What property websites cost, who really owns yours, and what the 2026 rules mean for your listings.
69 of 192 run Google or Meta tracking scripts with nothing asking permission. The penalty ceiling for that changed in February and most people missed it.
We scored 192 estate and letting agent websites across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. The most common fault was also the most expensive one.
Council tax, tenure, EPC and a price qualifier. Since April 2025 leaving them off can be a criminal matter, and the guidance that explained them was withdrawn a month later.
Our first scan called 23 working websites broken. Every one of those firms would have been told so in writing. Here is how it happened and what we changed.
The 2027 and 2030 commercial EPC thresholds are still at consultation stage. What that means for your portfolio, and the one job worth doing anyway.
A thirty-second test you can run on your own phone, what each failure means, and the arithmetic of how many enquiries a slow desktop-only site quietly loses.
Portal traffic is rented and gone in a click. Here is how a small property firm builds an audience of its own, and what keeping one actually takes.
The Act has been phasing in since 1 May 2026. Here is what changes for the way you advertise rents on your own site, and what a website can and cannot do about it.
Most property websites have no valuation page, no requirement register, nothing worth downloading and no page for landlords. Here is what each one does.
Most property firms have no page for the phrases their tenants and buyers actually type, and no record of the deals they have done. Here is what to build.
When every small website change carries a fee, the changes stop. Here is what that adds up to over a year, and what a maintained arrangement should cover.
Cookie banners, privacy policies and accessibility: what the rules actually say, and how to check your own site in an afternoon.
Two thirds of Google searches now end without a click. Here is what that does to a property firm's enquiries, and which parts of it you can actually fix.
Follow one enquiry from a 9pm phone screen to a reply the following Tuesday, and see the quiet places it dies on the way.
Most property firms cannot say what their site brings in, which makes every decision about it a guess. What to measure, and what a monthly report should show.
Four questions every property firm should be able to answer about its own web presence, how to check each one in an afternoon, and what a bad answer costs.
Most property firms update the same unit by hand in three places, then email a PDF that is wrong within the hour. Here is what that costs and what replaces it.
RICS and Propertymark letters shrunk into a footer strip, and a team page of four names. Two of the strongest trust signals an independent firm has, both wasted.
A prospect checks your site between the phone call and the meeting. Here is what they conclude in those few minutes, and the proof that would change it.
The DMCC Act made material information failures a criminal matter. The Renters' Rights Act has been phasing in since May 2026. A plain-English map of what that means for property websites.
The average English void now runs 24 days and £1,135 in lost rent. Some of that time is structural. Some of it is your website making applicants work too hard.
Thousands of UK property firms run websites built in software that no longer exists, by developers who have moved on. Here is how to find out if yours is one, and how to get out.
