Your round-up of the week's top news




Get ready for a post-election ‘turbocharged’ property market bounce

Estate agents, developers and tech chiefs hail Conservative landslide as good news for housing, although many demand action on Stamp Duty.

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Purplebricks reveals weak first half of its financial year and pricing overhaul

UK operations reveals a 15% decline in instructions, 31% increase in operating costs, a 34% drop in profits and plans to overhaul its pricing.

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Back of the net! Your Move signs up to become English Football League sponsor

The LSL estate agency brand has paid a significant sum to be named an Official Sponsor of the league, which is the oldest in the world after being established in 1888.

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OTM reaches 8,500 paying agents but new branch recruitment flatlines

Portal makes further progress signing up more agents to paying customers after offering cheaper, shorter-term deals.

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Humberts’ website signs off with a fake phone number for clients to call

Humbert's website was taken offline amid strong speculation that it is entering administration, some 19 months after it was bought by Natural Retreats out of a previous period of administration.

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Purplebricks farms out its customer service to Alexa

From today onward its vendors will be able to bypass any human contact and manage their home's sale via Amazon's digital voice assistant.

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PICS: Is this the best estate agent window Christmas effort so far?

Red Door Homes has spared no effort or expense to give its high street branch the ding dong treatment. Oh, and they made a brilliant video too.

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Digital revolution will unlock land for the housing sector


David Perry and Mehar Patel, Partners at Shoosmiths, discuss the Housing Minister, Esther McVey’s announcement to release data held by local bodies to support the development of the UK Proptech sector.

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