Posts Tagged ‘Zoopla

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, 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 [...]


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