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What a big week for PropTech! With the very first MIPIM PropTech conference, taking place in Paris today and tomorrow, comes...

The former managing director of Foxtons, Peter Rollings, has spilled the beans on what it was like working at the heart...

Peter Rollings is one of the most respected and best-known figures in property, having helped to rapidly grow Foxtons (where he...

Is there really any true value to an estate agent in our current climate? Will there be a role for traditional agents...

Outsourced viewing operator Viewber is expanding its offer to agents by forming what it calls “a close technical cooperation” with keyholding...

I’m writing this a week into my instruction decision. It has been a fascinating journey to date. As I discussed last week,...

The outsourced viewing service Viewber says it has now conducted over 20,000 viewings on behalf of agents and has secured another...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

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

Viewber, the outsourced viewing service, has marked its first anniversary by notching up its 6,500th appointment.  Launched in early September 2016 by...

One of the founding agents behind Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket and one of the current directors of Countrywide will be amongst...

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

I would argue the property industry is fundamentally inefficient. Much of that inefficiency is now being handled by PropTech companies and...

Given the shift change in the estate agent world at the moment, with online models becoming more prevalent (think easyProperty’s £60...

London estate agency Marsh & Parsons has announced that its sales director Liza-Jane Kelly has taken the decision to leave after...

Viewber, the outsourced property viewing service and brainchild of high-profile former estate agent Ed Mead, says its network of 'Viewbers' now...

If this past year is anything to go by, outsourcing is firmly on the agenda for estate agents. Rather than being...

One of the country’s leading estate agency consultants and trainers, Richard Rawlings, this week embarks on a six-week tour of the...

Peter Rollings, the well-known former managing director of Foxtons, has taken a stake in Viewber, the recently-launched outsourced viewing service.  Viewber allows...

Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.  Camilla...

Later on, the title of this piece should become clearer (at least I hope so). First, though, a few bits and...

Ed Mead, one of the most high profile estate agents in the industry, is leaving London agency Douglas and Gordon to...