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Proptech
EweMove signs exclusive marketing deal with View Agents
View Agents' boss Simon Whale has announced the initiative alongside EweMove Managing Director Nick Neill.
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Those who can…
"What have we learned from the curve balls that life can throw us?" asks Chief Kerfuffler, Simon Whale. The answer is that training will make us more versatile, agile and successful.
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Epropservices re-brands and launches big proptech fund
Now called nurtur, the owner of Fine & Country and The Guild is to back several proptech firms every year to offer 'best tech' to its agents.
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Charity launch: agents get onboard with the Karma Club
Australian bushfire charity appeal is one of the first to benefit from an initiative that enables agents to improve their marketing while raising funds for charity.
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What next for this well-known former Reapit sales manager?
Former senior sales manager and industry figures Peter Fenwick has now launched himself as a proptech guru to sales and letting agents.
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Shocking research reveals how few online sales leads turn into offers
Just one in 25 property portal sales leads turns into an offer, it has been revealed by property software firm Reapit. Its research among 1,000 agents shows that of all the internet leads supplied by the portals during the first six months of this year that turned into offers, 5,269 came from Rightmove, 1,330 from Zoopla and 225 from OnTheMarket. Reapit also says a third of online lettings enquiries and a quarter of sales enquiries received from tenants and buyers by agents are ignored by them. These figures are improvements on last year’s report. The number of leads ignored by agents has decreased by 3% for lettings and 4% for sales enquiries since last year. Reapit says the main reason leads are ignored is that over half of online enquiries to lettings and sales agents are made outside business hours and then not actioned when offices re-open. Property portal Peak times for out-of-hours enquiries are during peak weekday evening TV viewing times when Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation advertise, Sunday afternoons and – for between five and seven percent of leads, during the wee small hours between midnight and 6am. “The lead conversion ratios are a key metric for every agent…
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