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QR code scams: How to spot and stop them 

A QR code scam is a repurposed ‘Quick Response’ code that usually contains a website address. But did you know it can contain up to 4000 characters and perform some operations on your smartphone? More…

Auctions clearance rates rebound as buyers have “waited long enough”

Despite interest rates continuing to rise, buyers are now starting to return to the market after having “waited long enough” for prices to fall. More…

New listings jump 25% in February

Great news for listings volumes. The autumn selling season has seen the number of new listings increase by 24.8% in February, according to PropTrack. More…

Instagram adds lead form

Instagram has added a new ‘Lead Form’ option within your IG business profile action buttons, which provides new ways to generate direct response from your office presence in the app. More…

Chat GPT-4 arrives

Chat GPT-4 is the latest milestone in OpenAI’s efforts to scale up deep learning. GPT-4 is a ‘large multimodal model’ (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks. More…

Is the housing market getting back to normal?

CoreLogic has release a report unpacking how the housing market has evolved in the three years since COVID was declared a global pandemic. More…