Posts by Andrew Stanton
BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 17/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. How much inventory do estate agents actually have to sell? Last Friday on my travels, I stopped off at Storrington in West Sussex, your typical sized town. As I walked around the centre with my co-directors Ann and Zara, we peered in all the…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 14/01/2022
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Online agent Strike gets £11m more cash to burn OnTheMarket deepens partnership with Sprift prospecting tool SmartMail Where is mortgage lending going to end up? There’s a new sheriff in town, the great leveller Michael Gove Online agent Strike…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 13/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. First time buyers powered the 2021 housing market, what about 2022? According to HM Land Registry, more than 1.2 million homes changed hands last year, despite the rounds of lockdowns and accompanying mayhem caused by the pandemic. What is now becoming crystal clear is…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 12/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. The Guild: Cybercrime claims are on the rise, agents need to prepare Paul Offley, Group Compliance Officer at epropservices, which includes The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country, has come forward with advice in light of the increasing cybercrime-related cases impacting estate…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 11/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. OnTheMarket Deepens Succesful Partnership With Sprift And Smartmail Offering At present there is an instructions drought. With the average amount of properties listed for sale per agency branch in the UK at an all-time low, about one third less than normal for a January…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 10/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Online agent Strike gets £11m more cash to burn Having recently secured a further £11 million in funding to keep it going, online agent Strike has announced that it is now going national with its free-to-sell agency model. Having been an estate agent for…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 17/12/2021
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Gove the great leveller is not levelling up the lettings sector Is Purplebricks on the edge of collapse as share price drops 20% in a day? Estate agents working from home: is it Plan B or a future trend? Over…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 16/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Will the housing market go from boom to bust in 2022? Whilst many estate agents have had a boom year, and property prices have increased nationally by an average price of £31,000, there are now signs that the party may soon be over. The…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 15/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Estate agents working from home: is it Plan B or a future trend? Boris Johnson’s government is now saying that if workers can work from home they should, which means many agents will be doing just that. Perhaps the bigger question is whether this…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 14/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Is Purplebricks on the edge of collapse as share price drops 20% in a day? All signs point to the fact that Purplebricks may be set to fail. Yesterday its share price tanked. This is a shame because as a concept Purplebricks, an online…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 13/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Purplebricks may have yet another multi-million pound problem on its hands The beleaguered Purplebricks, whose share price on the AIM has fallen like a stone in recent times, now has a new potential problem. It has been alleged that it has failed to follow…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 10/12/2021
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Property Alert Service needs to go further, faster Federation of Independent Agents launches FIACON event in Milton Keynes Women Aged 30-45 Leading the Charge for Sustainable Retrofits in UK Homes Hybrid or not…What is the right model for estate agents…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 09/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Will Plan B and the Omicron variant close the housing market down? The property market is once again at a crossroads, with the Bank of England deciding next week if it will raise the base rate to offset the 5% inflationary rate that is…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 08/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Women Aged 30-45 Leading the Charge for Sustainable Retrofits in UK Homes PRESS RELEASE, houzen: When it comes to environmental change, sisters are doing it for themselves – and for future generations. Greta Thunberg inspired a global youth movement that has shamed governments around…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 07/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Will online estate agents be consigned to the history books? Purplebricks, the online agent listed on the Alternative Investment Market, has a share price of just 31p. In its heyday, its share price was close to £5.00. Ben Carter, Chief Marketing Officer, arrived in…
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