Portals
Will they trip at first hurdle?
The launch date now fixed for the 26th January by Agents Mutual for their online property portal www.onthemarket.com open only to full-service office-based estate and lettings agents. The founding members of Agents’ Mutual are Savills, Knight Frank, Strutt & Parker, Chesterton Humberts, Douglas & Gordon and Glentree Estates, an impressive list to say the least…
Allen Walkey
“Property Portals” what’s new for 2015.
When we speak about Property Portals who do we automatically think about?…Rightmove..Zoopla…Primelocation..and probably in that order, most agents would agree that the top spot is a straight contest between Rightmove and Zoopla. Different agents have their different reasons for choosing the portal most suitable to their marketing strategy and the region they cover, agents do…
Allen Walkey
The Mass Exodus in Property Portals has commenced?
Names in the limelight regarding Agents Mutual, ie founding members, are being focused on when it comes to who and why of the two major property portals from Rightmove and Zoopla they are ‘dropping’. Just what will all this mean to both the industry in Estate Agents and the Property Portals as well as the…
Christopher Walkey
AgentsMutual, OnTheMarket vs Rightmove, Zoopla and others.
Quite a full title with some impressive names, but what exactly will Agents Mutual, soon to be www.OnTheMarket.com offer to estate agents / letting agents and consumers across the UK over what www.Rightmove.com and www.Zoopla.com offer successfully already? Without taking any position within this debate / topic, let me look at the basics of what…
Christopher Walkey
Agents; get chatting…
“Chatting” can be a key aspect of growing and developing yourself as an agent in today’s competitive market. In today’s 21st century the key to all business and non-business relationships is communication, if you can’t communicate then unfortunately you may struggle. Today’s market is so competitive with agents all being categorised into the same group…
Alex Evans
The What, Why and When of Agents’ Mutual
1. Estate agents, who typically dominate high streets across the UK, pay Rightmove a membership fee to advertise property listings. Property owners and landlords are explicitly not allowed to list on Rightmove directly. 2. Rightmove send buyers and tenants back to agents via email and phone. These people are called ‘leads’. 3. This low-effort way…
Alex Evans
Agent Mutual – A new beginning or false dawn?
And so Agent Mutual finally confirms its brand name- on the market! not very original but I suppose easily remembered and relevant. It also triumphantly claims over 3000 member offices of various colour shades as it prepares to take on the duopoly of the mighty property portals Rightmove and Zoopla. So is it the charge…
Alex Evans
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