Another record month of traffic at OnTheMarket.com

Traffic levels at OnTheMarket.com have risen again in another record breaking month. Throughout September, the website achieved 5.6million visits*, compared to 5.4million* in August.  This traffic consisted of more than 2.7million unique visitors*, compared to 2.5million in August*. Last month was also a record month for the number of leads delivered to agents. Ian Springett, Chief…

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OnTheMarket achieves more traffic growth in August.

OnTheMarket.com is delighted to announce that its traffic figures increased again throughout August to achieve another record breaking month. The website achieved more than 5.4million visits* – a rise of more than 22​0,000 compared to the previous month. It also attracted more than 2.5million* unique visitors, an increase of 100,000 compared with July. Ian Springett, Chief…

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COUNTRY LIFE AND ONTHEMARKET.COM ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

Country Life and OnTheMarket.com have agreed a partnership to create a co-branded online UK property search on the Country Life website which has gone live. Country Life, owned by Time Inc UK, is one of the UK’s most iconic magazine brands. Since 1897, it has covered the glorious British countryside, and is famous for featuring…

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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…

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HOW TO DEAL WITH NOISY NEIGHBOURS WHEN SELLING YOUR HOUSE

The time has come, you want or NEED to move house.  For an unfortunate few selling their home is due to noisy neighbours. Having made the difficult decision to move house and put your property on the market, you now have a new issue to deal with – How do you deal with those troublesome…

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#OnTheMarket continues to break traffic records:

Onthemarket are delighted to tell you that they have seen another record breaking month in terms of traffic to OnTheMarket.com. 4.4 million visits Over 2 million unique visitors They are continuing to see strong engagement from consumers in terms of pages viewed per visit and time on site and a high percentage of repeat visitors. This reflects both the quality…

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10 million visits

According to reports UK agents’ website, OnTheMarket.com has attracted 10 million visits in three months, Chief Executive, Ian Springett, reportedly says, “We are confident in becoming the number two property portal by the end of January 2016 on our way to achieving our medium term objective of becoming the market leader.” “We are experiencing impressive…

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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…

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CITB says rise in number of workers reflects housing boom.

The Construction Industry Training Board says the industry must recruit more than 200,000 extra workers in the next 5 years to keep on top of rising demand. For the first time since the downturn, rising spending on housing, leisure and infrastructure will deliver growth in every region of the UK. To deal with the upswing…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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