Posts Tagged ‘Property News’
BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 05/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Purplebricks, AskHomey, John Lewis, and more. Purplebricks has its day of reckoning Dharmesh Mistry sees into the future, says all the dots will join up John Lewis follows Lloyds Bank into lettings NRLA: The laws underpinning the PRS are…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 25/06/2021
NUMBER OF SOLICITORS FINED BY SOLICTORS REGULATION AUTHORITY OVER AML LAPSES It has just been announced, the SRA has fined a number of solicitors, due to their failure to have in place the correct procedures for anti-money-laundering. On a related point given that last year over £10M was paid out to cover the indiscretions of…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 23/06/2021
CONNELLS & YOTI IN TIE UP OVER DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION YOTI who specialise in a digital solution to identifying an individual, so that everyone can deal with that person knowing they are actually doing so, have recently acquired Connells as a client. Though I must disclose that YOTI are a client of my company Proptech-PR, having…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 21/06/2021
JUST EIGHT WORKING DAYS TO END OF STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY The 30th of June 2021, is the hard stop date for the full SDLT ‘holiday’ that the Chancellor put in place, and it coming upon all of the those in the sector at a pace. To get the benefit, up to £15,000 of relief, properties…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 26/05/2021
WHY ARE PROPERTY PORTALS SUDDENLY BECOMING PROPTECH INNOVATORS? Since early 2017 I have been a great advocate of Proptech, having formally been an analogue agent for the previous three decades, I went on to be a Proptech Influencer and analyst, then setting up Proptech-PR. Since then I have met and listened to over 370 Proptech…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 25/05/2021
FIXFLO EXIT TO AAEON AG AFTER A DECADE BUILDING THE BUSINESS Most Proptech enterprises have two exit strategies the IPO route, becoming a listed company and floating or being bought up by a company with deep pockets, usually so the company can further develop the business, usually retaining the team in place. Rajeev Nayyar &…
Read MoreRelease of pent-up demand leads to busiest ever day as more home-movers enter market
Rightmove records busiest ever day on Wednesday 27th May, surpassing six million visits for the first time and up 18% on the same Wednesday in May last year Search is turning into action with record levels of people phoning and emailing estate agents through Rightmove, also up 18% on the same day last year Over…
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