Portals
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…
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…
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…
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…
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