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Under the strain of a housing crisis, the UK faces a severe shortage of affordable homes. This is further emphasised by...

Fintech firm CLSQ has launched a tool to give mortgage lenders access to real-time Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data. The product, called...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property portal Jitty has now expanded to Bristol and the surrounding areas. The app said it clocked over 3,000...

A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property portal has launched its app with an initial focus on Bath. The brand, called Jitty, aims...

Fintech firm Phoebus has joined UK trade body the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) as an associate member. The brand provides systems and...

Digital transformation is now happening at a monumental pace, and dependence on technology is growing to new heights. In fact, the...

Deliveroo may have revolutionised the way we order takeaways and now three former executives from the delivery app have set their...

Mortgage brokers are trying to get lenders to sign up to a 24-hour Product Withdrawal Pledge in efforts to keep the...

As a property market expert, I have been closely monitoring the challenges faced by the housing market, particularly the issue of...

A company aiming to “disrupt the conventional homebuying space” has raised £8m in a Series A equity funding round. Wayhome offers a...

Fintech firm Twenty7tec has acquired mortgage affordability platform Broker Sense for an undisclosed sum. Broker Sense, founded by Stuart Phillips and Mark...

Two thirds of the housing market is potentially cut off from homebuyers who are in a chain, new research claims. A report...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

Despite all the recent speculation surrounding the housing market after the badly-received mini-Budget and regular talk of a possible slowdown, new...

A new lender is preparing to enter the mortgage market with long-dated fixed rate mortgages in a move seen by some...

An Australian FinTech which this year entered the UK market has outlined the e-conveyancing lessons that the UK property industry can...

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

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

Knight Frank agents can now donate to charity as they spend with a new company benefit. The agency brand has partnered with...

A former chairman of challenger bank Monzo has joined OneDome’s board. Tim Brooke Thom has been appointed as non-executive director of the challenger...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

I’ve worked in financial crime for the past seven years, beginning my career as a white collar crime litigator in a law firm. I know that the...

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

Two prominent estate agencies are amongst those piloting a new financial product that allows aspiring buyers to purchase property with just...

A company says it will fund first time buyers’ bids to get on the property ladder by matching them with property...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, technology has proven to be the answer for many problems faced by sectors across...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

Banking has gone through radical changes in the past few years, in step with technology and the sheer amount we can...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

Recently, when giving speeches, I have discussed investment trends and industry trends that the built environment is experiencing. They are quite...

Hello and welcome to the new working week. Here’s the latest information on key hires across our industry: if you have similar...

I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

Today is one month since the government lifted restrictions on agents and the housing market - and since that time the...

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

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2020 - and we’ve plenty to report even with the New...

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

We’ve reached the final instalment of my market transformation do’s and don’ts.  In previous articles, we’ve looked at: Do encourage, don’t deter;...

Countrywide has named a senior businesswoman as chair of its controversial remuneration committee which was at the centre of a row...

Interesting news this week from South Africa where the PropTech startup, Flow, has raised R20m in the country’s 'biggest PropTech seed...

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

Since January 2018, nine of the UK’s biggest banks have allowed competitors direct access to customer data as part of the...

A ‘disruptor’ tech company claims that large numbers of people are dissastisfied with the conveyancing element of house moves, with many...

Trussle, which describes itself as the UK’s first online mortgage broker, has won £13.6m in financing from international investors led by...

Countrywide is not quite finished with online experimentation yet, for today sees the launch of an online mortgage service, backed by...

Google, under the command of parent company, Alphabet, has set its sights on building the world’s first digital city, in Toronto,...

On behalf of The University of Oxford, Professor Andrew Baum has overseen the compiling of an academic study of the PropTech...

News was released this week of a new PropTech partnership: banking disrupter Revolut has joined up with mortgage brokerage, Trussle, to offer...

There has been some really interesting talk recently of the relationship between FinTech (Finance Technology) and PropTech (Property Technology). A few...

The first week of February has seen some extraordinary goings on in the property sector, from which two stories particularly stand out...

Carpe diem, seize the day – whatever you call it, it’s something all of us in the property industry should be looking...

One of the key factors associated with an active private rental market in the UK, as detailed in the Dataloft PRS...

What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in no particular order: Trump, Brexit, Leicester winning the Premier League, a...