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Enterprise Tools, Property & Construction

One platform, national impact.

5,500+

Estate agents using the platform

80,000+

Property sales supported each year

4,500+

Branded sales slides centrally managed

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Sonin helped us streamline complex workflows and give our agents a faster, clearer way to work day-to-day.

CONNELLS GROUP

The Challenge

Connells Group is the UK’s largest estate agency network, spanning 1,200 branches and 80+ brands.

As the Group grew, so did the complexity of running it, with consistency and oversight harder to maintain across 80+ business units

Connells needed a single, scalable platform to unify operations centrally while keeping each brand’s identity and local relevance intact.

Why it Mattered

Growth at scale

Connells’ ambitions depended on a platform that could unify 1,200 branches without slowing any of them down.

Brand integrity

With 80+ district brands under one Group, consistency at a national level had to coexist with local relevance at a branch level.

Adoption in a high-pressure environment

Estate agents needed a tool that was instantly useful, easy to navigate and valuable from day one, or it wouldn’t get used.

Commercial performance

A platform that improved consistency, visibility and agent efficiency would directly support Connell’s ability to compete and grow.

How we helped

Discovery & Design

Engaged stakeholders through workshops and roundtables, whilst mapping challenges and expectations and captured user journeys. Designed an i-Pad-first experience for live presentations, contract signing and client interactions.

Build & integration

Built direct CRM integration to eliminate data silos, alongside centrally managed, brand-specific templates for all 80+ brands.

Roll out

Integrated the platform into Connells’ existing infrastructure, with a human centred approach to drive adoption from the outset.

Adoption

Instant publishing pushes new templates and brand updates to over 5,500 agents in one action, keeping the network responsive to market shifts.

The Impact

Connells now runs the UK’s largest estate agency network as one business.

1,200 branches and 80+ brands operate from a single platform, giving head office real-time visibility and control without flattening the local identity each brand depends on.

More than 5,500 agents use it every day to present, sign and close in front of clients, and a brand or market update reaches the whole network in one action.

The result is a platform that now supports 1 in 10 homes sold in the UK.

 

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