Can software help ease Britain’s housing crisis?
Some tech utopians think so
House-hunting is a favourite British pastime. The country’s three most popular property portals—which aggregate listings from 25,000 estate agencies—attract around 10m people each month. Actually buying and selling homes is a lot less fun. Conveyancing is still almost entirely paper-based; solicitors regard email as cutting-edge technology; many social landlords lack good digital records; and so on. That creates an opportunity for property-tech (“prop-tech”) entrepreneurs to improve the efficiency of the market.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Props to prop-tech”
Britain October 12th 2024
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