Meet the most intelligent person in PropTech: Peter Thum-Bonanno of @FindProperly

Everyone and their Mum would like to launch a ‘better’ property portal. Many are trying. Even more have failed. None, bar Zoopla, have succeeded in competing with the might of Rightmove.

.@Purplebricks founder Michael Bruce on how to disrupt estate agents

Can friendly neighbourhood @Redfin spin the web to save Real Estate

Buying real estate is the ultimate in consumerism

Ex-Hamptons CEO buys Sotheby’s license off Hamptons-owner Countrywide

It is reported this morning, by Rosalind Renshaw of Property Industry Eye, that Countrywide have sold their UK Master License for the Sotheby’s International Realty brand.

Realtors who pay @Zillow are dumb

Ok, they’re not dumb, but Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff is playing the industry for fools.

In this video interview with Jim Cramer (of Mad Money fame) he rebuffs value (for money and stock price value with continued growth) concerns with: “we’re…

Agent mobile apps are not yet game-changing

Let’s just get a lay of the land here:

- ZipRealty, a tech-enabled agent was just acquired by Realogy
- Urban Compass raised a lot of money and pivoted into a tech-enabled brokerage
- Redfin, the original tech-enabled brokerage…

Macroeconomic realities of UK Real Estate

While the price of homes appreciates (seemingly) beyond all reason, home sale numbers/volume in the UK will never reach pre-credit-crunch levels ever again.

Are UK online-only agents just FSBO in disguise?

And there it is, the deafening chorus of traditional estate agents screaming “Yes!”.

For years high street agents have been crying foul that Rightmove allows For-Sale-By-Owner sites to sneak listings next to theirs.