Portals

Parents paying £52,000 more on a home to secure a place at an outstanding state primary school

 

With 86% of ‘outstanding’ state primary schools oversubscribed in England2, parents are paying an average asking price premium of £52,000 to live in the successful admission area of one This 18% price premium is compared to living in admission areas of Ofsted grade 3 schools The ‘Primary School Premium’ study combines the largest asking prices…

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Rightmove

OnTheMarket provides value for money & is making outstanding progress:

 

Some of the UK’s most well-known and largest independent estate and letting agents have asserted that OnTheMarket.com is making outstanding progress and is already delivering a strong return on their investment as it provides a growing number of quality leads. Peter Symons, a Senior Partner at Stags Estate Agents, which has 20 offices across Cornwall,…

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EAN Content

ONTHEMARKET.COM LAUNCHES COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CHANNEL

 

Property portalÿOnTheMarket.comÿis now listing UKÿcommercialÿproperties to rent and for sale on a dedicated new channel. Closely aligned with its UK residential search and its overseas search, the focus of theÿcommercialÿproperty channel is on the all-important property details. It does not carry distracting advertising or any unnecessary information.ÿCommercialÿsearch results are presented in grid, list and map…

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EAN Content

Perfect Letting Agents vs Not so Perfect Estate Agents

 

What is it with you Letting Agents? You are so opposite to the Estate Agents in your office. While Estate Agents would sell their Grandmother to get a sale – you Letting Agents play it straight .. straight down the line because if you c*ck things up – you are going to prison .. you…

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Christopher Watkin

ABSOLUTELY MAGAZINES AND ONTHEMARKET.COM ANNOUNCE ONLINE PARTNERSHIP

 

Absolutely Magazines and property website OnTheMarket.com have agreed a co-branded online UK property search on the property channel of the Absolutely Magazines website https://absolutely.onthemarket.com. Absolutely Magazines, owned by Zest Media, were launched in 2011 and shortly became London’s fastest growing magazine brand with 17 monthly editions which reach an estimated 1,100,000 readers. From the latest fashion trends to local art exhibitions, interior news to property, Absolutely publications…

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Why is it such hard work to get new instructions in Lettings and Estate Agency?

 

The world has changed. I can say that without any hesitation. Things have changed since the t’interweb became omnipresent, since social media sprang up and took over our lives’, since newspaper advertising became deceased, since the mobile phones became glued to our hands, since Rightmove and Zoops are the places where people search for property,…

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Christopher Watkin

Purplebricks and Onliners 397 – Traditional Estate Agents 6,517

 

That would be some football match score! Part of my job is going round the Country giving talks / seminars / workshops to groups of estate and letting agents. The amount of nectar points I am collecting with the train miles I am clocking up – I will be able to have my Christmas shopping…

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Christopher Watkin

ONTHEMARKET.COM ACHIEVES RECORD TRAFFIC OF MORE THAN 10M VISITS IN SEPTEMBER

 

OnTheMarket.com reported yesterday that it achieved a record level of traffic of more than 10million visits throughout the month of September.* The figure of 10million visits is a rise of 79% year on year. In September last year, OnTheMarket.com recorded 5.6million visits. Throughout last month, the portal also delivered a record number of leads to…

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July 2016 marks twelfth consecutive month of growth for OnTheMarket.com and a 17% increase year on year

 

Property website OnTheMarket.com today reports that the number of estate and letting agent offices listing on the website has grown every month since the start of August, 2015. July 2016 marked the portal’s twelfth consecutive month of growth. OnTheMarket.com – which is now just over 18 months old – had more than 6,400 listing offices…

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Interview with Purplebricks – Some Answers you want to know:

 

Is property selling nationally at a fast pace with Purplebricks or are there more so hot-spots that you are successfully breaking into? Firstly, Purplebricks isn’t an online estate agent – we are a full service estate agent and we’re successfully selling thousands of homes every month throughout the UK and have an excellent track record…

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Christopher Walkey

OnTheMarket.com grows listing offices by more than 10% in 6 months

 

The number of estate and letting agent offices listing at OnTheMarket.com has grown 10 per cent during the first half of the year. (Jan – June) At the beginning of January, more than 5,700 offices were listing on the website and at the end of June, the number had grown to more than 6,300 offices….

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Another record breaking month for OnTheMarket.com

 

OnTheMarket.com’s traffic and leads both reached record levels again in June. OnTheMarket.com received over 8 million visits in the month (source: Google Analytics). Visit numbers have increased 33% since January 2016. The number of agent offices listing with OnTheMarket.com continues to grow. Ian Springett, Chief Executive of OnTheMarket.com, said: “We continue to work to build…

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FIVE BRANCH ESTATE AGENCY FIRM JOINS ONTHEMARKET.COM

 

Meller Braggins, a five branch estate agency firm in Cheshire, has joined OnTheMarket.com. Established in 1836, Meller Braggins has offices in Knutsford, Wilmslow, Northwich, Stockton Heath and Macclesfield. The firm will now be listing all of its properties for sale and to rent at OnTheMarket.com and Rightmove. It has removed its properties from Zoopla. OnTheMarket.com…

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Can you sell property without Zoopla or Rightmove?

 

Given the huge portal costs and the attempts by the On The Market to break this duopoly, can you successfully sell a property as an estate agency without using these three behemoths? Most industry experts would laugh and say no. It’s impossible. The reach of Rightmove and Zoopla is so extensive that you’d be seriously…

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‘Noise and scaremongering from the detractors only makes us stronger’: OnTheMarket.com agents remain defiant

 

Member agents who back OnTheMarket.com have written to the portal’s management team to pledge their unwavering support. In the wake of what many agents see as a concerted attack from detractors who feel threatened by the continued growth of the portal, the messages all convey strong support for the portal and strong conviction that it…

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