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Ceredigion estate agent Cardigan Bay Properties has been recognised as one of the top start-ups in the UK. The brand overcame competition...

Former LSL boss David Newnes has invested in legal technology startup Collaborative Conveyancing. The brand is currently developing artificial intelligence tools to...

New data shows that a large majority of compliance professionals are worried about the crypto-currency related money laundering. The survey, which gathered...

Proptech startup Giraffe360 has introduced a new sales and marketing feature that helps agents create auto-generated videos. Every property that has been...

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

Industry veteran Eddie Goldsmith has revealed why solicitors may sometimes have to “fob-off” estate agents and how to get around it. Goldsmith,...

A proptech startup launched by former Conveyancing Association chairman Eddie Goldsmith has secured a second round of investment. YouConvey, which aims to...

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...

The property industry and its many stakeholders are key participants in a global digital transformation that has been underway for quite...

Tech, as has been shown more than ever during the pandemic, can be a wonderful thing – bringing people closer together,...

One of the highest profile supporters of the online estate agency concept has quit the company he founded. Akshay Ruparelia, who is...

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

The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...

Knight Frank is investing an undisclosed sum in a venture capital firm specialising in PropTech. The money is going into a European...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

Here at Giraffe360, the PropTech startup, we have raised a £3.5 million funding round to further accelerate our product development and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lee Rix - Head of Business Development What is ‘company name’...

A new PropTech startup is giving prospective buyers the opportunity to receive due diligence at a fraction of the time and...

An overview of the global PropTech sector is often what I am asked to cover at conferences around the world. This generally...

One of the leading ‘new breed’ of hybrids relying on self-employed agents is opening a share offer to investors in a...

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

Last week, it was announced that Plentific, the London-based tenant experience, has raised $32 million in Series B funding. Plentific’s model sees...

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

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

I want to take the time this week to talk about PropTech startups and how they can often be seen to...

News this week tells of Zehomes, the German property management company, raising €13 million in Series-A funding, bringing its all-time total...

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

The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today. It's the time of the week when you can catch up with...

It’s been a busy year for Giraffe360. Following its £1 million successful funding round in January and moving its headquarters from...

The new owners of Emoov have confirmed that 70 previous customers have opted to re-list their homes with the firm since it...

This week, I want to take a look at the Israeli startup, Venn, an urban revitalisation firm which has recently received...

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

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

It’s London Tech Week, everybody! The sprawling city-wide event taking in dozens of conferences, events, workshops, panel debates and so on,...

“You say tomato, I say tomato” is a line in a famous film score way back in the 1937 film Shall...

In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch up with Angelica Donati - CEO of Donati Immobiliare Group, PropTech...

In today’s crowded property marketplace, the needs of tenants have changed. With a greater emphasis on quality of living, tenants are increasingly...

My article last week has sparked some really great engagement, which I’m delighted about!  Thank you to everyone who commented or dropped...

A PropTech firm that lists a customer’s home with successive estate agents until it is sold has raised £500,000 of startup...

Whether it is legacy providers with new, young businesses, or large banks with PropTech startups, all types of cross-collaboration are vital. It’s...

This article was originally written for City AM in response to an article it published attacking letting agents. See more here.  A...

One of the largest investors in Purplebricks has now joined forces with an off-shoot of luxury car firm Porsche to launch...

This month’s MIPIM conference in Cannes once again played host to the final round of the much coveted MIPIM Startup Competition.  The...

A couple of weeks ago, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million investment injection into Clutter, the US-based on-demand storage...

Who are you? Mikus Opelts, CEO of Giraffe360 What is Giraffe360 and what does it do? Giraffe360 is a unique digital photography subscription service...

No doubt we’ve all seen the recent Purplebricks news - shares have, according to the BBC, ‘plunged after it slashed its...

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

By thinking outside the box, agents can truly embrace the idea of space-as-a-service and create entirely new, and highly valuable, streams...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

In the past year it seems every other story has been about PropTech - the big stuff like Purplebricks and the...

