Blog by Richard Murray, CEO, Veco™ The UK has been at the centre of the PropTech movement since day one and along with the USA, continuing to sit at the forefront of thought leadership, investment, and influence. The UK PropTech market size is growing with London playing a significant role in powering the industry, and it […]
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HOW PROPTECHS ARE REVOLUTIONISING LOCATION DATA
Blog by Dan Anslow, Head of Product & Delivery, Veco™ Over the last decade, there has been a quiet revolution in location data. Various tech innovators have developed platforms offering hundreds of data points, sourced from official and trusted providers, from title plans and EPCs to school information and planning history for all UK properties. […]
WHY HIGH STREET AGENTS COMPLETE MORE EXCHANGES THAN ONLINE AGENTS
Blog by Richard Murray, CEO of Veco™ Research from property data company TwentyCi shows the market share of the hybrid or online agents for exchanges in the second quarter of 2022 was 7%. The market share of hybrid and online agents has increased slightly, but they are still struggling to break into the higher value […]
DO ONLINE AGENTS HAVE THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE TO TAKE SIGNIFICANT MARKET SHARE FROM HIGH STREET AGENTS?
Blog by Richard Murray, CEO of Veco™ According to recent data collected between January 2022 to April 2022 from Zoopla, Rightmove and Home.co.uk, hybrid and online estate agents have enjoyed a surge in instructions, pushing their market share to 18% in April 2022, up from 12% over the last 12 months. Despite the increase in […]
WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DOES THE METAVERSE OFFER THE PROPERTY INDUSTRY?
Blog by Richard Murray, CEO of Veco™ The concept of the ‘metaverse’ has attracted much press interest of late, covering the emerging appetite for metaverse investment opportunities, a recent virtual land boom, or where crypto, gaming and capitalism collide. The term ‘metaverse’, which comes from Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel ‘Snow Crash,’ is used […]
LETTING AGENTS AND LANDLORDS FACING SURGE IN DISREPAIR CLAIMS
Recent research reveals there has been an exponential rise in disrepair claims over the past five years, with more than £55.1m paid out across 70 English councils that own their own stock. (Source: Inside Housing, February 2022). Legal costs nearly doubled between 2017-18 and 2020-2021, while the number of cases increased by 132%. Of the councils […]
Webinar with Woodstock Legal Services
Property solicitor, Carly Jermyn from Woodstock Legal Services joins our CEO, Richard Murray and Dan Anslow, Head of Product and Delivery to discuss forthcoming legislation and the worrying rise in dodgy repair claims, often supported by ‘no-win, no-fee’ legal firms.
Evolution IT & Cybercrime Webinar
Duwayne Lake, Operations Director of Veco™ and CEO, Richard Murray discuss how Evolution IT supports agents and the steps they can take to protect their businesses from the rising problem of cybercrime.
Webinar with Fixflo
Lewis Bray, Partnerships & Synergies Manager at FixFlo and our CEO, Richard Murray discuss their latest integration, which now extends to Fixflo Professional, promising to overcome any duplicate functionality and deliver an enhanced user experience.
How will Artificial Intelligence impact property agents?
By Richard Murray, CEO of Veco and Matt Chubb, CTO of Razor AI is already an unstoppable force in the UK economy, with recent research from Tech Nation showing that there are 1,200 AI companies, with a collective turnover of $2bn in 2021 – a 600% increase in the number of firms in the last […]
