Property Portal Watch

Join us in Barcelona for the 2024 PPW Europe Conference from the 2nd - 4th October at the Hilton Hotel.

We already have great companies registered including Rightmove, Dubizzle Group, Lifull Connect, Swiss Marketplaces Group, and Ringier. Are you coming?

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We have launched the PPW Podcast series. We discuss the key issues facing the PropTech and property marketplace industry. Check it out on one of the links below ... even better subscribe and tell us what you think!

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Great article by Edmund Keith from Online Marketplaces Group talking about the future of search. If you find this interesting, we will be discussing this topic and others at the 2024 PPW Conference in Bangkok - find out more ... www.ppwbangkok24.com

What Does The Future Of Real Estate Search Look Like? | Online Marketplaces The Property Portal Watch conferences are where real estate portals discuss and sometimes catch a glimpse of their future.

"In the Dutch market you have 23,000 houses for sale on funda and you have more than 300-400 thousand potential buyers"

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In the first of our new series of interviews exploring businesses shaking up the marketplace model, cirkl.nl founder Jeroen Wilhelm tells us how his company is planning to grease the wheels of a stagnated Dutch .

Jeroen Wilhelm tells us how Cirkl is preparing to grease the wheels of the stagnated Dutch market 00:22 - Jeroen's background in real estate01:03 - About Cirkl02:30 - Cirkl's progress03:22 - How have agents reacted to the idea?04:29 - Cirkl's funding05:20...

OPINION: Property portals should be doing more for fair housing.

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With big thanks to those who contributed: Ankit, Paul Malone from MovingSoon, Darius Cheung of 99.co Indonesia and Property24

Opinion: Property Portals Are Not Doing Enough For Fair Housing | Online Marketplaces Weeding out discrimination is the bare minimum. Portals can use their positions to promote fair housing which is not only good for PR but good for business

"Portals attempt to have a strong relationship with their customers which doesn't always go well."

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Long time UK property journalist Nigel Lewis tells us about portal-agent relations in the most complex and fraught market in the world.

The Negotiator Editor Nigel Lewis explains the most strained agent-portal relations in the world 00:05 - Nigel's background in the UK property industry01:04 - How does the UK market work with regards to portals?02:20 - The property portal scene in the UK...

"Not only do agents not pay to have their listings on portals... sometimes those portals pay brokerages for listings"

What do agents in the US have to complain about? As the engaging Brian Boero tells us in this week's look at agent-portal relations around the world, the answer is 'quite a lot'.

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Brian Boero explains US agent paranoia around Zillow 00:08 - Brian's industry background01:45 - What makes the US market different?02:52 - How do US portals work for agents?04:12 - Tensions between agents and p...

This month's increasingly popular 'content column' features a couple of great data collaborations from Domain and Zillow and a graph showing the battle for narrative supremacy of the Spanish housing market between idealista.com and fotocasa.es (and how much they are filling up my inbox) https://lnkd.in/enWGx4S

The Best (and Worst) Portal Content From Around The World: May | Online Marketplaces This column started out last September as a response to the constant stream of housing market reports being created by property portals and ending up in my

No big surprise to see Rightmove at the top of our ranking of the most profitable property portals in the world.

Some interesting cases as you go lower down the list though...

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The World's Most Profitable Property Portals | Online Marketplaces Online Marketplaces analyses the likes of Rightmove, Zillow, REA Group, Anjuke, Scout24 and 99acres to see which portal is the most profitable

Our resident expert 🐇 Victoria Haviland has been busy test-driving the best apps in Australia.

Under her microscope, this week are realestate.com.au Domain and Homely.com.au

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The Best Property Portal Apps In Australia | Online Marketplaces This week, we move from looking at the best property portal apps in the US, to the best property portal apps in Australia. Australia’s market is filled with

Dodgy agents, lack of regulation, listings that turn out to be unavailable and a huge opportunity.

We spoke to PropertyScout co-founder and CEO Mario Peng about the Thai property market and what his company is doing to change it in our latest 'Ten Questions' interview. Have a read of it here: https://lnkd.in/eZ3WWBC

10 Questions With: Mario Peng, Co-founder And CEO Of PropertyScout | Online Marketplaces For our latest interview in the 10 Questions series, we spoke to Mario Peng, co-founder and CEO of PropertyScout, one of a new breed of online property

Want to see a short, no-nonsense, real-life case study of a product that can really help your business?

