Predictions 2009 - Australia
On the surface, the Australian property portal market ended much the same way it started with realestate.com.au dominating the space and domain.com.au continuing to struggle in second place. We also had myhome.com.au come and go in the market while homehound.com.au and realestateview.com.au continue to show promise but with little headway. However, there were changes at the various players that could mean 2009 will be an interesting year.
Predictions 2009 - New Zealand
While 2009 was generally a quiet year in the New Zealand property portal market, there was one notable exception – the exit of the REA Group’s allrealestate.co.nz and the subsequent marketing arrangement between the REA Group and its former competitor, realestate.co.nz. There now two main players in the residential property portal market and 2009 should see some interesting developments with this new market structure.
Competition in New Home Portals
findanewhome.com has overtaken previous UK market leader smartnewhomes.com as the most-visited new homes portal according to Hitwise figures from November.
Top 5 Crazy Names For Property Portals
Around the PPW office we’re always hearing of new portals with crazy names. So we thought we’d put together a list of our favourites.
Free Workshop - January 6, New York
There are still places available to our inaugral workshop. Property Portal Watch, in conjunction with the team at Inman News, are proud to announce the free Strategies for Tough Times workshop to be held on the 6th January in New York - the day before Inman Real Estate Connect conference. The first 50 people to register will receive FREE passes to the Inman Real Estate Connec conference.
Latest News
Australia | UK | US | Other Markets
zillow.com Announces Record Figures 7 Janrightmove.co.uk Launches Ad Campaign 7 Jan
findrealty.com.au Up For Sale 6 Jan
homesaledirectory.com Partners With realtytrac.com 6 Jan
Diverse Solutions for Social Media 5 Jan
Predictions 2009 - New Zealand 4 Jan
Predictions 2009 - Australia 3 Jan
UK Portals Battle for Decreasing Traffic 23 Dec
James Caan Buys 25% of look4aproperty.com 23 Dec
fizber.com Partners With condo.com 22 Dec
TomTom Enters Online Mapping 22 Dec
homegain.com What If You Could Predict the Future 21 Dec
Opinions
Is Google Personalized Search A Threat To Real Estate Websitespropertyportalwatch.com welcomes a guest post from Nicholas Marr on how Google’s new search could...
Predictions 2009 - New ZealandWhile 2009 was generally a quiet year in the New Zealand property portal market, there was one notable...
Predictions 2009 - AustraliaOn the surface, the Australian property portal market ended much the same way it started with realestate.com.au...
Spanish Real Estate Crisis Hits Portalspropertyportalwatch.com welcomes a guest post from Ernesto J. Plaza, summarising his opinion of the impact...
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
imobilien.com.brimobilien.com.br is a map based property search engine that allow users to locate nearly every property...
flatmates.com.auflatmates.com.au is an Australian portal for share accommodation. It lays claim to being the first...
zoomf.comzoomf.com is a UK based property search engine for residential homes to buy or rent. Launched in 2006,...
propertyfinder.compropertyfinder.com is the second of the UK’s “Big 4″ property portals. It was begun in...









