Mind Games? Who has the best poker Hand? Zoopla steps on Rightmove:

March 20, 2020
zoopla and rightmove

An attention grabbing 9 months of Zoopla for free if your agency leaves / promises to leave Rightmove is the latest move in the property portal wars. OntheMarket also reacting to the current climate of coronavirus with the offer of 3-month, 33% monthly listing fee discount as a payment support initiative for their customers.

Rightmove who have been hitting the headlines with a lot of grumbles from their users with posts on Facebook such as “Fed up of being treated like shit by Rightmove?” are once again seeing red from their customers.

Will Rightmove come over the top of Zoopla’s latest offer? Do they hold the better hand or will the recent negatives among a long string of them aimed at Rightmove open the door for new #proptech themed portals to make themselves an entrenchment in the industry?

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