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Do Portals Need Google Maps?

May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Before I dive into the why (and the how for all our neogeo mapping freaks amongst our readership), let me say that Google maps remains a phenomenal service that is continually adding amazingly innovative new functionalities. The boom in online cartography witnessed over the last years was kicked off by the launch of Google maps, and I can still remember the light bulb going on in my head when in early 2005 I saw housingmaps.com, the first Google maps mashup. It was clear I was looking at the future. A little over a year later, in June 2006, we launched Nestoria. So I am the first to recognize … [Read more...]

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FindaProperty Rolls Out Smart TV App

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Technology is constantly improving and evolving. As you may have already noticed, smart phones are actually mini-PCs, well the next generation of smart TVs are also miniature computers, attach one to a large flat screen and it can be used to surf the internet and to watch your favourite movie or TV series. FindaProperty.com has taken note of this (as has Redfin in the US) and because of it, the company has introduced their first property search app geared for the smart TV, for clients looking to buy, rent, let, sell or simply because they enjoy browsing for property from the comfort of … [Read more...]

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Another 1,000+ New Agent Branches for Zoopla

May 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
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Zoopla.co.uk has announced that, in its first quarter of this year, the company has added nearly 1,200 new estate and letting agent branches to its website, bringing its total number of paying members to almost 12,000. Making this the largest quarterly increase in advertisers for the property portal since its launch four years ago. Zoopla now has 600,000 property listings available on its website. Among some of the new agent groups to have joined Zoopla are: Beresfords (Essex), Dawsons (Wales), Farrell Heyworth (North West), Greenslade Newton Fallowell (East Midlands), Putterills … [Read more...]

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s1homes Sends 4 Times More Leads to Agents

April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 One of Scotland’s biggest property sites, s1homes.com, is reporting more leads to agents and added visits to the site following the website’s facelift and a successful TV campaign. After conducting extensive usability research, the company decided, that a new improved , simpler and more user-friendly site was to be rolled out in February of this year. s1homes claims the upgrated site meets the needs of both home seekers and estate agents more efficiently, by helping home seekers find what their looking for easier and subsequently increasing the number of leads to agents. According … [Read more...]

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Chinese TV network plans global real estate portal

April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Editor's note: This item is republished with permission from Global Edge Marketing Ltd. The original article can be viewed here. Chinese Network Television (CNTV) is set to launch an overseas property portal in partnership with United Kingdom-based 3rd Space, a provider of international distribution and content services. The service will feature residential and commercial property as well as holiday rentals and aims to be "an all-inclusive international property resource," according to a statement from CNTV yesterday. Last year, two property portals, Lucky Wu and Juwai.com, both … [Read more...]

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Top 10 UK Property Portals – February Update

March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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In January we saw that the UK property portal market is dominated by Rightmove.  We also saw that even acting as a group, The Digital Property Group is unable to surpass Rightmove. To no ones surprise this has not changed in February. All numbers are prepared using Google Ad Planner’s February 2012 numbers. For the sake of consistency, we have included the Digital Property Group numbers in the results to.  These include primelocation.com, findaproperty.co.uk and globrix.com. Traffic Rightmove continues to dominate the market.  No surprise here.  In fact the top 6 remain … [Read more...]

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Rightmove’s Android app reviewed

March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Rightmove has launched a property search app for Android, adding to an existing portfolio that includes iPad and iPhone apps, and a mobile-optimised site that sees 835,000 visits a month. The app features a Google Street View function, full screen photos and floor plans, and allows users to contact estate agents directly. Rightmove communications manager Tom McGuigan said that aim of the new app was to make searching for properties easier and quicker for Android users. We've had our mobile site since 2010, so Android users have been well catered for, but a native app makes the process … [Read more...]

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The battle of the property portals – Rigthmove vs DPG vs Zoopla – Who Wins?

March 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
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Last week we published a list of the top 10 property portals in the UK by a number of measures – most notably unique users as reported by Google Ad Planner. The results clearly showed Rightmove as head and shoulders about the competition. The team at the Digital Property Group pointed out that when they sign up an advertiser, they don’t get just one site but actually three – findaproperty.co.uk, primelocation.com and globrix.com. So, to be fair, we have recut the list of the top 10 sites and added an 11th – the Digital Property Group network. So what do we learn? Well … [Read more...]

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UK top 10 Property Portals

March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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In the UK market, Rightmove dominates.  In fact this has really not changed for the last 5 – 10 years. Back in 2005, the property portal market had four main players – Rightmove, Primelocation, Findaproperty and Propertyfinder. In 2009 Zoopla acquired propertyfinder for a bargain to rocket itself into the top three. According to Google Ad Planner, in January 2012 Rightmove had 6.7 million unique users visit the site.  Second place was a tie between findaproperty.co.uk and zoopla.co.uk with Primelocation rounding out the top four. No wonder Rightmove has just announced record results … [Read more...]

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Rightmove’s Simplicity Delivers

February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The old adage of ‘sticking to your knitting’ definitely applies to the Rightmove business. Once again they have delivered outstanding results and have showed the world that continued profitable growth can be achieved by focusing on one thing and doing it exceptionally well. For the 12 months ended 31 December 2011, Rightmove grew revenues by 19% from GBP 81.6m (US$129.5m) to GBP 97.0m (US$153.9m). In doing so, the business also delivered a profit before tax of GBP 69.3m (US$109.7m) – a whooping 71.4% of revenues. Driving this strong revenue and EBT growth has been a continued … [Read more...]

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