PropTech is a hot topic these days - this year alone we’ve seen multi-million pound...

As any marketer will tell you, the marketing mix in its most basic form is made up of 4 P’s: Price,...

Ivy Gate, the start-up hybrid estate agency which won investment from TV Dragon James Caan three years ago, has announced its...

An entrepreneurial website has revealed the investors behind this month's crowdfunding success by online agency eMoov. Episode 1 Ventures and Maxfield Capital...

Controversial agency eMoov, which has already raised over half a million pounds in a weekend of crowdfunding, says online agencies now...

Frazer Fearnhead, a founder of The House Crowd property crowdfunding platform, has been sharply criticised in a ‘car crash’ moment on BBC...