Posts by Andrew Stanton
BREAKING 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…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 07/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Coho secures £275k funding for its coliving and HMO solution Before I say more, I must confess a connection with COHO, headed up by Founder Vann Vogstad, and Co-founders Liam Cooper and Helen Turner. They were among my original cohort of ten clients when Proptech-PR, my…
Read MoreWEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 04/02/2022
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X PRESS RELEASE: Epropservices rebrands to nurtur.group PRESS RELEASE: UAE real estate leader Aldar partners with UK tech pioneer Lavanda to facilitate flexible short term stays for visitors to the Middle East Purplebricks half-year results to October 2021 confirm huge cash…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 03/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Bank of England to raise interest rates to 0.5% today? If you live long enough you become wiser to the tactics of Chancellors, and how they might play out in real terms. For example, we regularly report on the BoE interest rate, commenting on…
Read MoreBREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 02/02/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Are you levelling up yet? And is this Gove’s biggest disaster? The Secretary of State for Housing Michael Gove, otherwise known as the “great leveller”, appears to be following a populist-tinged strategy. Combing through the details of his white paper, the central blueprint of…
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