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Proptech firm claims it can help agents banish email ‘tyre kickers’
Estate agents will soon be able to automatically sort out the useful portal email leads from the tyre kickers following the launch of a new proptech service. OneDome says its OneLead product will enable estate agents to respond instantly to any buyer or vendor email enquiry coming in from Rightmove, Zoopla or OnTheMarket and work out which kind of customer they are and then direct them to either a valuations or viewings booking page. The system generates an automated reply answer to an email enquiry depending on the information within it, helping agents answer them more quickly and filtering out the ‘chaff from the wheat’, it is claimed. OneDome says Rightmove’s own figures show that 65% of vendor and buyer leads from the portals arrive out of hours. “Consumer expectations are greater than ever and they expect instant gratification,” says OneDome CEO Babek Ismayil (pictured, left). “When sending an enquiry form from a portal, buyers often get a slow response or no reply at all because agents find that many of the enquiries they get from portals are low quality, or worse, spam. “This discourages agents from responding and unfortunately, this means that high quality enquiries are missed.” The company…
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Protecting against property fraud using proptech solutions
Could the rise of PropTech protect homebuyers against property fraud? Owen Derbyshire reveals the scams and some ways of combatting thieves.
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RICS launches PropTech insight paper
RICS has published an insight paper on tech revolution and the future of residential property, examining what PropTech means for the residential property sector...
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London renting app begins advertising push following rebrand of ‘confusing’ logo
London renting app Movebubble’s first poster advertising campaign has begun within the capital’s tube system, two years after it launched with great fanfare backed by over two million pounds of venture capital cash. The app has created three advertisements which also coincide with a rebrand, designed to help renters understand that its service helps them navigate the renting journey, something it’s previous ‘bubble’ logo didn’t, the company’s own research recently discovered. “Movebubble strives to be with renters from the start of their rental journey, all the way through to the day they move in,” says Movebubble’s CEO Aidan Rushby, before starting up the company worked for a Bristol lettings firm (pictured, left). “The symbol and logo represent the journey a renter goes through to discover the right property. Movebubble gets you to the finishing line and is by your side through all the ups and downs.” Renting app Aidan also recently said he wanted to make renting a home as easy as “ordering a pizza”, and has gone some way towards achieving it already. Tenants can browse and book a property viewing with a ‘few taps’, make an offer on a property, pay any holding fees and complete the paperwork…
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2018: make or break for PropTech
The next twelve months are likely to be a tipping point for technology in the housing market, say the leading PropTech figures.
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How did the big property portals take over the industry?
Andrea Kirkby takes a tour through the property portals 10 years on...
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PropTech and the property pros
81% of property professionals believe that PropTech is benefiting the industry, but says Rolf Groenewold, MD, KeyAGENT, adoption is relatively slow.
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New app will ‘revolutionise’ tenant application process
A new digital product, Vouch, has been created to ‘revolutionise the tenant application process for letting agents’.
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Settled rebrands
Settled, the software platform which connects every step in the home moving journey is rolling out a brand new logo, website and visual identity...
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Digital conveyancing ‘revolution’ imminent, says Land Registry
A major shake-up of conveyancing is about to kick off when the Land Registry starts publishing comparative data on how fast and efficiently conveyancers perform, it has been revealed. The Land Registry says it wants home movers to be given a ‘real picture’ of how well their conveyancer performs overall in the market before engaging them, as well as enabling firms to track their own performance. The news is revealed within the Land Registry’s Business Strategy for the next five years, which also says it wants to prevent so many chains falling apart. Research by Which? last year highlighted how at least a fifth of all sales that fall apart prior to exchange of contracts do so because of a failed chain. The Land Registry says it will begin publishing its data in a way – presumably in ‘real time’ – that will enable conveyancers to develop automated sales progression and chain management tools. Online agents The Land Registry says its ‘digital first’ approach is in response to the increasing digitisation of the property buying and selling process including, it says, the rise of online estate agents, conveyancers and property information providers. And the organisation says it has other ambitious…
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