MARCH 13, 2017 | RAYHAN RAFIQ OMAR
Imagine a hypothetical scenario where the largest company in a sector undergoes a slow motion car crash in plain sight of their peers…
MARCH 6, 2017 | RAYHAN RAFIQ OMAR
Purplebricks is the story that keeps on giving. Having wiped the floor with all other online agents in the UK, the firm has launched successfully…
FEBRUARY 08, 2017 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
Base property — located in London’s trendy Shoreditch — punches above its weight by using quality of service, training and technology. We spoke with MD…
FEBRUARY 01, 2017 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
I’m no fan of Hometrack or Zoopla’s wildly off guesstimate of your home’s value. But you have to take your hat off to Alex Chesterman for yet another share…
JANUARY 25, 2017 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
Friends, Feudal Landlords, Commoners,
In 2014 I wrote this:
Seriously, in a massively…
JANUARY 11, 2017 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
When Michael Bruce recently announced the results of his firm Purplebricks, much of the presentation focused on…
JANUARY 03, 2017 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
It used to be the property people who were resistant to change.
DECEMBER 14, 2016 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
Yesterday Brandon Webber, the New York based founder of Hightower, took to a London stage to talk about his firm’s merger with VTS and his view of the future of innovation in the property…
DECEMBER 07, 2016 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
NOVEMBER 23, 2016 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
Friends, Feudal Landlords and Commoners,
The big news this morning was Robert May’s tweet commenting on the other big news:
NOVEMBER 16, 2016 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
The story of Zoopla’s rise is one that fascinates me. Very few people attribute the success to the M&A…
NOVEMBER 01, 2016 | Rayhan Rafiq-Omar
Consumate self-promoter Aaron Block was in the UK to host the MIPIM start-up competition.
Imagine if you opened an email and instead of there being something to read you saw a face with a play button.
This week’s commentary owes inspiration to the indomitable Henry Pryor who posed:
OnTheMarket has disappointed. There’s no simpler way of putting it.
Below I’m going to outline my plan to resuscitate the lost momentum.
PROPTECH WEEKLY #43
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 | Rayhan Rafiq Omar
To regular readers, apologies for the absence of the last few weeks.
It’s been a year many of us will never forget. But will we take the current lessons forward? Were we listening, or did we descend into…
Subscribe to receive Proptech Weekly by email
Last week’s newsletter was important to me. The purpose of writing about Proptech has always been about promoting the…
Subscribe to Real Estate Pundit’s newsletter
It’s been 20 years since the United Kingdom exited the EU, opening up this small but wealthy collection of states to massive change.
While some of that upheaval was negative: farmers went out of business en-masse as the UK…
Some fascinating real estate tech news from across the globe this week and a nice look from Geekestate at the top real…
