Dezrez wasn't built in a day
It all started with a simple idea...
- 1998
Prototype
In the year of Google’s birth, Ian Pearce invents an online property portal and spends his time refining prototypes - 1999
Launch
Just one year later, Justin Morris and Ian Pearce join forces to take the concept to market and christen the portal Dezrez.com - 2000
Refining
Unperturbed by the millennium bug hysteria; forward thinking property professionals help refine the idea into the UK’s first online estate agency software - 2000
First employee
Moving quickly, Ian and Justin hire the first Dezrez.com employee and the first of many properties is entered into the software - 2001
Dedicated premises
Estate agents jump on board the online train and propel Dezrez.com forward so quickly that four employees and business premises are required - 2002
100 customers
In the year Dezrez.com brings in its seminal 100th customer, Wikipedia raises its profile, Google gathers momentum, and bloggers begin to surface - 2003
100,000 properties
Estate agents enter 100,000 properties into Dezrez.com by the time broadband and Apple iTunes become mainstream concepts - 2004
Prime minister visits
Facebook launches and PM Tony Blair visits our very own British success story as half a million properties are uploaded to Dezrez.com - 2005
500 customers
Forward thinkers capitalise on Internet and mobile technologies with 500 estate agents joining Dezrez.com, eBay buying Skype and Murdoch stumping up for MySpace - 2006
1,000,000 properties
One million properties are stored in Dezrez.com and Dezrez Legal, our conveyancing service, is launched in the year Twitter slips onto the market - 2007
1,000 customers
1000 UK estate agencies now use Dezrez.com to drive business and from November keep an eye on the game-changing newly launched iPhone - 2008
30 employees
Dezrez.com moves into its own purpose built premises, hires employee number 30 and wins the Orange Business Award as an online campaign secures Barack Obama the White House - 2009
2,000,000 properties
As two million properties are entered into Dezrez.com, Facebook explodes into the mainstream and smartphones become de rigueur - 2010
First customisable dashboard
Dezrez.com launches the first customisable dashboard to give estate agents more control just as the first iPad hits the market - 2011
PM launched
Dezrez PM is launched as rural communities get the go ahead for broadband, Google+ arrives, and Android becomes a real contender in mobile - 2013
Invitation to 10 Downing street
In the year wearable technology becomes viable, Dezrez.com strengthens its board of directors and Dezrez Legal accepts an invitation to 10 Downing St from George Osbourne - 2014
100 employees
Dezrez.com celebrates its 100th employee and prepares to unveil its next ‘smart’ move; Smart watches have given the phrase particular resonance this year - 2015
Rezi launched
Dezrez.com launches Rezi, its game-changing platform for estate agents; with its open API it transforms how they use software to accelerate their business - 2016
Enhance
Enhance houses a dizzying array of third party apps, extensions, customisations and partnerships - 2017
Rezi Anytime
We Launch Rezi’s Client Portal, live, real time, online access to information and progress of customer's purchase, sale or rental. - 2018
In October Richard Price joins as MD. - 2019
We win the biggest deal in our history - 116 branch agency in the SE. - 2020
Website
A new website is launched providing more online services to clients.
