Portals Today
With property portals providing a steady stream of applicants, many agents find that the issue isn't letting a property but rather finding the stock in the first place...
Scottish portal Citylets has announced record traffic. It says visitors were up by 25% this January on a year ago, making last month its busiest on record...
Nick Salmon's call to agents to support the concept of PropertyLive as an agent-owned site becoming a ‘line in the sand' against excessive portal charges has provoked a very strong and positive response, he said last night...
Rents in Scotland appear to have risen sharply following the ban on fees charged to tenants. The rise also follows Shelter’s campaign encouraging tenants to reclaim their fees, and the implementation of tenancy deposit protection, requiring agents to physically hand over both current and ongoing deposits to a banking scheme...
PropertyLive, the portal set up by NFoPP, is to close. The announcement was made yesterday and brings to an end an expensive project for the NAEA and ARLA...
Scottish lettings website Citylets, which last year gave up syndicating its listings to major UK-wide portals, has reported that its visitor traffic last year was 12...
Nick Leeming has joined the Belvoir board of directors as a non-executive director. The highly respected Leeming has over 30 years’ experience in the property sector, having co-founded Propertyfinder in 1996 – the first of the UK’s property portals...
A new, exclusive partnership between two leading letting portals As part of Zoopla’s recent merger with Digital Property Group, a new deal has arisen that changes the way that portals in Scotland are distributed...
Zoopla has announced a new lettings distribution partner in Scotland, where Rightmove has a small overall presence in the property portals market and where lettings agents are being battered out of existence by new legislative moves...
The post summer downturn can be the best time to move for tenants, according to leading portals September is traditionally the time when the frenetic summer of the lettings market begins to wind down, as students and other summer-movers settle into their new accommodation...
A new property web portal will connect agents and landlords with people claiming housing benefit and who are looking for private rental accommodation...
Online lettings business OpenRent is to expand its landlord service to include listing on Zoopla, FindAProperty and Primelocation as well as Rightmove – while at the same time offering free listings to all new customers...
Online traffic heading in the direction of new homes has plenty of signposts both to guide and confuse...
What House? digital magazine. Conceived by specialist new homes portal http://www.whathouse.co.ukand launching the week commencing 19th March 2012, this monthly publication will be sent initially to some 600,000 house-hunters who are considering purchasing a brand new home...
The FindaProperty.com Search App for iPhone is among the top 500 apps across the world newly recommended by The Sunday Times...
The Digital Property Group, publishers of FindaProperty and Primelocation, has announced the resignation of its long-serving sales director, Jon Notley...
The NFoPP website PropertyLive is the subject of a new local advertising campaign in the midlands...
Rightmove has said that social networking is working well in terms of driving traffic. It says visitor numbers from Facebook and Twitter have tripled in the last year...
A furious estate agent who objected to the latest pricing from Rightmove says he was told he would be saving £600 on the price for a new joiner...
Both Zoopla and the Digital Property Group are claiming to be the number two property portal in the UK...
Agents whose properties appear – often without their knowledge or consent – on the website NetMovers are in a ‘win win’ situation, the firm’s director has said...
A record-breaking month of traffic in January has moved Rightmove up to become the eighth busiest website for UK users...
FindaProperty is to partner with this year’s Ideal Home Show to power a property portal within the event’s website...
Rightmove’s shares continued to soar to new highs after the announcement that Google is withdrawing from the property portal market...
Google Maps is to drop property, less than a year after the launch that threatened to change the entire property portal market...
Property portal Zoopla has signed a long-term deal with local newspaper owners Archant to power its online property channel, homes24...
German publishing giant Axel Springer has raised its bid for French property website SeLoger.com by 12%, valuing the company at 634 million euros...
Property portal Zoopa has become the first of the major UK property portals to launch an app for users of Android powered smartphones...
Rightmove has been quietly testing a new social media website. The 'Placebook' of social networking, it has massive potential by effectively giving every local community in Britain their own individual website...
Property portal Zoopla has made a top appointment in Charlotte Harper as marketing director, as it aggressively ramps up its presence...
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This data is gathered from the properties let by Lettingweb on a weekly basis, and can be used to show trends in rental prices from year to year...
The private rented sector in the UK is continually growing; increasing property prices mean that purchasing property is out of many people's capabilities, and therefore the only alternative is to rent...
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