Lisa Isaacs asked suppliers to the estate and letting industry for their thoughts on the 12 months ahead and how they see technical changes rolling out.

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.

Richard O'Neill is a UK agent who took auctions to Ireland only to stay and develop the country's growing online sector and then export it back.

Five-bedroom detached house has been sold via Irish Rightmove equivalent MyHouse.ie during a successful online auction.

Offr, the prop-tech platform digitising the buying, selling and leasing process for real estate agents and buyers, has launched in the UK & Australia to digitise the buying and selling of property.

Proptech company Offr gains new backing as it breaks out of Ireland and into two new key markets but hopes to eventually become an international platform.

Offr enables agents, vendors and those making offers on a property to communicated via a common platform, helping reduce fall-throughs by 50%.