Posts by Andrew Stanton
BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 28/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Valocity Partners With Fabrick To Speed European Mortgage Market Lending Fabrick and Valocity have agreed to a commercial tie-up, bringing Valocity’s Australasian-based property valuation solution to Europe. The solution, which has already powered over $1 trillion worth of lending decisions, will now be available to…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 25/02/2022
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Knight Frank invests in Proptech Futures via Fifth Wall More property info needed for sales & lets by the end of May As Howsy runs out of cash, what lessons can be learned? Findingaplace exceeds crowdfunding target, raising over £310,000…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 24/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Findingaplace exceeds crowdfunding target, raising over £310,000 As well as helping property technology founders grow and sell their SMEs, and helping companies in property-adjacent sectors with digital transformation, I also invest in start-ups. Recently, I was on a call with a founder of a…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 23/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Gove’s Levelling Up Plan Falters Over Landlord Cladding Remediation Crisis Currently, Michael Gove is looking to push through Building Safety legislation on leasehold properties that are defective, thought to be numbering around 800,000. On the surface, tackling the remediation issues caused by cladding is a noble…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 22/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. More property info needed for sales & lets by the end of May In a bid to speed up the average 28-week process of taking a property to sale and completion, there is to be a new, less-opaque regulatory compulsion for those selling or…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 21/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Knight Frank Invests In Proptech Futures Via Fifth Wall Knight Frank, together with a cohort of other real estate luminaries, is putting cash into Fifth Wall’s coffers to invest in Proptech SMEs looking to put forth innovative solutions for the real estate sector. Fifth…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 18/02/2022
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X The Guild to host an in-person innovation, acceleration and growth conference this year Will Purplebricks delist from AIM and go private again? Is the Mulbury Homes collapse the tip of the new homes iceberg? £29m Fine & Country listing available…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 17/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. £29m Fine & Country listing available as the real thing or NFT Hampton Hall has, according to the selling agent Fine & Country, “over 29,116 square feet of beautiful bespoke design, presented in Cotswold stone, flanked by Corinthian fluted columns and a 380 feet…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 16/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Is the Mulbury Homes collapse the tip of the new homes iceberg? It has been announced that Mulbury Homes, a housing developer known for its affordable housing schemes, has gone into administration. Although only a small company with approximately 40 staff, it’s feared that…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 15/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Will Purplebricks delist from AIM and go private again? Though Purplebricks is awash with cash at the bank, and in no way has any financial difficulties due to its cash upfront sell or do not sell model, its low share price on the AIM,…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 14/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Can mortgage and solicitor referrals power Strike’s online agency? Andrew Harrison, chair and investor at Strike, put a positive spin on its offering recently, saying that the online agency’s chance to become the dominant method of buying and selling through its free service is…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 11/02/2022
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Coho secures £275k funding for its coliving and HMO solution Freddie Savundra: Is the future website forms or chatbots? Why is Purplebricks doomed? Rentd’s solution lays down yet another challenge for traditional agents Coho secures £275k funding for its coliving…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 10/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Rentd’s solution lays down yet another challenge for traditional agents As well as being a journalist and editor, my day job is helping founders of property technology SMEs grow their proposition. It is an interesting role as I get into meetings with complete strangers…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 09/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Stuart Andrew becomes housing minister. Does it matter? After Boris Johnson’s latest reshuffle, Stuart Andrew joins the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) as Minister of State for Housing. He is the 32nd housing minister in 38 years, meaning that the average…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 08/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. With no property to sell, is the housing market in peril? As both an editor and owner of a publication in the property sector, and with a day job dealing with the digital transformation of real estate by helping founders of property technology companies…
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