Portals
‘OnTheMarket.com will go from strength to strength’, says Knight Frank’s Noel Flint
The Board Directors of Agents’ Mutual have reaffirmed that they have every confidence in OnTheMarket.com as the portal approaches its one year anniversary on January 26, 2016. In the first of a series of comments from the Directors representing estate agency firms on the Board, Noel Flint, Partner, Head of London Residential at Knight Frank,…
Alex Evans
Purplebricks first day of dealing.
The first day of dealings yesterday of Purplebricks the first online estate agency to float on the junior AIM market proved somewhat disappointing. The flotation price was at £1, the end of day price was 93p, a disappointing 7% drop on the day. Major shareholders include top fund manager Neil Woodford, Paul Pindar, former chief…
Allen Walkey
Property Portals.
With so much talk of property portals currently and the monopoly of the ‘big 2. Or as I like to call them Thing One and Thing Two. We could take advice from that Master of Rhyme Dr Seuss when he says why stop at just Thing one and Thing two when you can have thing…
Alex Evans
Support for OnTheMarket.com exceeds 6,000 agent offices.
The level of overall support for OnTheMarket.com has reached in excess of 6,000 UK estate and letting agent offices. The figure – which consists of contracted members and agents who have signed a Letter of Intent to join OnTheMarket.com when total support reaches 7,500 offices – was achieved less than 10 months after the launch of the portal in…
Christopher Walkey
‘OnTheMarket provides high quality leads & progress is impressive’, say agents.
News provided to Estate Agent Networking from Agents Mutual: Member agents of OnTheMarket.com have revealed how the portal is providing them with high quality leads and remain impressed with its strengths and achievements in just nine months. Their testimonials – which can be viewed here – raise many points about what the portal is achieving for them. These include…
Christopher Walkey
AGENTS SHOULD SEEK OUT £1.5BN FEE INCOME FROM BUY-TO-LET
THE founder of the dedicated property investment search portal, Buy2Let.com has today warned that estate agents shying away from buy-to-let in the wake of new Government measures to try and stifle the market are missing out on their share of £1.5bn in fee income. Martin Wilkinson, who launched the portal this summer, says that despite…
Alex Evans
Statement by OnTheMarket.com
Following Zoopla’s trading update this morning, please see below a statement from OnTheMarket.com. Ian Springett, Chief Executive of OnTheMarket.com said: “Zoopla Property Group’s latest trading update serves to highlight the success of OnTheMarket.com, which is already firmly established as a leading portal. “The key fact is that over 90 per cent of our member agents…
Allen Walkey
Agents’ Mutual’s latest ‘letter of intent’: what’s in it for agents?
The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the boundaries of law. In particular the law sees Consumers are vulnerable. And legislation and regulation has to be in place to ensure consumers interests are best protected, and represented. Estate agents too can be…
Alex Evans
Are 5,000 UK Agents Losing The Springett In Their Step?
This week Zoopla made a big show and dance about 100 agents returning from their flirtation with OnTheMarket.com (OTM). There was no comment from OTM. Nothing about the 5 year tie-in agents have signed up to and whether OTM would hold agents to this. Just silence. It is confounding how estate agents leave property journalists…
Is Rightmove better value than you might think?
Disclaimer! Okay, let’s get 2 things out of the way. Firstly, I don’t work for any portal. Secondly, I’ve only given RM as an example as it’s the dominant player. “Other portals are available” as they say! Yes, portal charges are a significant cost to any agent. But are they reasonable? Looking deeper, do they…
Alex Evans
Rightmove are changing – and so must your website.
Rightmove have revealed that they are developing a new set of search results for their users via a video on their blog. Head of Lettings, Sam Mitchell gives a 2 minute video outlining exactly what they are doing and the reasons for it. Below is a summary of the video in bullet point form and…
“Zoopla’s trading update underlines success of OnTheMarket”:
Ian Springett, Chief Executive of OnTheMarket.com, said: “Zoopla Property Group’s trading update only serves to underline the success and progress of OnTheMarket.com in continuing to disrupt the property portals market. Its tepid growth of 213 agent branches since its April 2015 update is a drop in the ocean in the context of its 23% loss…
Christopher Walkey
New UK Property Portal Easy Home Finder.
Easy Home Finder is planning to be the next biggest UK property portal that makes searching for a property easy. Check out our YouTube video. Easy Home Finder has been designed to allow estate agents and private landlords a platform to showcase their properties, meaning the target audience is a much wider scale. What’s more Easy…
Service charges – the lifeblood of block management?
Managing agent or self-manage? Self-management. When leaseholders have had a bad experience with unresponsive or expensive managing agents, it can seem like a much more appealing option. And it’s true, for smaller blocks of flats, self-managing can mean a better quality of block management and better value for money. Saving money on administration and investing…
Your vendor’s property could be the perfect pring investor property…
This week a new property website launched. No, it’s not another Rightmove, and no, estate agents don’t pay to be on it – happy days! The new property investment website www.pring.co.uk offers investors and potential investors the largest collection of UK investment properties on one website with the ability to search for properties using unique…
Alex Evans