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Potential house buyers may be fine with virtual tours during lockdown periods, but as the country opens up, people are going...

Buyer behaviour has changed over the past year of the pandemic and it’s up to estate agents to calculate how to...

An agency says it now sells more prime London properties than any of its rivals. Chestertons makes the claim based on figures...

If your house is anything like mine, the postman has a path beaten to your door over the last nine months. In...

Government guidance on how agents can continue working during the lockdown has given a new importance to virtual viewings, says an...

Property expert Phil Spencer is warning that “chaos” and “mayhem” looms in the housing market if the stamp duty holiday is...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

Here at Giraffe360, the PropTech startup, we have raised a £3.5 million funding round to further accelerate our product development and...

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

It’s no secret that the recent pandemic has forced more businesses to operate remotely, but the shift for estate agents has...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

Across the UK and Europe, lockdown measures are changing and the markets are kicking back into life as we grow accustomed...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Stewart McRae, Sales Director at CoreLogic UK What is ‘company name’...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

There’s been a very significant increase in the number of listings carrying virtual viewings, accelerating during the period of the Coronavirus crisis and...

Although few expect virtual viewings to continue their popularity now that lockdown restrictions have been eased, there’s news this morning that...

A PropTech firm says it’s using what it calls “World War Three-style” hazard suits when they visit premises to create virtual...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Independent agency Nicol & Co is donating £100 to the NHS for every new instruction signed up by April 21. The agency...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

Floorplan and photography supplier FocalAgent is making a free offer to every agent in the UK during the virus crisis -...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

A Spanish housebuilder’s bespoke system to allow prospective buyers to view properties without visiting is being offered to the UK agency...

Midlands estate agency Centrick has launched a new specialist division to focus on the luxury homes market across the West Midlands...

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...

It’s been a busy year for Giraffe360. Following its £1 million successful funding round in January and moving its headquarters from...

New research suggests it takes, on average, six months and 24 days to buy a home. The study, for PropTech virtual tours...

Virtual tours are a compelling way of enhancing a property’s potential through online marketing, increased transparency and efficiency for agents, and...

Who are you? Mikus Opelts, CEO of Giraffe360 What is Giraffe360 and what does it do? Giraffe360 is a unique digital photography subscription service...

We all know the three essential things an estate agent must have on their website include the ability to be able...

A PropTech firm that provides photography for virtual tours, floor plans and online and hard copy property details is relocating from Latvia to...

PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and as more agents are familiar with the range of products and...

A recent 'red flag alert' report from an insolvency firm warned that the number of real estate businesses defined as being...

A leading agent has urged major portals Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket to feature virtual viewings content more prominently on their platforms. Writing...

Firstly, my sincere apologies - it has now been over a month since my last PropTech blog, doesn’t time fly!  In the...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

I had an interesting meeting last week with a VR company called Garou. Based in New York, they claim to have...

Online estate agency Tepilo has denied industry speculation that it is to change its fee structure now that it is under...

The man behind a PropTech company has blasted Rightmove and Zoopla for failing to emphasise 360-degree virtual tours - the feature recently...

Foxtons says it takes just eight minutes for a purchaser to know whether they will go ahead with buying a home.  The...

I’m excited to write this piece. I love it when something comes along and delivers that genuine thrill; the thrill of...

A provider of 360 virtual tours for estate and letting agents has announced it is offering customers a 'freemium package'. EyeSpy360 previously...

A PropTech firm is to launch a 'printed augmented reality' service that allows buyers to point their smartphone and get additional information...

eMoov is to offer virtual tours to clients free of charge - a service for which it says rival online agents...

When marketing a property for sale, there are a number of attributes that buyers and sellers today expect ‘as standard’, but...

One of the original online estate agents, Hatched, is marking its tenth anniversary with a series of announcements.  The firm, which began...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI). We’ve seen it feature prominently this year on film (in...

A London start-up is the latest to launch virtual reality technology aimed at estate agents and property buyers.  Launched last week, VirtuEye...