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The vast majority of negligence claims against conveyancers are for relatively low sums of money, but the financial and reputational costs...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...

Property data in the UK is mined from a labyrinth of sources such as local authorities, various government departments and private...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

The well-being of property industry professionals has taken its toll with the economic downturn and cost-of-living crisis, with over a third...

At the recent Home Buying & Selling Group UFI Roadshow in London, it was gratifying to note that panel members and...

A year-long pilot of using upfront material Information by conveyancer Thomas Legal and search provider Conveyancing Data Services, a part of...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

Hearing a lot about integration and wondering what it all means for your firm? Don’t panic. Take a look at what Paul...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

Having just had an appointment popped into my diary by my car as it apparently told the garage it’s due a...

Only 11% of property businesses including estate agencies increased staff pay last year, a new report officially launched next week claims. Property...

For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...

I am somewhat disappointed, yet not surprised, when I see the headlines ‘blaming’ various fractions of a property transaction as the...

High profile agents and industry executives are due to appear in a new video series to share best practice ideas online. The...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

Estate agents are being urged to reassess their fee structure and not be afraid to reflect the time and level of...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

Ben Ridgway and Jamie Cooke, co-founders of iamproperty Group brought together industry leaders in a recent roundtable to discuss the challenges...

PropTech supplier tmgroup is to hold a six-part webinar series called Achieving Change: Think tomorrow, act today. The webinars - from linked...

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

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the release of the mio chain view API. Now, all the parties...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is vital, and sales progression is more important than ever. Emma Vigus, Managing...

As we emerge from lockdown, quickly progressing sales to completion is vital to replace lost commission income.  What role can mio...

Your business may be growing quicker than you could ever imagine which is great when it comes to raising brand awareness....

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio What is mio and what...

Here at sales progression and communication tool mio, we recently caught up with Sarah Edmundson, co-director of The AllStars Group, the...

Ashleigh Thwaites, Branch Manager at Emersons Green, Taylors shares how mio has transformed her approach to sales progression by making it...

One month on from introducing sales progression and communication tool, mio, to her branch in Chippenham (Wiltshire), Michelle Hallas, Residential Sales...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Eric Woodhams F.N.A.E.A. mio Account Manager What is mio and what...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

A new sales progression tool that claims to have been hugely successful over an 18-month pilot is being rolled out across...

Two PropTech suppliers have this week announced new partnerships and products with the aim of helping estate agents.  Firstly, sales progression and...

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

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

Boy it‘s hot out there, with little end in sight yet. That’s the good news. Now the even better news -...