Yopa, DailyMail and Savills… Onward and upwards with Online Estate Agency it seems

May 17, 2017

It would appear the fear of online estate agency is now more or less a standard acceptance across the board, that it is likely to be part of or most of the future of estate agency in years to come. Be it major high street estate agencies or investment companies / media companies / consumer investors, they are all pinning hopes that this new arm to selling property will be the way forward and investments will see returns in the not too long distance.

Recently Daily Mail and Savills Estate Agents were the latest to throw money to online estate agency with a 16 million pot being their contribution it is said to fund Yopa who only recently formed to go forth and multiply their footprint in UK estate agency.

So, all just scared people putting money in just in case things do take off, just like that 1 penny share you have been eyeing up for the last year, maybe it is calculated estimations that online estate agency will continue to bite into the share of the market or maybe something totally different on the agenda?

Eitherway, Yopa have big money in the pot to spend so expect more boards, more TV advertising, Underground station banner adverts, newspaper ads and a whole new hated word in the property industry to rival that of PurpleBricks… Online estate agency… Hybrid… certainly have pockets full of money to spend on making them even more of a trend going forwards.

To read the full in-depth report, go to the Daily Mail website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-3623631/High-street-estate-agent-Savills-goes-digital-buys-minority-stake-online-rival-YOPA.html

Christopher Walkey

Founder of Estate Agent Networking. Internationally invited speaker on how to build online target audiences using Social Media. Writes about UK property prices, housing, politics and affordable homes.

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