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

There’s to be the first-ever Residential Agent Zone at next year’s FUTURE PropTech event to be held on May 14. The zone will...

Today’s long-awaited debate staged by fledgling PropTech platform Best Agent will address the issue of how the agency industry can most...

Propteq Global Property Technology and Innovation summit takes place in London on 26 - 27 Sep. 75 of the world's leading...

DISCLAIMER: The author of this article retains no responsibility for any reader discomfort experienced when recalling the seemingly endless horrors of...

Zoopla Property Group's founder and chief executive, Alex Chesterman, is to step back from day to day operations at the end...

An upcoming event will see a panel of well-known agents and suppliers appeal for better collaboration between industry stakeholders, particularly CRM...

I received a press release yesterday - one of many that get sent my way - and, as I always do,...

My eye was caught yesterday morning by news that PropTech company, Agent Software, is claiming that ‘some agencies deliberately over-value properties...

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

Before I get into the nitty gritty of the government (well, one of its startup accelerator schemes) giving away £20,000, let...

Having recently attended FUTURE: PropTech in London, it struck me just how far the integration of property and technology has progressed...

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

A leading agent has urged major portals Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket to feature virtual viewings content more prominently on their platforms. Writing...

Firstly, my sincere apologies - it has now been over a month since my last PropTech blog, doesn’t time fly!  In the...

A PropTech startup which claims to revolutionise the speed at which property transactions can be processed has officially launched this week. When...

Respected industry spokesperson Kristjan Byfield is continuing his fightback against the negative coverage of the agency industry in the mainstream press...

Two online agents and a number of PropTech companies have been named in startups.co.uk's Startups 100 index. Coming in at number 64...

There is a lull in my imminent flat sale. Just no activity at all, despite a price reduction!  So, I am forced...

Smart sensors, and smart technology as a whole, are enjoying a period of accelerated innovation and adoption.  It’s my opinion that such...

Greetings from Cannes, where the sun is finally shining over MIPIM. I’m sure many of you are out here, too, and...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

I have high expectations for this year’s PropTech events and property conferences.  Those that I attended in 2017 demonstrated a real step...

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

For a while now, property and technology have been combining seamlessly to offer the industry innovative solutions to often complex problems....

Two UK online estate agencies have been named in a list of the world’s top 50 real estate start-ups to watch...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

A new portal called Housemap has launched and says it is free to agents. It’s a clean, attractive looking portal which already...

Online property platform Settled, which claims its customers receive their first offer in an average of 17 days, has announced two...

Last week was MIPIM PropTech Summit 2017 in New York, and it was the most oversubscribed to date - proof of the...

90% of PropTech’s work is good and vital, but that final ten has the potential to damage the rest. In my Sunday...

When Kenneth Bruce, co-founder of Purplebricks, published an emotional post on social media this week, my first reaction was; what a...

The founder of a new online sales assistance service says agents are often unfairly blamed by the public for failings in...

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

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...

Even if you didn’t watch it, you’ve almost certainly heard about it by now.  The recent BBC Watchdog exposé of Purplebricks has...

You may have heard that Airbnb and property management company, Lavanda has closed a £1 million angel investment round.  Backers include Purplebricks...

London estate agency Marsh & Parsons has announced that its sales director Liza-Jane Kelly has taken the decision to leave after...

Viewber, the outsourced property viewing service and brainchild of high-profile former estate agent Ed Mead, says its network of 'Viewbers' now...

This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...

As Trussle and Placester add to 2017s bonkers tally of PropTech investment, isn’t it time we end the conflict between Tech...

This week I’m lucky enough to be out here in Cannes as a PropTech Ambassador for MIPIM, the international real estate...

London based property management startup Airsorted has raised £1.5m in a funding round led by Concetric and the ever present PiLabs.  What...

Digital mortgage broker habito has announced that it has raised £5.5 million in investment funding.  The firm says it will use the...

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

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced that it has invested in a soon-to-launch PropTech startup. The group, which now owns uSwitch and...