Portals
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…
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
Will the Zoopla Power 100 get you more properties to sell or rent?
I have built up some good friendships and acquaintances from this social media lark.I always like to make the next step and pick up the phone, to talk to a real person, have a chat, maybe share a joke. After a while, we start to build a relationship and from that I have recommended people…
Christopher Watkin
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
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