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The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

The latest Voice of the Agent industry survey is set for release on 15 April. Marketing firm We Are Unchained surveyed 841...

Most agents agree that providing upfront information at the very start of the homebuying process would improve the buying and selling...

The property industry is no stranger to shifts in the technology landscape. The past year in particular saw rapid growth in technology...

The Government recently consulted upon a revised approach to local plans. Throughout the consultation document, frequent use is made of the...

2023 was coined as the ‘year of AI adoption’ and, after trickling into almost every industry, AI has taken centre stage...

The chairman of the Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has queried the relevance of a new Government-backed property group focused on digital...

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...

Barriers to entry are a big concern for any sector, particularly those who need a greater number of technology innovations to...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has said he is looking forward to building a “new force” in the property industry after...

Search Acumen has announced a new partnership that aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in conveyancing Property data, insight...

2023 has been coined as ‘the year of AI adoption’, and with this technology trickling down to almost every sector, its...

Having just had an appointment popped into my diary by my car as it apparently told the garage it’s due a...

In recent weeks, the big buzzword across all industries has been AI, as it has the real potential to transform the...

The only certainty at the moment is that we are living in a period of uncertainty. The challenges facing the property...

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

For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...

Digital transformation is not a new concept. It has been around for many years in various forms and across multiple industries,...

A recent study conducted by the Technical University of Denmark reported that the attention span of people around the world is...

In the current challenging economic environment, agencies need to ensure more than ever that they’re getting the most out of every...

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...

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

Anti-money laundering platform Credas Technologies has become one of the first companies of its kind to be certified against the UK...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

More than 100,000 property transactions have benefitted from access to digitised local land charges (LLCs) data. Conveyancing software provider Search Acumen has...

As another round of property firms is fined, named and shamed for breaching anti-money laundering rules, it feels like the road...

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

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

In this article, Kristian Stott, Head of New Business at iamproperty, analyses the digital revolution in our lives and in property and why...

In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

Adoption of virtual tours among estate agents remain low but new data suggests they could boost sales. Industry analysis shows just 4%...

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

Ben Ridgway and Jamie Cooke, co-founders of iamproperty Group brought together industry leaders in a recent roundtable to discuss the challenges...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur with a lengthy pedigree as an estate agent says agents should use more technology in a bid...

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

In this latest video interview, exclusively available for EAT & LAT readers, Lee Dahill speaks to Ben Ridgway, managing director of...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

Industry-wide adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers could be one step closer after an announcement by a major trade body. The Conveyancing...

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

A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...

The market share of the online and hybrid agencies combined has risen to 8.1 per cent in the second quarter of...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 2D floorplans were considered cutting edge – but it’s safe to say they’re now...

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...

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

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

Boomin has revealed its launch date after months of high-profile publicity. It’s to be three and a half weeks from now on...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

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

There’s no doubt that the property market underwent a tumultuous year in 2020, where efficiency was required more than ever. Since the...

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

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...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

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

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am James D. Marshall, Founder and CEO of Pupil. What...

Online auction service Iamsold secured £52.7m in total for vendors in September, an increase of 16 per cent on the same period last...

There will not be a single business within the property sector that did not start the year in vastly different circumstances...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

London agency JOHNS&CO says the performance of its staff during the Coronavirus period has led it to launch what it regards as...

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

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

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

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

Everyone thought John Bercow was short. It probably didn’t help that I was on stage just before him. 5ft 6 versus...

It’s been clear for a while that the additional regulation landlords and agents are facing has helped professionalise the private rental...

Here at sales progression and communication tool mio, we recently caught up with Sarah Edmundson, co-director of The AllStars Group, the...

KPMG published its Global PropTech Survey 2019 last week with the title: Is your digital future in the right hands? Interesting question:...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

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...

Keller Williams continues to drive culture, mentality, and process transformation by partnering with DocuSign to enable electronic signatures. It’s another lesson in...

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...

Rightmove’s half year figures this morning continue to show strong growth in profits and revenue - but there are the first...

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

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

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

One of my biggest concerns in all of my writing, speaking and influencing around PropTech is that for the people we...

Rightmove has taken steps to improve its email security and accuracy through the adoption of what has been called a “machine...

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

Photos and floor plans remain an essential tool in property marketing. Despite a wealth of choice from aspiring UK PropTech start-ups the...

Why do we choose to engage with one application more than another, or find ourselves returning to the same piece of...