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Homesearch is launching a new product designed to help agents convert past contacts into future instructions.  The PropTech company says its Re:Contact...

Artificial Intelligence is now a part of all our lives, but my attention was grabbed recently by an AI critique of...

Alto has announced a new integration with secure messaging platform Tappter. Existing Alto customers can get seamlessly set up with Tappter to...

Renting a flat or house in the UK has never been more difficult. The market is tight, supply is limited and...

Property industry veteran Mal McCallion has helped launch a new artificial intelligence (AI) property search tool that agents can embed in...

Alto has unveiled a new integration with Bridge AI – a system designed to streamline communication with applicants through their preferred...

In his latest column, Jonathan Rolande, founder of House Buy Fast, explains how those working in the sector can beat the...

From Google to Uber, convenience is embedded into contemporary culture. As a society, we’re propelled by on-demand living, with instant solutions for...

New software has been launched to help estate agents collect feedback on viewings. Feedback Enterprise, from the Cumbrian communications specialists SMS Speedway,...

OnTheMarket (OTM) has launched a range of new tools that aim to boost the user experience for consumer and also make...

Utility technology platform Muuvo has unveiled a range of new features as it celebrates its second birthday. The proptech firm provides a...

Potential buyers will be able to search for eco-friendly homes and message an agent through WhatsApp as part of a range...

Property portals remain the predominant route for finding a home among buyers but many are still following traditional methods, research suggests. A...

Many agents may communicate with vendors and potential buyers over WhatsApp but could your profile picture be harming client relations. Previous analysis...

WhatsApp is being predicted to become a key messaging tool for estate agents in the coming years. Messaging provider SMS Speedway analysed...

For years, the issue of phone etiquette created tension between estate agents and the legal profession, the former claiming lawyers won’t...

Three of the leading industry content specialists are set to gather on stage together for what is believe to be the...

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

Good-quality APIs can help agents to thrive in 2022 and beyond according to industry PropTech supplier Openview – Powered by VTUK.  API,...

A PropTech platform is urging agents to keep in touch with clients on their databases to increase their chances of future...

As virtual tours start to get even more popular, and in some cases become the norm for the majority of letting...

Day in, day out, I see how good estate agents really are.  Whether it’s in my day job on Location, Location, Location...

One of the most senior politicians involved in the property industry is embroiled in a row over her anti-Marcus Rashford social...

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

A new survey of some 700 estate agency customers show that they want to get traditional services like High Street branches,...

The TDS annual review 2020 indicates that deposit disputes have remained low over the last year, at around 1%. This is...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

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

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

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have revealed their latest bids to keep agent support. Rightmove is launching an extensive redesign of property details pages, after...

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

Conferences, events and awards dinners are a hugely important part of the property calendar, bringing the great and the good of...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

  On Estate Agent Today this Bank Holiday weekend we’re celebrating the great work agents are doing to keep morale high and...

Over Easter we carried stories of good deeds done by agents and how firms were coping with working from home -...

Three more property players have been in touch to share what they're doing to help their staff during lockdown - there...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

A Fine & Country agent has just sold a home based on a video viewing, and is now sharing tips with...

Winkworth is now offering free video valuations to clients who are considering a future house move. It’s created a bespoke virtual service...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

Working from home is something of a leveller right now, applying to people in the capital and in the sticks, but...

Late last year a buying agent at Stacks Property Search and Acquisition set up a village Good Neighbour Scheme with her...

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

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

Agents are consistently being told that they need to get on board with change. And one could quite easily make the...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

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

The ‘on-demand’ economy is reshaping our world. The way we order food, get around, and even access healthcare has changed irreversibly...

“There won’t be a single home but millions of different homes”, is one quote.  “There will be an end to gadgets”, is...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

I suspect that at some time we have all rented an Airbnb (I am sitting on the couch of one as...

A new PropTech product uses WhatsApp to communicate within agency teams as soon as a lead is received from a portal. However,...

As the founder of Jupix, I worked in the property industry between 2008 - 2014. I had the privilege to lead...

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

Estate and letting agents will for the first time be able to use WhatsApp to respond to leads on a 24/7...

Zoopla has announced an improved app which “enhances the house-hunting journey with a fresh design, improved navigation and an intuitive interface” -...

Facebook is set to enter the cryptocurrency business with the big reveal of its formal plans scheduled for some point this...

With the UK population spending longer in rental accommodation, due to the upfront expense of buying a home, their time and...

An estate agent in the north of England has been confronted by vigilantes who duped him into thinking they were underage girls.  The...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in our lives – from virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and...

An estate agency is pioneering a new business model in which it charges no commission whatsoever to the vendor. Freeagent247, an online...

For too long the private rented sector has been complacent towards customer satisfaction. In the changing rental landscape, the smartest letting...

Sky News is reporting that the non-executive chairman of Purplebricks, Paul Pindar, is set to invest a seven figure sum in...

The Sun reports that a British estate agent spent three weeks in jail in Dubai after sending a highly critical WhatsApp...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...