We asked our friends at iovox to tell us about the time they helped Immobiliare.it show its customers the true value of the portal. The succinct 450 words they gave us get straight to the point and won't waste your time with sales-speak:

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A Short Case Study On How Iovox Helped Italy's #1 Portal Show Customers Its True Value | Online Marketplaces We at Online Marketplaces like to think that we know a thing or two about the sort of technology that can really help online classifieds companies thrive. We

"Don't try and get me to do something fundamentally different!"

For our latest interview with investors in the industry, we spoke to our own Chairman Simon Baker about his extensive experience in the sector and what he looks for in the companies he backs.

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Simon Baker tells us why his investments go after the transaction 00:12 - Simon's background in the industry01:20 - Some of Simon's investments in the online marketplaces industry02:29 - What Simon brings as an investor04:0...

Find out why our resident app expert Victoria Haviland chose
Redfin over the likes of Zillow, Homesnap and Trulia in her analysis of the top US real estate apps...

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The Best Property Portal Apps In The U.S. | Online Marketplaces Last time, we started our new Property Portal App Review series by taking a look at the Spanish market and the top five apps that run the show.

Ever wondered how much money the big make from every house sold? Ever wondered which is the most profitable for the portals? Wonder no longer friend... https://tinyurl.com/yd7vd7wv

How Much Money Do Property Portals Make Per Housing Transaction? | Online Marketplaces We analyse transaction volumes and portal revenues to reveal how much the likes of Rightmove, Zillow, REA and Immoscout make per transaction

In the first in a series of interviews with investors in the market, we spoke to FDV's Shaun Di Gregorio about what he looks for in an investment and "the handbook on how to move through the classifieds model" FDV brings to the companies it invests in.

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Shaun Di Gregorio tells us what Frontier Digital Ventures looks for in the companies it invests in 00:10 - Shaun's background and about FDV03:03 - The last 12 months at FDV05:30 - Is a path towards the transaction a pre-requisite for investment?08:06 - Wha...

idealista.com and fotocasa.es have been engaged in a back and forth PR battle over who has the best mobile app. We thought we'd review the top Spanish portal on the market and see for ourselves...

(spoiler alert: those two are both very good)
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The Best Property Portal Mobile Apps In Spain | Online Marketplaces The top Spanish property mobile apps reviewed by simplicity, loading speed, inventory and user experience. Find the app that suits your needs.

Phone leads are the lifeblood of any online marketplace company.

We spoke to Wyem Dardouri of iovox to find out how users can call advertisers with one click and companies can track phone leads without paying for new numbers...

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How Online Classifieds Companies Can Track Calls Without Paying for New Numbers with iovox 00:14 - What iovox does00:41 - Wyem's background in the industry03:00 - iovox's big-name customers in the industry03:31 - iovox's WebConnect product: call th...

Have leading property portals seen a pandemic traffic boost from the "flight to safety" among consumers?

We analysed Google's Trends data to find out: https://lnkd.in/eVVx5VE

No, your eyes do not deceive you. Rightmove's profit and ARPA are in fact (very slightly) separate lines.

2020 was a weird year for most property portals, but probably more so for Rightmove than any other. Our analysis looks at three significant trends in the metrics and asks what the future might hold for the once-mighty British portal...

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"Facebook Marketplace represents one of the most widely publicised and credible threats to traditional classified business models to have emerged in recent years".

If you're not taking Facebook Marketplace seriously as a competitor, perhaps it's time to re-think. Toby Chapman of OC&C Strategy Consultants has written us a guide to your new classifieds competitor: https://buff.ly/3w902d9

Facebook Marketplace: What You Need To Know About Your New Classifieds Competitor | Online Marketplaces Facebook Marketplace may look like a benign sideshow to many in the real estate industry. As a recent CoStar earnings call revealed though, the spectre of the

Bonus interview from our Changing World of Property Data series this week.

We spoke to Cameron Kusher of REA insights to understand what realestate.com.au does with its , what the appetite is like from end-users for all the data and what (as a data professional at a big portal) he thinks about a certain US iBuyer's latest big move.

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Talking Property Portal Data Usage with REA Group We spoke with Cameron Kusher of the market-leading Australian property portal Realestate.com.au to find out what they are doing with housing data and what th...