Pascoe & Leggo

Oz agent reveals eye-watering cost of listing properties on Rightmove equivalent

An Australian estate agent on a fact-finding mission to the UK has revealed the eye-watering cost of listing on property portals in Oz and marvelled at how ‘cheap’ Rightmove and Zoopla are in the UK. The comments by Charlotte Pascoe, who is a high-profile Melbourne agent with a 15-year track record within the Oz industry, will shock agents in the UK who complain about the monthly cost of using UK property portals. Pascoe works as General Manager at Pascoe & Leggo, a 45-branch franchised network covering most of Australia’s key property markets. She says branches in Oz pay between AU$30,000 (£15,800) and AU$35,000 (£18,500) a MONTH to list on the Rightmove equivalent Real Estate Australia (REA). “If you want to do in-portal advertising on top of that it can be an extra AU$1,000 to AU$5,000 a month,” says Pascoe. This compares dramatically with Rightmove’s average monthly fee of £978, although this can reach £1,500-£1,700 depending on the extras agents choose to pay for. During the interview with Chris Watkins, she describes REA as a ‘cash machine’ that would make even Rightmove blush, and that Oz’s answer to Zoopla, Domain, charges around AU$4,000 a month for agents to list on its…

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