Portals
The joy of learning & the importance of embracing it!
As an industry, estate agency has never been renowned for embracing technological innovation and learning new ideas as quickly as some other industries I could mention. I have never quite understood the dinosaur culture that exists amongst many – anything that simplifies and speeds up processes, helps improve communication and make us more approachable to…
Alex Evans
OnTheMarket Property Portal – Blog for Estate Agent Networking:
We launched OnTheMarket.com on Monday, January 26 2015 with the clear goal of introducing much needed competition into the propertyportal marketplace. In the short time since then, we have created a genuine sea-change within the portals market. We currently have more than 5,000 contracted offices and this is only the beginning. Our next goal is to…
Christopher Walkey
Online portal news
We are never short on news when it comes to claims and counter claims on numbers re the three “most in the news” online portals, Rightmove, Zoopla and Onthemarket, it can be said OTM have not as yet really proved themselves long term in the sector as they only just launched at the beggining of…
Allen Walkey
RIGHTMOVE, ZOOPLA, ON THE MARKET: Technicweb Stats!
There has been a lot of talk in the industry over the last few months about OnTheMarket and the wedge that they are going to drive between Rightmove and Zoopla. As an impartial bystander we have been interested to watch the effect that this has had on clients of ours and also how many of…
ZOOPLA… Record levels of Consumer traffic.
It will be sometime yet before the picture clears as to the way the main property portals are performing and which computation proves the best one for any particular agent or group of agencies to adopt. It is just about a fortnight now since the launch of Onthemarket.com and during that period there have been…
Allen Walkey
Who’s taken over who – #Houser and #NeedAProperty.
Estate Agent Networking have been sent this editorial from the team at Houser, for those wanting to keep ahead of the busy activities within the UK property portal news: Houser.co.uk acquires NeedaProperty Ltd assets and re-launches giving agents 5 years free (London, January 2015) Houser.co.uk, the newly launched property search engine for the UK has decided…
Christopher Walkey
Online Estate Agents – Investments are flowing their way…
Online estate agents seem to sometime get very negative and anti feedback online, especially via social media where our LinkedIn group sometimes sees non positive thoughts as to whether an estate agency can be called one if their presence is only online. I myself, though not an estate agent, have received calls from estate agents…
Christopher Walkey
On The Move – Is It Worth The Move?
Monday 26th January will see the official launch of new property portal OnTheMarket.com. Founded by Savills, Knight Frank, Strutt & Parker, Chestertons, Douglas & Gordon and Glenntree Estates, OnTheMove is an attempt to break up the current power that Zoopla and Rightmove hold over estate agents – however, their controversial terms mean that estate agents who sign…
Why the UK Estate Agency market needs an Open Data revolution?
The real estate portal business in the UK is perhaps witnessing its biggest shift in the past 10 years. The change is, of course, prompted by the launch of OnTheMarket, a new property portal, created by a some of the largest high street estate agents to challenge the dominance of the two biggest portals, Rightmove…
Alex Evans
Houser.co.uk announce Information Removal Interface in the Pipeline.
Hopefully some helpful updates from Houser.co.uk for those estate agents that have a concern about their property listings appearing on their website: “Since our official launch we have been overwhelmed by thousands of emails from agents and a small percentage of them was from those who wanted to remove their listings. While we are responding to queries…
Christopher Walkey
We’ve exemption for the ‘one other property portal’ rule…. phew!
Student property portal receives the all clear from AgentsMutual, they are not ‘one other property portal’ in the eyes of OnTheMarket: “I can confirm that whilst your focus in on student accommodation, you are exempt from our rule.” Roxanne Blankson Sales and Marketing Support Executive Agents’ Mutual – OnTheMarket.com StudentCrowd enables letting agents to list all student properties for free. To…
Christopher Walkey
Why are Estate Agents running with OnTheMarket?
I have spent time to visit a few estate agents who have declared they are running with OnTheMarket, simple to spot many as they’ve crowded their window displays with, as consumers say, RAF logos! Infact, I spoke to one of two consumers who said, some actually went inside their local agency to ask, they thought…
Christopher Walkey
New sites will add to competition online .
Where ever we seem to look these days there seems to be changes taking place within the property industry, the portals sector appears to be attracting the most attention, most readers who follow blog sites like this one will have seen a string of announcements recently re sites being launched. Lets run through a few…
Allen Walkey
Fly on the Wall.
Being a fly on the wall these days in the boardrooms of either Rightmove or Zoopla would be very interesting indeed, I am sure the only subject that is being discussed by the directors at present is the effect that onthemarket.com will have on their business from Jan 26th 2015 onwards. Their major concern of…
Allen Walkey
Houser.co.uk – First Look Ahead of January 2015 Launch – big data play.
As we bid farewell to this 2014, I am honestly excited for the new year ahead because early in the year the Estate Agency Industry is going to see the launch of couple of new startups. I recently wa invited to take a look at Houser.co.uk, which has been flying under the radar so far. I was…
Christopher Walkey