Business growth expert, Founder of ModelProp. Veteran of startups Zoopla & Primelocation. Father, runner, Ipswich Town fan. https://nitter.cf/t.co/6XRtxo41WR
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New rental database: a landlord with 140 properties gets 140 registrations, 140 agent invites and 140 links to click.
Lomond has ~57,000.
Matt Goddard on why lettings just wants bulk upload. Starts 15 Dec, £65 a property.
PAIR ep 102 🎧
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RICS: sales expectations gloomiest since July 2023. Landlord instructions falling. England's £65-a-property landlord database lands 15 Dec.
Time to invest in the team?
Enter The Heavy. Fresh invoice - higher fees.
MyPorta is free for agents. Always will be. So you can choose what's the right move for your own business.
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7.42pm. Office shut. Team on a viewing.
"Could we view the Langland house on Saturday?"
"Do you have a property to sell first?"
ChatProp takes the viewing request, then asks the question a good negotiator would.
From £99 a month + VAT (up to 50% off for MyPorta partners).
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ChatProp, from £99 a month + VAT: chatprop.co.uk/?utm_source=x…
Book a demo: calendly.com/laura-modelprop…
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The £1.5bn Rightmove claim had its day at the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Judgment reserved. Nobody liable (yet), nobody cleared (yet), nobody paid (yet).
The fight was opt-in v opt-out.
Meanwhile, agents: haggle. The Tribunal might change the bill one day. This month's is still due.
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What happened in court, and what agents should do while they wait: modelprop.ai/insights/rightm…
Weekly PAIR newsletter: modelprop.ai/pair?utm_source…
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#Hemnet: founded 1998.
2 Sep: new chair, board reshuffle.
29 Sep: free listings announced.
20 Oct: free listings live.
4 Nov: CEO departure announced.
The board changed the strategy. Then the CEO.
Decades of dominance. Nine weeks of upheaval.
UK agents: watch.
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Hemnet board announcement: hemnetgroup.se/en/media/pres…
Why UK agents should care: modelprop.ai/insights/challe…
MyPorta is free for agents: myporta.ai/launch?utm_source…
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Hemnet just changed its CEO.
Free listings launched 20 Oct. Gustafsson out 5 Nov.
Paid listings −30% in Q3. Share ~−60% this year.
When the toll cracks, the board doesn't reverse the strategy. It changes the person.
UK agents: watch Sweden.
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Google's AI Mode answers the question upfront.
So nobody's buying the blue ads.
On episode 102 of the Property AI Report, Matt Goddard and I get into why: AI is a different business model, and the old internet is starting to creak.
Clip below. Full episode in the reply.
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Full episode, ~31 mins: propertyaireport.buzzsprout.…
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Episode eight. Peter wants a drone. A bit of an edge. Ambition, briefly, has clearance for take-off.
Then a fedora walks in with a card reader.
"Oi! You know that ain't the right move, mate."
Imagination: grounded. Again.
MyPorta is free for agents. Always will be.
Buy the drone. Let something different take off for once.
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Agents walked onto our stand at EA Masters.
They walked off as vinyl figures.
One photo on the stand. Their own AvatarProp character.
No studio. No crew. Just agents having a go.
Thank you to everyone who stood for one.
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Elon promised a historically accurate Odyssey from Grok Imagine.
What's turned up: 7 minutes. Lips don't match. Fastest Aegean crossing in history.
Wired asked. Grok marked its own homework. Fail.
Ask the tool next time someone sells you "always accurate".
Video: @imagine
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What lettings agents need to know from UKPA at Ballymore's Design Cube: the Renters' Rights Act is coming, the admin burden is the real problem, and @KristjanByfield's 90-day fix is to own it, measure it and refine it. It's not the tech. It's you. #Lettings #PropTech
