Release the Pressure with Pay Per Lead
Nicholas Marr is CEO and founder of Marr International, the company behind UK based overseas property website homesgofast.com, which has been running since 2003. Nicholas is also a lifetime property investor who has a passion for international real estate, and appears on Television show ‘Ask the Property Expert’ on Overseas Property TV.
Here, Nicholas Marr shares with propertyportalwatch.com some of his ideas about the best business models for portals:
Interview with Henry Pryor – eabg.co.uk
Henry Pryor (image copyright: Jim Varney)
UK estate agents have been grumbling for some time about the high fees big name portals extract from them.
Henry Pryor has formed the Estate Agency Buying Group, to band together smaller estate agency firms in order to negotiate the best terms possible for 2009 with property portals.
Why rightmove should acquire propertyfinder
Times are tough in the UK market at the moment and it seems to me that the best value creating play would be a merger of rightmove and propertyfinder and therefore increase the gap between rightmove and the rest of the market.
realtor.com Leads but trulia.com Gains Ground
October Hitwise figures for real estate, based on US Internet usage, have been released.
realtor.com continues to dominate in both market share and search terms, while trulia.com makes small gains.
daft.ie Still Ireland’s Number 1
Ireland’s oldest and biggest property website, daft.ie, has released ABC electronic audit figures that show it’s still the number one destination for house buyers and renters in Ireland.
Latest News
Australia | UK | US | Other Markets
nestoria.co.uk Partnership with The Telegraphrealestateview.com.au “Fastest Growing” Threat
daft.ie Launches rent.ie as Test Bed
trulia.com Number 1 Lead Generator
zoomf.com Parent Company Sinks
Yahoo! Real Estate on the Rise
globrix.com Takes On Europe and South America
rightmove.co.uk Takeover Bid Rumours
Spanish Classifieds Axe Print Version
propertyindex.com Ups The Ante in UK
domain.com.au Deal With ninemsn.com.au
forsalebyowner.com Ads on realtor.com
Opinions
Release the Pressure with Pay Per LeadNicholas Marr is CEO and founder of Marr International, the company behind UK based overseas property...
Why rightmove should acquire propertyfinderTimes are tough in the UK market at the moment and it seems to me that the best value creating play...
Is Globrix Under Pressure in the UK?The much hyped Globrix was recently quoted as saying that pay-to-list portals have had their day, however...
UK Portal Fees May Increase for SomeRecently we reported on an announcement that fees would not be rising in 2009 for major UK portals primelocation.com...
Analysis
Are Agents Getting More Value from rightmove?While advertisers on rightmove.co.uk have been decreasing, the number of enquiries has been increasing...
Traffic to UK Property Portal Sites (Sep 2008)The ComScore numbers are out for September 2008. propertyfinder.com and zoopla.co.uk were the big...
Comparison of Listed Stocks (Oct 08)In this month’s comparison we can see that the down turn in the global market is continuing to...
Lastest Overviews
ezylet.comHaving launched in mid 2007, ezylet.com claims to be the fastest growing rental portal in the UK –...
breeze-france.combreeze-france.com is a completely new property search website, launched in beta in September 2008. One...
1Rai.com1Rai.com is a leading property portal in Thailand, advertising homes and land for sale across all provinces....
rightmove.co.ukrightmove.co.uk is the UK’s number one property website. Rightmove advertises more residential property...
Strategies for Tough Times!
Property Portal Watch Workshop in NYC
We have teamed with InmanNews to create a FREE one day workshop on the 6th January 2009 in New York, the day before Inman Connect. Our workshop brings together property portal operators from around the world to look at the hottest issues facing their businesses today.
We also have 50 free tickets (est value $900) to the Inman Connect Conference.
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