It’s clear that the UK property rental market is currently suffering from a huge imbalance between demand from tenants and a limited supply of rental properties. “In January 2022, the UK’s average rent was £1,064; by November 2022, it had risen to £1,175, a 10% increase in less than a year”, according to HomeLet [...]
For a long time, the lettings sector was slow to embrace digital transformation. There was a considerable amount of fear and a lack of understanding, with a misperception that digital transformation was pushing customers away, rather than bringing them closer to agents. And then along came COVID! An unexpected pandemic threw Business as [...]
Data. Is it still a hot topic? Not setting your world on fire? Well, it should be. Not the data itself, necessarily, but what it can do for your business. The information you hold about your clients can transform your lettings agency’s fortunes, for better or for worse. So, it’s about time that [...]
The road to regulation is littered with obstacles for the lettings agent. Whether it’s right to rent, property licensing or GDPR, the list of compliance hurdles just keeps on growing. Managing compliance keeps agents bogged down in tedious admin daily, stopping them from doing their best work focussing on relationships and growth. The [...]
It’s no secret that the lettings industry has been slow to embrace the benefits that technology has to offer. COVID accelerated that process, through the necessity of having to manage agents, tenants, contractors and landlords needing to access information remotely. Still, the reality is that many agents don’t get the value of great [...]
What if every person and every process in the lettings lifecycle are connected in one platform? How does that help lettings agency firms? The best way to explain the difference between platform technology and using several different proptech products from different providers is this: Before supermarkets, people went to the butcher, the baker, [...]
TBL’s CTO, Vik Tara breaks down the key considerations of Private Cloud. With an increasing number of growing property businesses seeking the right infrastructure for security and reliability, this is a no brainer for IT execs who are looking to make their next cloud move.
TBL's CTO, Vik Tara delves into the reasons why ambitious property companies should consider Private Cloud hosting in light of the recent headlines with global internet outages.
Dr. Adam Blaxter Paliwala discusses how different technology choices provide transparent or opaque decision making. Raising the ethical concern that this has on property businesses, Adam looks at certain intelligent systems that have opaque decision making built into its design, and the impact on people's lives.
Dr. Adam Blaxter Paliwala discusses how AI systems are capable of making judgements. These judgements pose a really big ethical concern because of the impact on people's lives.
Adam Blaxter from TBL talks about the ethics of AI and in particular, how they're applicable to the Property and PropTech Industry.
The challenge of digital identity for lettings agencies As the digital transformation of the lettings industry accelerates, agencies now find themselves with a profusion of incoming information. Having tons of data is great, or is it? Well, yes, having lots of information is incredibly useful, IF you are able to analyse it in a [...]
In this episode we discuss the impact working from home has had on the social element of our work life. Adam gives some tips in how to still fit socializing into a virtual office set up.
Continuing on our chat about how to adapt, survive thrive with remote teams. Today we discuss the challenges and highpoints of working from home. We also look into to the kinds of tools we use to effectively run a digital office, where the team collaborates and communicates as if they were all together. [...]
We had a slight head start on the work from home front as many members of our core team already did some form of work from home as part of their routine. Now all businesses are thrust into this way of working and the world around us has changed so drastically we wanted explore [...]
In the last episode Adam summarises the main challenges we've discussed in this episode and gives 3 top tips in tackling the current wave of change.
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