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Zoopla Integrates Acquisitions, Stays Aggressive

In: Happenings Elsewhere| Property News

20 Oct 2009

Zoopla, the property portal for estate agents, have been busy bees for the last few months. They acquired both Thinkproperty and Propertyfinder for undisclosed sums and are now integrating them into the main website, taking over their user bases in the process.
Zoopla seem to have taken a really aggressive strategy right from the start [...]

Would Image Search Work For House Sales?

In: Happenings Elsewhere

15 Sep 2009

Houseofnothing.com is a classifieds portal in the US that works a little differently to traditional portals. Instead of having a homepage search box (like BeTheMiddleman.com for instance), or a category system, you just browse images to find what you want. Take a look at a screenshot:

This is a really interesting concept, but would browsing by [...]

Zoopla Lures Estate Agents With Offer

In: Happenings Elsewhere| Property News

24 Aug 2009

Further to Zoopla’s aggressive move to steal rival Rightmove’s place as the number 1 property portal for estate agents, they’re now offering agents 2 months free use of their website.
Ordinarily, agents using Zoopla have to pay £5 for an owner lead and £1 for an applicant lead. This special offer means that buyer and [...]

Zoopla Are Fastest Growing Portal In The UK

In: Happenings Elsewhere

21 Aug 2009

Perhaps unsurprisingly, what with their buyout of PropertyFinder, Zoopla have just released figures showing that they were the fastest growing property portal in the UK during July. Zoopla’s figures use averages taken from Nielsen & comScore:
Zoopla.co.uk 20.28%
Propertyfinder Group 17.07%
Nestoria 11.83%
Trovit Homes 11.23%
Globrix 11.00%
Digital Property Group 10.38%
Rightmove 5.66%
Trinity Mirror Network 1.47%
Home.co.uk 1.28%
Fish4Homes -13.80%
Total for Top 10 [...]

Rightmove Make 19.9m Half Year Profit

In: Happenings Elsewhere| Property News

21 Aug 2009

Rightmove have just posted a £19.9 million half-year operating profit. This is slightly down on the same time last year – revenue from the company has actually fallen by 11%
Despite this and despite Zoopla making aggressive moves on their territory, Rightmove remain the market leaders with a 2% increase in the number of estate agents [...]

Zoopla Lays Down The Gauntlet

In: Happenings Elsewhere| Property News

19 Aug 2009

Alex Chesterman, founder and chief executive of Zoopla, has signalled his intention to take on market leaders Rightmove in the property portal stakes. Rightmove is currently the leading property website for estate agents, with the Daily Mail group in second place. Zoopla have recently embarked on a series of buy-outs however, snapping up both Thinkproperty [...]

Zoopla Acquires PropertyFinder.com

In: Happenings Elsewhere| Property News

8 Aug 2009

Zoopla, the property website that puts you in touch with estate agents, has just acquired the PropertyFinder Group which includes websites propertyfinder.com, hotproperty.co.uk and ukpropertyshop.co.uk. It’s less than a month since Zoopla announced their acquisition of thinkproperty.com, so they’re certainly making a big effort at the moment to grow the business by acquiring more web [...]

Tepilo.com Gets Some Good PR

In: Happenings Elsewhere

28 Jul 2009

The new online venture from Sarah Beeny, Tepilo.com, has been getting some good PR this week with an article in the Telegraph and a mention in her interview on the RatandMouse property blog. Tepilo.com aims to help people sell their own homes just like Bethemiddleman.com and we’re pleased to see that someone as high-profile as [...]

Rightmove Had 134million Page Views!

In: Happenings Elsewhere

23 Jul 2009

According to Rightmove on Twitter, they experienced their busiest week ever last week with 134 million page views! Now, we know a bit about the internet and can honestly say that’s a lot of traffic!
It just goes to show that the property market is still a big deal to the average consumer even if they [...]

Globrix Redesign Site

In: Happenings Elsewhere

22 Jul 2009

Property search engine Globrix has had a bit of a redesign this week, concentrating on the homepage, ‘featured property’ page and property listing pages. We quite like the quick-loading maps on each property page – after all, we’re using Google Maps ourselves. A little too much space is devoted to links and information above the [...]


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