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Software platform Alto Marketplace says it now has no fewer than 16 integrations across 13 categories including anti-money laundering, buyer onboarding...

A war of words is escalating between OnTheMarket owner CoStar and its rival Realtor.com in the US. It comes as CoStar was...

As we move into the second half of the year, the property market is looking buoyant. Demand and supply are most...

Tell us a little bit about National Home Move. We are a network of more than 60 Your Move and Reeds Rains...

In the fast-evolving world of property, where every click counts and every search matters, mastering the art of Search Engine Optimisation...

The fast-growing high profile Hat and Home agency has joined the Guild of Property Professionals. Founded in December 2020, Hat and Home...

The world of PR can feel like a crowded marketplace, where shouting your message the loudest doesn't guarantee anyone hears it....

Buyers and sellers should focus on their own local market rather than national house price indices, the chief executive of Properytmark...

Fine & Country has partnered with James Edition, a marketplace for international luxury real estate.  This strategic collaboration will help Fine &...

More than a third of property professionals view the Spring Budget as an opportunity to boost new build and the first-time...

Kerfuffle has finalised the acquisition of agency reviews platform View Agents. With the acquisition of Kerfuffle founder Simon Whale said the brand’s...

OnTheMarket has a “puncher’s chance” of displacing Rightmove after the challenger portal was taken over by CoStar but needs to persuade...

We’re now just 2 days away from the end of 2023 and what a year it’s been for the property industry....

Agency software provider Alto is set to share an update with agents on what it has delivered in 2023 in a...

In this interview, Riccardo Dawson, Chief Operating Officer at Alto and Chris Hutchinson, CEO of Canopy discuss the benefits of their...

The potential takeover of OnTheMarket (OTM) by US property giant CoStar Group could finally provide a viable challenger for Rightmove, it...

Foxtons has regained its position as London’s number one agent in Guy Gittins’ first year as chief executive. Former Chestertons boss Gittins...

Bamboo Auctions has been integrated into the Alto Marketplace. The tool will helps agents identify which properties are right for auction and...

Agency software provider Alto has launched a new Partner Hub for proptech firms. The Zoopla-backed brand said proptech firms will be able...

Well as week’s come and go, this one’s been a bit of a downer but it is always worth remembering that...

By Michele Gettins, Chief Marketing Officer at iamproperty Data is a powerful tool and understanding how to successfully identify and utilise reliable...

Estate agents are invited to the second in a series of Tech Talks this month hosted by proptech brand iamproperty. The latest...

Agents may hate portal fees but have ranked property websites such as Rightmove and Zoopla as their most important digital asset. A...

AVRillo is seeking agents to help test a new product that aims to provide upfront material information to buyers at the...

London agent Chestertons has signed a deal with Forbes Global Properties, giving it access to its worldwide reach and audience of...

Fine & Country has unveiled details of its 2023 International conference and awards ceremony The upmarket agent brand will hold its annual...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

We spent some time with Lucy Noonan, Founder and CEO of Atomic Consultancy, to pick her brains about the many moving...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) is to host its first industry exhibition. Titled Grow your Agency in 23, the...

Making predictions for the year ahead is notoriously difficult and leaves me open to having egg on my face, but I’m...

The ValPal Network's (TVPN) services have generated 1.4m leads for agents over the past 12 months – with most coming outside...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

The rise of online and low-fee offerings has devalued the expertise that estate agents can offer, an industry trainer claims. Responding to...

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

Estate agents need to concentrate on quality marketing more than ever before as mortgage interest rates rise and lenders become ever...

OnTheMarket (OTM) is not currently aiming to overtake Rightmove or Zoopla but has succeeded in reducing listing fees for agents across...

Now that the industry has had the weekend to digest Kwasi Kwarteng’s short and dramatic mini-Budget, more reaction has been filtering...

The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...

In this piece, Nathan Emerson, CEO of Propertymark, discusses how the trade body is working to ensure member agents get the best of...

Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to fix other people's problems than your own? Whether it is resolving a friend's...

For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...

Agents have nothing to fear from a market slowdown, an industry executive claims. Nick Ball, head of sales and client services at...

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

The digital transformation of the property industry is not a new chapter, but an ongoing journey in which the winners are...

