Proptech
News focusing on new technological solutions which create efficiencies and cost-savings for estate and letting agents and the wider residential property industry.
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Strutt & Parker parent company sets up £90 million proptech start-up fund
BNP Parisbas and US proptech investment giant Fifth Wall have joined forces to begin backing UK and European early-stage firms.
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We’ll rival Rightmove with our ‘Tinder’ style bills-inclusive renting app
Claim is made by three-year-old lettings platform started up by a former youth Rugby star that pays letting agents when tenants switch utilities.
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Two crowdfunding platforms which raised millions for online agents have merged
Both Crowdcube and Seedrs were used by investors to back the hybrid agency along with many other well-known proptech and online firms.
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Challenger portal promises ‘local dominance’ to agents after AI launch
Residential People says its new artificial intelligence-based service, to be launch in December, will be a game changer.
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Exclusive: Senior industry figure launches unique compliance platform for agents
Michael Stoop has partnered with leading industry compliance figure Caroline Kenny to create a watertight resource for agents to use on their computers or on the go.
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Jon Cooke: Property industry has evolved “ten years in a few months during Covid”
CEOs of two major estate agency companies say Covid is driving huge changes to the way estate agents work that can't be turned back.
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Exclusive: Identity checks pain for estate agents to end as key panel meets this week
Group due to meet includes officials and representatives from estate agency, conveyancers, surveyors, lenders, portals and trading standards.
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Half of estate agents are now plugged into pioneering blockchain network
Announcement follows decision by software giant VTUK to join three key rivals on the Coadjute platform, which enables agents, conveyancers, buyers and sellers to all see live information on transactions.
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Hunters begins testing new ‘flexible working’ CRM system
Franchised network group says SKIPA system will also cut out many of the labour-intensive chores agents face on a daily basis.
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Property bidding proptech bags senior industry figure to drive ‘revolution’
Offr says it's hired former Hamptons heavyweight Peter Everett to help build its business in the UK, which already has over 1,000 accounts signed up.
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