Kotini

If you're in the market for a platform to help you automate your agency's onboarding admin and compliance, come check us out!

We've moved Rex Software into the Kotini neighbourhood!.. Or have they moved us into the Rex neighbourhood? Either way, we've made new friends. Rex now integrates with Kotini - you can smoothly move clients from leads to fully compliant vendors without all the admin - we'll do all the heavy lifting. Check out how you can save hours by automating your agency onboarding and compliance with us: https://kotini.co.uk/ Kieran Witt Harvey Jones Jack Nelson Mark Hinkins Rebecca Greatorex

Today, we onboarded our 500th sale for our Estate Agents, saving them as many, if not more, in hours of admin. What a way to start the year! 🎉 If you're an estate agency owner who fancies automating your take-on process and compliance, book a demo here: https://lnkd.in/eeZzeVmd If you love admin or using lots of different systems to onboard your clients, don't.

Read an article in EAT this morning about the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) concerns with GDPR compliance in the housing sector. (Link to the article and free training from Propertymark at the end). After spending more than a year talking to estate agents up and down the country about how they handle their clients, there are a couple of quick wins agents could implement today: 1️⃣ Make sure you have a privacy policy and provide a copy alongside your contracts. 2️⃣ Keep a record of active consent to your privacy policy I.e. Joanne and Joe Bloggs both ticked the "I've read your privacy policy and consent" box. 3️⃣ Make sure you get active consent from ALL clients, including buyers and renters. Easily overlooked as it's hard to manage this in the absence of a contract between an agency and a buyer/renter. 4️⃣ Don't let your staff hold your clients' personal information on their personal devices, e.g., the valuer taking a picture of ID docs (or at least have a process in place to check and delete this info periodically). All of these points can be solved by tech (we automate all this for agents with Kotini), BUT it doesn't need tech, just an awareness of the rules and good processes in place. Happy to chat with any agents more about this. Just drop me a line. Link to the article: https://lnkd.in/eyiH5ieh Link to the free training from Propertymark: https://lnkd.in/erkaPpjY P.s. It won't just be agents that the ICO talks about here; some brokers and conveyancers will be in a similar situation.

📣 Calling all estate agents! The Voice of the Agent Survey is back again for 2024. It's an open invite from Simon Leadbetter to contribute to one of (if not the) largest surveys for agents collecting data on the key trends, technologies influencing the real estate landscape, and the benchmarks that can set your agency apart. This year's survey will cover everything from market trends and marketing techniques to the latest in proptech, AI and the impact of the economic and political scene on the industry. 2023's survey saw over 550+ agents get involved; you can get started this year here: https://lnkd.in/ednHhuX3 The results – along with some insights from your customers – will be out in April. Don't miss it!

🎉 Happy New Year from Kotini! 🎉 As we step into 2024, we want to say a huge thank you for the continued trust and support from our early estate agent customers. 🏡💼 2023 was just the start for Kotini! We’ve made significant progress in helping estate agents save hours on sales admin every week, hours that are better spent prospecting and increasing revenue. The foundations are in place for a jampacked 2024 with new time-saving and money-making features for agents and some exciting partnerships that’ll put Kotini on the map. Thank you to all our estate agents for being part of the Kotini family.🌟 We wish you a prosperous and joyous New Year! 🥂🌆 #happynewyear

Partnership Announcement 📣 We've been very silent on this one, but it's something we're pretty proud of... We've partnered with the Federation of Independent Agents and now have the pleasure of helping their exceptional agents streamline their take-on admin and keep on the right side of material information disclosures. The very first agent we worked with is an FIA agent who, impressed by how much time we saved their team, put us in touch with Graham Lock and from there, it was a natural step to join forces and bring what we've done for one FIA agent across 100's of transactions to the rest of the FIA community. We can't wait to see how this relationship grows. If you're an agent FIA or otherwise, you can book a call here (https://lnkd.in/eyrwNN9z) to see how we'll help you save your team hours in take-on admin that can be better allocated to prospecting and growing your agency. 

It's been a busy couple of weeks at Kotini HQ! We've had our heads down getting ready to launch the next version of our platform after learning massive amounts from the hundreds of property transactions we've supported this year. 🏡 Whilst we've been beavering away, Geovation welcomed us as one of the three prop-techs on their latest Accelerator Cohort alongside five other great innovators 🎉 We're proud to be following in the footsteps of other great start-ups like Veya and adoor and can't wait to see what we can achieve with Geovation over the next 12 months. Hint: we're doubling down on combining open, standardised property data with great digital experiences to give home buyers and sellers one seamless journey on their way to getting those new keys. https://lnkd.in/e9rybXx2 Jack Nelson Harvey Jones Shaheer Khan Maeve Slattery Alexander Reynolds VoltQuant Housecure Agrasta Ltd Material Index

A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to the Digital Property Market Steering Group alongside property professionals from all over the property industry to discuss what needs to be done to make property transactions more efficient and less stressful for everyday people. It was a great opportunity to showcase how we're using the Property Data Trust Framework pioneered by the Open Property Data Association and Home Buying & Selling Group. We're as excited as ever to be helping property professionals level up their customer experience and leverage data to remove duplication for their customers. #DPMSG #DigitalPropertyMarket Kieran Witt Harvey Jones Jack Nelson