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BREAKING 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…
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BREAKING 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…
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BREAKING 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…
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New Year resolution sellers gearing up for 2022 as closer to normal market beckons
The price of property coming to market sees its usual December dip, down by 0.7% (-£2,234) this month Following a hectic last eighteen months, Rightmove predicts a closer to normal market during 2022: While fully available stock for sale has hit a new record low this month, valuation requests from home-owners are 19% up on…
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WEEKLY 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…
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BREAKING 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…
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BREAKING 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…
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BREAKING 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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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 06/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Depositless Renting for Students and Working Professionals PRESS RELEASE / Housing Hand: UK rental guarantor service Housing Hand has revealed details of its new, Depositless renting service. Available to working professionals, UK students and students from overseas, the Depositless option will allow renters to…
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WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 03/12/2021
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X What PRS preparations are needed to achieve net-zero by 2050? 21.3 million UK properties need sustainable retrofits Facemasks now required in Agency offices £5000 boost for homeowners who install electric chargers CRETI: $768 million invested in multifamily proptech this year…
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Bournemouth is the most in-demand coastal location this year
Rightmove analysis of the year reveals Bournemouth is 2021’s most in-demand coastal location from buyers, followed by Southampton and Brighton The average asking price this year for a property in Bournemouth is £317,449, up 4% from last year Padstow in Cornwall is this year’s top coastal price hotspot, with average asking prices 20% higher than…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 02/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. CRETI: $768 million invested in multifamily proptech this year In the latest edition of This Week in Proptech, a US-centric weekly investment briefing issued by CRETI, the focus was on real estate technology companies building out solutions for the multifamily sector. In partnership with…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 01/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Yopa secures “significant” funding Yopa, the “full-service estate agency”, grew its revenue by 73% in 2020. Contributing to the rise was a 28% uptick in listing growth with another significant factor being Yopa’s decreasing losses, which fell from £18 million (2019) to £6 million…
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Rightmove forecasts house prices to rise nationally by 5% in 2022, and by 3% in London
Rightmove predicts that the national average price of property coming to market will rise by 5% next year, as strong buyer demand and a historically low level of available property continue to push up prices in 2022. As always there will be sector and regional market variations. Currently the most competitive markets are in…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 30/11/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Rental demand at all time high PRESS RELEASE: Demand for private rental housing is at an all time high according to new research being published by the National Residential Landlords Association. A survey of private landlords across England and Wales, conducted in partnership with…
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