About This Webinar
“Live market data” has always fuelled the UK Commercial Real Estate market.

Essential for an unbiased view of the current state of the market: whether you use it to build trust with a landlord or tenant, or to spot new opportunities when other agents can’t do deals on listings you know you could fill.

But the industry has moved forward. It’s become faster, and agreements have become shorter, meaning there is more volume.

What was once considered “live market data” is now lagging weeks and sometimes months behind.

In this fast, frank session, Kato CEO Mike Avery and Lead Product Manager Joe Sumray expose the data blind spot holding commercial agents back and show how to fix it with live, verified market signals captured at the source and delivered into your workflows.

We’ll map the shift from research-led and contributory models to “data at source,” then show what a modern agency looks like when information arrives same-day, not quarter-end.

If you pitch, price, or negotiate, this half-hour will sharpen your edge. Don’t miss.
Agenda
  • The blind spot - Why “live market data” now lags. What changed in the market, and where research-led and contributory models fall short when speed and volume increase.
  • Data at source - How verified signals are captured where work already happens and flow back into existing tools.
  • Plays for a modern agency - Practical moves you can use tomorrow.
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Mike Avery
Co-founder & CEO, Kato
Mike Avery is the co-founder and CEO of Kato, the CRM and data platform built for the UK commercial property market. He began developing a digital product in 2008 to help agents manage listings and enquiries more effectively, which in 2012 became AgentsInsight, a commercial property CRM. Under his leadership, the platform grew from a regional tool to an enterprise-grade solution adopted by major firms including JLL and the UK’s office, industrial & retail societies where it powered a unique agent to agent marketplace.

In 2023 Mike guided the merger with digital leasing company Least, combining complementary technologies and expertise to strengthen Kato’s position as a central hub for agency collaboration, deal making, and market insight. This step marked a key point in the company’s evolution from a single-product CRM to a broader platform serving agencies nationwide.

Today Mike leads Kato toward its long-term vision: to become the global platform for transacting commercial property. The latest milestone in this journey is the launch of Atlas, a brand new real-time and agent-led transactions and comparables platform, a must have for any modern agency. Mike’s background in commercial property and focus on practical, user-driven technology continue to shape Kato’s mission and growth.
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Joe Sumray
Product Lead, Kato
Joe Sumray is Product Lead at Kato and brings 9 years of experience at the intersection of commercial real estate data and technology. Having spent over 8 years with EG, Joe developed a deep understanding of how agents and surveyors use data and the challenges they face in extracting value from it. Alongside working on EG Radius, Joe also spent significant time understanding the complexities of connecting CRE data and led the team to develop an industry-first Property Graph, offering the most unified view of the CRE market. He built on this knowledge by exploring its applications across agency, investment, rating, and valuation. Today at Kato, Joe is leveraging those lessons to build Atlas, a new data-sharing platform designed to provide trusted, real-time CRE data. He is recognised as an expert in data-sharing models for the industry, with a clear perspective on what works and what doesn’t.
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