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It’s tough to sell a property. Building an estate agency business up from scratch. Keeping its values strong whilst growing a team....

One person’s hilarious April Fool gag is another person’s window into the joker’s soul. “If they find this funny,” you might end up...

If you're a $34Bn business, chances are that you know a little about marketing. So join me, please, as I try and make sense of the above...

What happens to portals in an AI world? Will they strengthen and come to dominate further – or are they hamstrung by their own historic...

Regular viewers will remember that, back in P/AIR 017, I was particularly exercised by Rightmove’s openly-expressed plan to empty agents’...

Big news from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has spent a year casting its eyes over land banks – owned by property...

A 900-branch gorilla just slipped its way quietly into the UK estate agency market, shutting the door quietly on its way in and trying...

What were you doing on 26 January 2015? Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars was the UK’s number one when OnTheMarket (OTM) made its...

Hubris: excessive self-confidence or pride. The puff that accompanies Purplebricks’ recent marketing effort, “Own It”, is perhaps a...

In a very illustrative example of ‘being careful what you wish for’, estate agents in the UK are being shown exactly what deeper...

The Government’s latest eye-catching wheeze to ‘fix’ the property market is to underwrite 99% mortgages for those that might otherwise...

Congrats to everyone involved in making the ‘Boxing Day Bounce’ a thing. Like Black Friday or Pancake Tuesday, guiding people to behave...

It must have been a very smoky room which contained the giggling Board of Directors at Strike, when they decided earlier this year that...

This is definitely a movie sequel I’ve seen before. In the first film, a relatively stable community is suddenly overrun by brutal...

With yesterday's 5-4 vote in favour of keeping rates where they are, the Bank of England could hardly have been less emphatic in its...

This week has been a busy one for portal activity - and not just homeowners coming back from holiday and deciding they need to move as...

New research reveals Gen Z's declining trust in property portals, favouring personal recommendations and reviews

Zillow's new 1% down payment loan program makes owning a home more achievable

Google's AI fund, Gradient Ventures, invests $2m in Jitty, a new property search engine by ex-Deliveroo execs

Administrative delays at the UK Land Registry cause financial strain and frustration for homeowners and buyers