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A new analysis of buyers’ actions during viewings suggests many effectively ignore the truly important features, and are instead distracted by...

A consumer group and a removals firm claims to have identified the busiest day of the year for house moves -...

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

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

Home-moving platform the GoTo Group has been announced as a key partner of the Relocation Agent Network (RAN). RAN agents will gain...

Buyer demand and new sales at the start of 2024 are already ahead of equivalent 2023 levels, Zoopla. Figures from the portal...

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

OnTheMarket (OTM) can still pursue its original aims of challenging the duopoly in the property portal market, its chief executive Jason...

On Halloween eve, Safestyle decided to give everyone a real fright and announced the company had gone into administration. This has...

Record numbers of homebuyers are set to get on the property ladder with the help of the “Bank of Family” this...

Two new companies have joined the Residential Logbook Association’s (RLBA)integration programme. Home move tracking platform adoor has integrated with the RLBA register...

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has warned it is receiving “too many complaints” about breaches of undertakings by solicitors. The regulator...

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

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the feature of the Lifesycle CRM, and its importance...

Semi-detached houses are currently the fastest-selling type of property in the UK, research suggests. Analysis of 101,126 house sale transactions by home...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heather Staff and it says Co-Founder of Street Group...

THE grounding of foreign travel during successive lockdowns meant many employers were saved from the stress of dealing with holiday requests...

Reapit has acquired agency software provider Inspect Real Estate (IRE). The service, already used by more than 3,000 real estate customers to...

Mortgage lenders may have been grabbing the headlines in recent weeks with rates below 4% but a broker has warned this...

The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is the direct result of European Legislation. They were introduced because of the Energy Performance of...

The level of new listings coming to market is at its weakest since the end of the 2021 Stamp Duty holiday,...

Tracking mortgage rates may be more fruitful for buyers than following house price data, a property expert claims. Tom Bill, head of...

Inside this short article, my goal is to simply highlight the four most common mistakes l see from reviewing agents' Google Ad...

Many experts are predicting that house price growth will slow for the remainder of the year as the cost of living...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

Accessibility to charging facilities is becoming an increasingly important factor for home buyers in affluent neighbourhoods where electric vehicle adoption is...

Agency proptech supplier Muuvo has partnered with Canopy to provide its RentPassport and RentTracking products. Muuvo provides software for agents to help...

The outgoing chief executive of Rightmove has claimed he has a good relationship with the portal’s customers. It was announced this week...

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

A shift is occurring in the rental market across the UK. The Government is planning to reform the sector with increased...

For all sales and letting agents, accelerating your business to new heights is a number one priority. You can’t be losing time...

Well-known property expert and video interviewer Chris Watkin independently investigates how one piece of software is having such a big effect...

Online agency easyProperty - which says it has a mission to transform the way people sell their home - has signed...

Boomin is launching a new ad campaign from Boxing Day, December 26 - the date previously associated with record visits to...

Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...

Rightmove will launch its latest outdoor campaign on Monday, with advertisements in over 1,000 roadside and rail locations remaining in place...

Fledgling portal Boomin has published figures - but not the long-awaited ones about its users or agents.   Instead, it’s released data...

The housing market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007 for transactions and house price inflation says Zoopla.  The...

A leading planning consultancy has claimed that ‘the myth’ that housing developers are hoarding land after gaining planning consent in order...

A PropTech operator claims that agents currently pay around £250 per lead, averaging costs of different sources ranging from Google Ads...

Available residential property listings across the country are at historic lows according to property data firm Homesearch. The company, which focuses its...

Demand for all types of houses, from terraced to detached, has more than doubled in the current housing market - creating...

Hello and welcome to another ADC, the weekly wrap of good work by the industry. You probably know the score by now...

Zoopla has unveiled new features which it says will deliver more value to agents. In-Search Ads gives agents and housebuilders the option...

Three of the leading portals have made major announcements as the fierce rivalry between the big players continues apace.  Firstly Zoopla claims its latest...

Online agency Strike has used specialist eye-tracking software to analyse what attracts a buyer’s attention when scrolling through homes online — and...

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

Hello and welcome to the end of another week - and a step in the right direction towards the easing of...

The Bruce brothers’ latest project, Boomin, is “ready to launch” some two months after it was expected to see the light...

A report drawn up by a software firm analyses sales, lettings and valuation leads from agents listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and...

REACH, a programme encouraging start-ups in the property world, has released a list of UK companies that will feature in its...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

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

The London sales market is slowing as Christmas nears but no significant impact has been caused by the second wave of...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

Shorter days and darker nights deflate the spirits, especially in today’s challenging circumstances, but there’s some bright news - a large...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

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

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

One of the most prominent companies involved in identifying and treating Japanese Knotweed has recruited a new member of the team...

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

A PropTech platform that aims to lock-in sellers and buyers via a mutually agreed reservation agreement system is being offered free...

The investment bank UBS says it’s forecasting that Rightmove revenues will be down £53m in the first half of this year. “The...

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does it...

A new call has been issued this morning by the Competition and Markets Authority for estate agents to confess if their...

A PropTech company says the majority of transactions now involve chains and that the issue is becoming more problematic for agents...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

Although property transactions have, unsurprisingly, recently seen a decline which is almost certainly in part due to the ‘B-word’, this doesn’t...

Property management service Move with Us has announced a new partnership with chain management service View My Chain. Move with Us, founded...

There are those who say that PropTech is at risk of becoming a bubble market, and others who say bubbles don’t...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

Savills says it’s not commenting on whether it will list on Zoopla in the future. Last week Knight Frank - which in...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

My experience in marketing over the last 10 years has been an interesting journey, however I don’t want to bore you...

Conveyancing platform The Moving Hub has this week launched its proposition into the estate agency and mortgage intermediary sectors. The firm is...

Savills has been named the winner of the real estate agents/advisor league table in the UK Business Superbrand list for the...

By the time you read this article, I’ll be in Nigeria. My first ever visit to the continent of Africa. Sitting here...

Fresh data from a PropTech firm suggests that 'conveyancer absenteeism' is causing severe delays to property transactions. When You Move reports that...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

It’s no secret that technology has changed the way businesses operate, in all sectors. With that has come changes to the...

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

A service that tracks different types of mortgage demand reveals that remortgaging is on the rise while borrowing for new purchases...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

With reports continuing to focus on a slowing property market and an understanding that not enough properties are being marketed for...

Three weeks has flown by (I missed an early deadline last week - apologies) and I find myself writing the next...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who shared and commented on my first blog and for all those that emailed me...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

A chain tracking platform claims a trial by Leaders Group during 2017 shows its sales progression tool improving completion times by...

The housing market remains flat as it heads towards 2018 according to the latest snapshot survey by the Royal Institution of...

Another attempt to create an automated conveyancing system has been launched with the claim that it will banish paper trails and...

Activity in the conveyancing market dropped significantly during the second quarter of the year, according to Search Acumen. The search provider found...

I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told you so’…but I told you so! It seems that my predictions...

The housing market is approaching something of a standstill as the summer holiday season begins according to a downbeat report from...

A study using ‘eye-tracking’ technology has revealed what prospective buyers pay most attention to during viewings and shows critical differences between...