Latest News
RES.NET: New Homepage Launched
New RES.NET site offers improved communication by easily connecting estate agents with consumers, and becomes source for training, industry news.
Industry Owned Portals – the Aspiration
Alistair Helm’s opinion on industry owned property portals is that, whilst the idea is well intentioned, it is not well focused or likely to succeed.
Zillow Launches Agentfolio
Mobile and online communication and co-shopping platform for agents and their clients; First markets include Chicago, Boston, New York City.
Move, Inc.: Renewed Integration with MSN
The seven-year relationship between Move, Inc. and MSN, continues to provide consumers with the most accurate real estate listings.
iProperty Group to Host Property Expos in China
Together with SMART EXPO, the company will be the exclusive overseas partner for the Shanghai LuxProperty 2013.
DSSMove.co.uk Inventory on the Increase
Dssmove has invested heavily in its website so that agents can now upload all their listings in seconds and the site will sort the LHA properties.
App vs Mobile Website
A recent study found that when it came to mobile commerce, the top web domains tended to have higher reach than the top applications.
CRREC Makes Strategic Domain Acquisition
Costa Rica Real Estate (CRREC)®, has announced the closing of negotiations in the acquisition of a total of ten new domains.
Google Glass: 5 Things Every Portal Should Know
The question is how and, actually, if Google Glass will affect the way that property and technology interact? Is Glass “Gimmick or Game-Changer?”
Move, Inc.: Renewed Integration with MSN
The seven-year relationship between Move, Inc. and MSN, continues to provide consumers with the most accurate real estate listings.
REA Group Wins Trademark Battle with Realestate2.com.au
The argument which REA Group presented at the Federal Court has been that, realestate1.com.au has presumably been misleading and deceptive.
Office Layout Visualisation Key to Commercial Portals
Commercial property presentation on portals has always been held back by contextual usage – new dynamic visualisation of layouts could solve this
Zoopla Acquires Vizzihome
Zoopla Property Group Ltd has acquired VizziHome Ltd, the leading market intelligence business for UK property professionals, for an undisclosed sum.
Recent Comments
- Alistair Helm on Top 10 UK Property Portals
Thanks - I think you make a valuable point, there are no shortage of portals - or should I say websites whose aspiration is to be Rightmove / Zoopla. These sites did not just get lucky, they took years of
- Alistair Helm on SEO at a Crossroads
A very interesting statement, well in fact a good question. I think the fact is that the nature of SEO allows portals to leverage the larger aggregation of content from individual agent websites' own listings to outrank them. Added to
- Resale Centre on Top 10 UK Property Portals
Don't! There is enough out there already lol! There seems to be a new one every day, the amount of emails we receive from new property portals offering their services is unbelievable, unless you are going to provide something completely
- Resale Centre on SEO at a Crossroads
Since this is PPW website, one thing I have always wondered is portals use content from other people's (in our case, estate agents websites) websites, most use XML feeds importing our data which is basically a carbon copy of our
- Alistair Helm on Top 10 UK Property Portals
Andrew Thanks - a great suggestion, we like it when people say to us "so what about this..."
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RES.NET: New Homepage Launched
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NZfarms.co.nz Partners with Interest.co.nz
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s1homes Celebrates Successful May
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ZPG: Football Teams Revealed
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Zameen 100K Likes on Facebook
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Dedicated Mobile Apps for Agents
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App vs Mobile Website
A recent study found that when it came to mobile commerce, the top web domains tended to have higher reach than the top applications.
Read moreGoogle Glass: 5 Things Every Portal Should Know
The question is how and, actually, if Google Glass will affect the way that property and technology interact? Is Glass "Gimmick or Game-Changer?"
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Squarefoot Launches Android App
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Zillow Redesigns Mortgage Marketplace App
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Trulia Expands Map Visualizations
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Realtor.com® Launches Rentals App
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Fotocasa Rockets Past 1M App Download
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Top Five SEO Mistakes According to Google
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ZipRealty’s New Mobile Website
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Trulia Revamps Products
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ZPG Partners with Barclays for New App
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Alistair Helm Property Portal Watch as CEO
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Groupon Executive Joins Propertyfinder
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VivaReal Hires New VP of Product
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RealtyTrac Hires New Chief Economist
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REIWA’s Charlie Gunningham Exit Interview
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Interview with MagicBricks’ Sudhir Pai
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Stephen Morana Appointed CFO of ZPG
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Lisa Mackey Joins RealtyTrac
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