"I'm thrilled to have such a broad range of experience, skills, and innovative personalities on the team."
New independent industry body, The Open Property Data Association (OPDA), had appointed the first eight founding members who will form its executive committee, with more to follow in the coming weeks.
The OPDA was launched earlier this month by the Home Buying & Selling Group (HSBG).
OPDA’s mission is to foster innovation and industry-wide collaboration and to digitise the home moving process through the power of data. The association aims to support the creation and adoption of data and technology standards to create a digital, efficient, and trusted home moving process.
Its new executive committee consists of experienced leaders and professionals in the business and property sectors including John Reynolds from Coadjute, Jason Tebb from OnTheMarket, Ed Molyneux from Moverly, Paul Albone from tmgroup, Kieran Witt fromm Kotini, Malcolm Smith from Groundsure, Lewis Scott from Homely, and Sián Hemming-Metcalfe from Inventory Base.
OPDA membership will cover a broad range of firms from all areas of property transactions including proptech start-ups, CRM and case management platforms, connectivity and integration partners, property data providers, property insight platforms, and other entities involved in property data.
The Group says that firms who are already using its schema to create digital upfront property packs, instructing the sellers conveyancer on day one, and sharing the data using its open standards are seeing results with up to 70-day reduction in transaction times, 80% faster for customer checks, and a huge drop in fall through rates.
Maria Harris, chair of OPDA, commented: "Having a strong and representative executive committee is key for any trade member association so I'm thrilled to have such a broad range of experience, skills, and innovative personalities on the team.
"To have market leading firms from proptech start-ups, established industry suppliers, cutting edge technology infrastructure, and a well-known high-street brand in OnTheMarket, is testament to the desire and commitment across the industry to make this work.
"I'm genuinely humbled by everything we've achieved in such a short space of time and incredibly excited for a better home buying future.”