Today’s consumers judge a business not just on the quality of its products, but also on their experience in using them....

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

With new and exciting PropTech solutions approaching the market, Nathan Emerson, CEO of Propertymark, discusses some of their relevance and whether...

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

The property recruitment market seems to be moving as fast as house prices. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

Agents will be able to grill Rightmove’s legal and compliance director David Cox this morning as part of the portal’s webinar...

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

Without doubt, 2021 was an exceptional year in the property market, with the stamp duty holiday and favourable market conditions helping...

Do you have an 'open API'? We use 'X' who have an 'open API' so we would need you to integrate with...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

Relocation Agent Network, the network of primarily independent agencies, says it’s looking at global options for growth thanks to its relationship...

The scheme behind two of this country’s most successful PropTech start-ups is marking what it calls a successful first year.  REACH UK...

We have been speaking with many agents over the past months and the story appears the same with them all. There...

An estate agent has been ‘marketing properties so well’ in a Worcestershire town that it has temporarily ‘sold out’ of all...

Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...

Michael Bruce says the new SmartVal automated valuation system he is this month introducing on Boomin will be the most accurate...

Apart from a buoyant market, high transaction levels, and consumer confidence in the property market, one considerable additional benefit which has...

A new service launched over the weekend, proposing to charge buyers £30 for a “guaranteed” viewing, has split opinions amongst estate...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

Veteran agent and property consultant Dominic Grace, who recently left Savills after 37 years, is to take up a new role...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Matt Ratliff, Chief Technology Officer of Sort Group. How has your...

Working from home used to get a bad rap. With the phrase mocked as ‘shirking from home’, homeworkers were often seen...

easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has given his personal backing to the newest recruit of online agency easyProperty - even though...

In the first of our revamped PropTech Today series - which will see six industry experts discussing a range of issues...

A league table of the most important issues facing vendors places the scale of estate agents’ charges at the bottom - and this...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am Mark Armstrong, and my business card says...

The last 12 months have heralded significant change across the property market and indeed we could argue across all markets in...

In my previous Estate Agent Today feature, I endeavoured to explain the key differences between APIs and Apps, to help improve...

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

Free-to-list portal OneDome has signed up the 55 branch agency network Chancellors. The agency will consequently list all of its residential sales...

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

Challenger portal OneDome has signed up one of the larger UK agencies, the Leaders Romans Group. LRG will list all its residential sales...

OneDome says it’s seen a surge in consumer activity in 2021, culminating in its two websites growing to a combined visitor...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

The ‘future of residential’ is a huge term to contend with but one that was addressed last week through our RE:Connect...

Entrants for the 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards have only until December 31 to sign up. Founder Simon Brown says: “The bounce...

Many independents will be based in the capital, but given its size and breadth they may get drowned out even more...

The design quality of new homes and neighbourhoods across the UK remains stubbornly low, according to a new report by academics.  The...

Who are you? Hi, I’m Richard Price, Managing Director at Dezrez. Who are Dezrez and what EACRM do you provide? At Dezrez we’re on...

The agency industry may look back on this year and say: “Well...to be honest we didn’t really see it coming.” No, no,...

Rezi’s integration with Zapier has transformed the way in which estate agents can now save time, money and resource. Agents are...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

Residential People, one of many free-to-list platforms in the hectic portal marketplace, is set to launch which it calls its “AI...

As you may have seen over the weekend, the long-running Property Natter column – penned by Angels Media chief executive, Nat...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its new Home Survey Standard will be implemented from March and will represent a...

The 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards are to be held on Friday June 11. For the first time the awards will host...

The proliferation of free and accessible digital services has - at face value - brought us many great things: same-day deliveries,...

One of the growing number of free to list property portals, Residential People, claims a record-breaking number of sales and letting...

PropertyHeads, a portal which describes itself as the industry’s social network, has sold a three per cent stake partly to raise funds...

A new customer service award category at The ESTAS will see agency networks competing against each other for the first time.  Networks...

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

For a mixture of reasons, I now only write this column every two weeks. At first, I missed the weekly consideration...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

It must have been a close thing on Friday as to whose faces were looking the most glum - those at...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

A new PropTech platform says its central feature will be the launch of a Multiple Listings Service.  This will allow agents “to...