Home Journal
Notes on where Britain lives.
Market insight from our own data, product news, and the odd strong opinion. From the team at Home.
Best estate agents in Birmingham 2026: how to find the right one
Birmingham spans everything from Edgbaston's prime Victorian streets to Digbeth's regeneration corridor. Here is how to find the right estate agent for your specific area and price point.
Why we're backing 250 founding agents
A founder essay on the Founder 250: why we are giving a first cohort of estate agents a featured place on Home, and what we are building together.
Home now connects with 18 estate agent CRMs
Home connects directly with 18 estate agent CRM and data platforms including Alto, Jupix, Reapit, Loop, Rex, Apex27, Homeflow, DezRez and more. Connect once, listings stay current automatically.
Why we built a survey tool inside a property portal
Home is a property portal that also built RICS report-writing tools, an AI assistant and AML compliance for chartered surveyors. Here is the thinking behind that decision.
Six months of shipping: everything we have built on Home
From the Inigo AI assistant in December 2025 to parallelised valuations, canvassing tools and the surveyors section, here is a full account of what the Home team has shipped since the platform launched.
The future of RICS reporting: where AI fits and where it stops
AI is changing how RICS reports get written, but the surveyor's professional judgement remains central. We set out where the technology is genuinely useful and where it should not go.
How we handle property photography at scale
At half a million listings, property photography is an infrastructure problem. Here is how we process, normalise and serve photos from 18 different CRM sources consistently.
Six months since we acquired home.co.uk: what we have learned
Six months after the acquisition: 18 CRM integrations, Otto v2, Inigo, the house prices engine. An honest look at what we have shipped and what is still to do.
Why we built a moving services marketplace inside a property portal
Most portals stop at property search. Home extends into the move itself: conveyancing, removals, mortgage referrals, and broadband checks in one place. Here is why.
How our CRM sync actually works: polling, backoff and scale
A plain-English explanation of how Home keeps listings in sync across 18 CRM integrations, covering API polling, intelligent backoff, SFTP feeds, and push connections.
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