Estate and letting agents are adopting prop-tech in increasing numbers.
Landmark Information’s Estate Agency Services division – the umbrella group which was formed last October – has reported a record first quarter of 2017, with sales up across all its businesses,
Floorplan drawing service Metropix has announced a 12% rise in the number of properties for which plans were created compared with the same period last year.
The growth also has a knock-on benefit to the unique ‘PlanBank’ tool which catalogues every plan created and alerts you if a plan is available for re-use.
Metropix recently created its nine millionth floorplan and is on course to process the ten millionth this year.
Compliance in a Box, the toolkit for anti-money laundering and consumer protection regulations and CPR compliance, has reported 23% growth.
The No Sale No Fee Auction Pack solution has achieved a 96% rise in volumes over the same period.
Landmark forecasts further growth this year, saying that changes to the Money Laundering Regulations will make online client verification a more compelling proposition when clearer identification of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and the anticipated introduction of buyers, in addition to sellers, to the AML regime comes into effect under the 4th Money Laundering Directive in June.
Phil Natusch, managing director of Estate Agency Services, said: “The objective of the new division was to pull together the expertise within the group to deliver a more coherent customer service experience.
“The combination brings the best of all worlds; the famed customer service excellence of Metropix and Compliance in a Box alongside more products and services designed to make the life of estate and letting agents easier and help them stay the right side of new regulations.”
The umbrella group, which also includes Mouseprice, is in Daily Mail and General Trust ownership.
Comments (2)
Having tried several floor plan companies over the past 10 years I now use FloorplansUsketch for 100% of my clients. By sketching on an A3 sheet curved work tops, fancy sink shapes, varying wall thicknesses etc: can all be recorded and thus the final plan will be an accurate representation of a property. The service FloorplansUsketch provide is exceptional, I photograph and upload my sketches late afternoon and the drafts are generally back by lunchtime the following day. My clients have sub accounts and request amendments directly leaving me free to cover more properties and for them to receive a more rapid turn around.
Any floor plan user really does need to take a look at Planup. I don’t work for them but I have used their system since 1997 and can only recommend it wholeheartedly. The main benefit to most others is that you do the plan on site so can deal with any issues as they happen, rather than being back in the office working off a sketch and trying to remember why the walls don’t seem to line up.
Doing the plan back in the office, on your PC is just waiting for an accident to happen and could easily mean serious errors. I know – we used to have some people doing their plans that way!