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Artificial Intelligence will not be taking over people’s jobs any time soon, as machine learning is trainable only with human input.  The...

Last year was not one for the faint hearted. Now, at last, the market appears to be experiencing a gradual uptick. Recent...

Proptech – it’s a people thing. It might seem like a strange thing to say but the best of tech is a...

The stats on the slowing market are widely known, but a slowdown is by no means doom and gloom – it’s...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

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

Determined first-time buyers are cutting back on going out and energy usage to still be able to save up for a...

Does the lettings industry cater properly for agents' needs? There’s only one way of knowing – asking you directly. To find out...

Purplebricks chief financial officer (CFO) Steve Long is to leave the online agent after just a year in the role. The beleaguered...

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

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

It was announced back in February this year that PEXA, the Australian FinTech/PropTech that enabled the world’s first fully digitised property settlement...

During the summer holidays, your home is left susceptible to opportunistic thieves. Despite this rise in threat, data found that only...

Thanks to a relentless market, the property market has enjoyed a purple patch over the past few years. But now that...

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

Property blockchain network Coadjute has launched a research project to identify ways estate agents and conveyancers can improve their working relationship. It...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

Data, when used to its full potential, holds the key to the property market’s growth. The reason for this is the...

An agency that operates across and around Bristol is the latest to declare its commitment to go carbon neutral. The associate director...

A claims firm wants to commence proceedings against online estate agency companies such as Purplebricks and Yopa. It's on behalf of thousands...

If there is one thing that modern consumers have come to expect, it’s convenience. As a nation, we’re driven by on-demand...

The Competititon and Markets Authority says it’s to look into reviews on Google and Amazon, and see whether the online giants...

I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on sale for well over £2m. The imagery was good (made better by...

Agent websites have become more crucial than ever in attracting new business. Consumers are more informed and doing more research online...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

Tech is a fantastic enabler but should never be a complete replacement for the human interactions that add real value to...

Our recent state of the property nation survey, which yielded nearly 350 responses from directors to junior negotiators, and many others...

First off, happy Good Friday to all our readers. Here’s to a great, if still slightly different, long Easter bank holiday...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

You could be forgiven for overlooking International Women’s Day on Monday. Well, almost. Focus was instead turned to the first day back...

As a property agent, fancy marketing terminology such as ‘omnichannel’ might not hold too much interest for you right now. We’re in...

Industry supplier Kerfuffle and high-profile training service Marvellous have launched a competition for the children of agents and suppliers. The kids are...

Let’s address the elephant in the room first - the property sector and how we market properties is changing. Gone are the...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

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

Community spirit is definitely alive and well in the Midlands where people have gone above and beyond to support a local...

Free to list portal Residential People is launching a new cloud-based platform which it says will help agents use Amazon-style technology...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

Moving home is emotionally fraught. Buyers and sellers will get upset and unfortunately some people will take it out on you....

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

Book review by Graham Norwood, editor of Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and Landlord Today. If a letting agent wants to...

Property technology company OneDome, which operates two portals - OneDome and Nethouseprices - has raised another £5m in funding.  It says it...

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

Hello and welcome to the weekend and that means a charity-fix for all those agents and suppliers doing great fund-raising in these...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

As you know, having professional images of your properties is the best (only?) way to get people wanting to step through...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Joanne (Jo) Tattum. Channel Manager - Property What is Moneypenny and...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says agents are “miles behind” in using digital information to provide a personalised service.  Vic Darvey has given...

A book, written by Gary Kasparov, has really made me question my opinions on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book is called...

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

We are facing a new world in the lettings industry, with the proportion of households in the private rented sector (PRS)...

Yes, you can promise yourself that you won't eat all the mince pies, or yet another roast potato, nor drink as...

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

In a revival of the Natter’s day in the life of series, I catch up with Rajeev Nayyar, managing director of...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

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

One of the most experienced and high profile figures in the industry says individual agents working for online companies are typically...

Purplebricks has revealed its annual results for the year ending April 30 2019.  The hybrid agency has posted an operating loss of...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

In recent years click & collect has become a popular way for retailers, supermarkets and online shopping sites such as Amazon...

Purplebricks has been named one of Britain’s ‘most relevant’ brands to consumers. The agency came in 13th in a list of...

It’s a testing time for the property industry, amid Brexit fears, a slowing market and the looming tenant fees ban.  There’s no...

When they first came onto the scene, online-only estate and lettings agents were predicted to swiftly spell the end for traditional...

Former City analyst Anthony Codling - who is now the front-man for a new property portal - has set out why...

For my final EAT contribution of 2018, I’ve put together a list of Christmas gifts that you could buy your PropTech-loving...

There is a perfect storm brewing in the lettings market, and as the saying goes, “you can’t change the direction of...

In his keynote speech at the recent Negotiator Conference, Professor Andrew Baum sparked debate throughout the property industry. Baum’s speech, which began...

Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman - who sold the portal company for more than £2.2 billion to US private equity fund Silver...

A platform that allows individual private sellers and landlords to list their properties alongside those from professional agents says it’s not...

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

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

The culture of impatience and instant gratification has a lot to answer for. It has forced the hand of the property...

The chief executive of Emoov, Russell Quirk, has suggested that the unexpectedly low take up of online agents may mean that...

A few stories caught my eye this week from China, all of which announce the arrival of cutting-edge technological innovation in...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

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

Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...

Location, Location, Location: it’s no coincidence the TV show seized on that title because the importance of a property’s position is...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...

A property technology analyst has floated the idea that portals could become eclipsed by powerful alternatives such as Google, triggered by...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

The story of this week - the ousting of Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt - prompts two key questions. Firstly, who takes...

It may be a stunt to drive book sales or it may be a true-life expose of what really goes on...

A new book written by a PropTech expert and assessing the state of the industry has hit the Amazon best sellers’...

Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...

Online estate agency YOPA - well known recently for advertisements featuring the Village People - is this evening launching a new...

Once upon a time there were estate agents. That was it. Nice and simple. If you marketed and sold residential property,...

Facebook appears to be interested in entering the sales and lettings world with its first advertising product geared solely towards industry professionals. The...

A new report reveals how clients’ reviews and star ratings - used by many online estate agents in particular - are...

It’s not happening here (yet) but several articles on US websites have started talking up the possibility of Amazon going into...

To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...