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RES.NET: New Homepage Launched

by Property Portal Watch 20 June, 2013

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

by Alistair Helm 19 June, 2013

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

by Property Portal Watch

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

by Property Portal Watch 18 June, 2013

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

by Property Portal Watch

Together with SMART EXPO, the company will be the exclusive overseas partner for the Shanghai LuxProperty 2013.

DSSMove.co.uk Inventory on the Increase

by Property Portal Watch

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

by Property Portal Watch 17 June, 2013

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

by Property Portal Watch

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

by Property Portal Watch

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..."