Portals Today
The veteran local information website UpMyStreet has hit a dead end after its surprise purchase last week by Zoopla...
Rightmove this morning announced a bullish performance to its shareholders after hiking its prices to agents...
A number of NAEA members from the Surrey area have met to discuss the rapidly rising cost of listing their properties on the major portals...
Here’s one for London taxi-spotters: Zoopla has launched a competition to give £5,000 away towards someone’s rent or mortgage payments...
With both Digital and Zoopla embarking on their own expensive new marketing campaigns, aimed at stamping their respective brands into the British psyche, we wondered what had happened to their merger, announced last October 14 and designed to be a credible assault on Rightmove...
Property search engine Nestoria has announced that it is dropping GoogleMaps in favour of OpenStreetMap...
An agent with a one-office operation has been told by Rightmove to expect a 21% increase in charges next year...
We had a mild sense of déjà vu on learning that a newspaper in Australia this week carried the headline: ‘Real estate agents revolt’...
More people than ever are going online to search for property – despite transactions dragging along the floor...
Zoopla has signed an exclusive deal to power the property search feature on AOL UK, which has just gone live...
The Digital sites of Primelocation and Findaproperty appear to be beating Zoopla in terms of the number of searchable properties for sale...
People are spending longer than ever on property websites. In the case of Rightmove, the average user is spending close to an hour on site per month...
Backed by new TV campaigns, FindaProperty and PrimeLocation both had record traffic in May. The publishers, the Digital Property Group, said FindaProperty also delivered record inquiries to estate agents...
There’s no such thing as a bad idea, according to Rightmove. Really? EAT can think of loads, although obviously Twitter is not amongst them, as we've had our wrists well and truly slapped over that one...
Rightmove has launched new microsites to help estate agents who market new-build developments. The revamped new homes section is intended to give agents and developers more exposure for their new-build homes...
A portal feeding service has launched into the UK market. It allows estate agents to put their properties in a single feed into over 100 portals, from around £10 a month...
One third of agents (33%) say they would not run their business without Rightmove – but 36% say they can, and 11% are already running their business without it...
On arguably the worst day of the year as far as agents were concerned, Zoopla went down for much of last Thursday – the day before the long Easter weekend...
email4property, the online estate agency directory owned by the Mirror group, has had its website resdesigned and added property listings...
Did anyone catch Rightmove’s new television ad campaign last night? And was it any coincidence that an ad for FindaProperty was aired, in a prime time slot between 9pm and 10pm? The Rightmove ad carries the tagline ‘Britain moves at Rightmove’ and, says the firm, ‘captures the relationship that the British public have with Rightmove as the place they turn to for buying, selling, renting and letting property in the UK’...
Rightmove has had another record-breaking month of traffic – with more page views than all its rivals put together...
A new windfall tax-per-click is set to be imposed on property portals. The knock-on effect will mean a huge increase in costs for agents – whilst beneficiaries will be first-time buyers...
Britain may not be the largest place in the world, but the size of its housing market has not stopped Rightmove becoming the fourth most successful property portal on the planet...
Rightmove continues to dominate the property portal market, according to the latest data from two independent website traffic monitoring firms...
She admits she doesn’t want to buy a house and yet is addicted to property websites – Rightmove in particular...
Property website Rightmove has launched a new microsite feature on its site for developers. The Development Page allows developers to promote the features and benefits of each site as well as the individual units within it...
Rightmove shares shot up this week following the news that German media company Axel Springer has secured 74...
British portal Zoopla has come top in a new awards scheme for property portals across the globe. It won its section in Western Europe – so far, the only one where the winner has been announced by organisers Property Portal Watch, who say they are making the awards based on the level of innovation...
Rightmove today announced an astonishing year, in which it saw a 26% rise in revenues for 2010, record pre-tax profits, and a 2% rise in membership...
The FindaProperty.com Search App for iPhone is among the top 500 apps across the world newly recommended by The Sunday Times...
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