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Homeowners are becoming more concerned about property fraud, research suggests. A freedom of information request has shown a 26% increase in the number...

A new house price forecast by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, reveals that recent optimism in the UK property market could...

TV property guru, Move iQ founder and Estate Agent Today columnist Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

As most of the regular readers of this column will know (and because I’m not shy about admitting it) – I’ve...

Large language models, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, and 'the singularity' change everything, but there again, they change literally...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Graham Paterson. If I had a business card it would probably...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

Prestige and Village, the premium property agency firm, are continuing their drive to recruit more estate agents as part of their...

An artificial intelligence-powered property due diligence platform that is popular in the commercial market has raised £7.5m to help expand into...

Agency brands including Hamptons and Savills as well as property developer London Square have sponsored gardens at this week’s Chelsea Flower...

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

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics this week. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel as though I’m being bombarded...

Estate agents have the challenging job of creating relationships and trust with their customers, who will make crucial life decisions such...

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events, has compiled a guide to submitting an offer and exchanging contracts, to help buyers...

Agents have been celebrating some of the top fundraising exploits of the past 12 months but the activity continues. Remember, if you...

Automation is the direction the industry is moving in and it’s gathering pace every day. Forward-thinking agents are using automation and...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity, the weekly round up of fund-raising in our industry. Once more our thoughts are...

There’s been an update this morning on the dramatic systems crash that has hit the conveyancing services operated by the Simplify...

The last few months have seen property agents work hard to continue delivering quality client communications and maintain an increasingly digital...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

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

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

After you. No, after you. That is often how innovation seems amongst the real estate elite. And this week I see it...

Property sales take a seriously long time to complete. There are a number of reasons for this, although often delays are...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

I was giving an interview this week for an upcoming conference - yet another to convert from a physical to a...

I was asked a question by a German journalist yesterday. What is the biggest lesson German and European PropTech founders can...

We live in uncertain times. That I do not need to say to anybody. I am writing this piece aboard my...

This week I fly to Spain to present at a conference called Immotechnia. I am opening the conference with a 45-minute...

It’s beginning to look a lot like…we’re running a very popular service for agents, as we’ve been inundated with more fund-raising...

Election time means setting out your stall and getting support - so how about a vote of confidence for those agents,...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - no surprises there. And it’s not...

News broke last weekend of a further online estate agency casualty as letting agent Upad announced on its website that it...

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...

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

Hello there - if it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity, and as we prepare for a hot weekend for Glastonbury revellers...

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

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over,” is an oft-quoted saying of Richard...

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

And so summer draws to a close. The slow, lazy months of July and August have come to pass and the...

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

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Only a week to the Christmas break and still our industry goes above and beyond the call of duty to raise...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

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Let Mid West Displays get your window in shape! Never underestimate the power of high street presence. Image is everything, and what...

Search the internet and you will find a multitude of articles claiming that upgrading a property with green improvements can add...