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.

RICS's July survey of estate agents reveals a booming sales and lettings market, but nevertheless agents are worried that it won't last.

The proptech firms have joined forces and agents joining Flatfair will now be given a free or heavily discounted subscriptions to the challenger portal.

Homesearch is preparing to go live for the public in Mid-July and has been overwhelmed by the positive response from agents.

Lucy Pendleton says her estate agent recently received an offer that was £500,000 under the asking price of £2.5 million for a property.

OpenBrix founder Adam Piggott says two of the big estate agency CRMs are hindering his and other portals' progress as they sign up agents and try to list their properties.

Homesearch has seen the number of agents leap from 4,300 in March to over 7,000 today as the number of people hacked off by Rightmove has increased.

The Negotiator meets the two founders of Homesearch to find out how the portal challenger started.