Portals
PROPERTYPAL REPORTS RECORD TRAFFIC IN JANUARY.
Northern Ireland’s largest property website, PropertyPal.com has reported record traffic and enquiry levels for January 2016. With over 1.8 million visits, generating in excess of 19 million pages* viewed on the site for the period. Internal audience figures released today show that PropertyPal.com has broken all previous traffic and enquiry records in January 2016. Reflecting…
Christopher Walkey
‘OnTheMarket.com is working for us, no question!’, say agents
Estate and letting agents advertising their properties at OnTheMarket.com have confirmed that the portal is supplying them with a growing volume of high-quality leads. New testimonials – which can be read here – raise many points about the portal’s performance. These include the following: The volume of high-quality leads supplied by OnTheMarket.com continues to increase as the…
‘OnTheMarket.com has the potential to become Britain’s leading portal’, says MD of Glentree Estates.
Trevor Abrahmsohn, Managing Director of Glentree Estates and a Non-Executive Director of Agents’ Mutual, comments on the growth of OnTheMarket.com as the portal marks its first birthday: As a founding member of OnTheMarket.com, I have watched it grow from just an idea into what it is today – a powerful player which has injected the…
OnTheMarket.com announces a record month of traffic and agent recruitment
OnTheMarket.com reports today that it achieved a record level of traffic throughout the month of January. Total visits were in excess of 6million throughout the month from 2.8million unique visitors.* These figures include a record number of visits to the newly updated OnTheMarket.com iOS and Android apps. January also saw the portal’s highest ever number…
Charging up the Portal Market in Spain.
With the amount of property in Spain in the hands of foreign owners and an unfathomable amount of estate agents on the ground, portal advertising has become the norm and an essential expense for agents working within the resale market. RightMove Overseas, Zoopla/Prime Location and Place in the Sun have carved themselves a serious market share…
Zoopla’s PR handed over to Brands2Life.
Latest news in the property portal world shows: “Zoopla, the UK’s most comprehensive property website, has appointed Brands2Life to handle its consumer PR. Brands2Life successfully acquired the contract of PR for one of the UK’s biggest names in the property industry, Zoopla, taking over from Wriglesworth Consultancy’s long standing association. Find out more about Brands2Life here:…
Christopher Walkey
OnTheMarket.com continues to provide a ‘high standard of leads’, say agents
More estate and letting agents advertising their properties at OnTheMarket.com have confirmed that the portal is providing them with ‘an extremely high standard of leads’. A new round of testimonials – which can be read here – raise many points about how the agents think the portal performed throughout 2015. These include the following: •…
How estate agents can be more productive and benefit from outsourcing their admin job.
As a professional estate agent myself for 15 years based in Dubai, I have witnessed that selling a property is evolving day by day. Smart phones are playing better role. Competition among agencies and agents is increasing based on how quick and energetic they are. Realtors have two main jobs one is doing the actual work…
Free to use Property Portals – Are you really interested?
Cracking the property portal scene could mean a hefty profit coming your way, but is it really achievable without ‘high finance’ or ‘knowing the right people’? They say that to have a serious contender to the likes of Rightmove and Zoopla would require £100 million marketing budget to get the website working and both the…
Christopher Walkey
‘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,…
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…
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…