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Interview: Founder of new hybrid explains how he outfoxed his bigger competition
Founder of HouseFox.co.uk Neil Urch says his mix of traditional and hybrid models has delivered profitability in just 18 months, unlike other hybrids.
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Revealed: the losers and winners on the high street for Google searches
Research by a leading digital marketing agency has revealed the high street estate agency winners and losers in the battle to corner the market for Google searches. The report is from MediaVision, which works for several big names in the industry including Rightmove, Douglas & Gordon, Bidwells, Lambert Smith Hampton and Kay & Co. “As a digital agency, we often get asked about key metrics to measure the effectiveness of a client’s broader marketing strategy, and we feel that brand demand is the best metric available,” says its CEO Louis Venter (below). “Put simply, brand demand is the volume of people that Google your brand on a monthly basis.” His company’s report shows that Savills remains the most searched property estate agent in the UK at 74,000 searches followed by Knight Frank, Foxtons, Hamptons, haart, Winkworth, KFH, Carter Jonas and Century 21. But some well-known names have also waned significantly in popularity online including John D Wood (21% down on 2018), Strutt & Parker (-21%), Marsh & Parsons (-12%), Currell (-21%), MyLondonHome (-38%), Harrods Estates (-24%), Haus Properties (-24%), Hotblack Desiato (-49%) and Goldschmidt Howland (-24%). Small and medium-size estate agents who don’t appear on the list shouldn’t worry unduly;…
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Letting agent apologises after listing ‘prison cell’ apartment
A letting agent in Brighton has apologised after posting an ad on Rightmove that showed a one-bedroom apartment in the city available for rent with a toilet situated a few metres from its bed. The listings appeared on Rightmove a few days ago and was spotted by an eagle-eyed local house hunter who then posted the picture on social media. “It’s disgusting. I saw a listing for a flat in Brighton that charges £1,000 a month for a toilet in the same room as a bed. I just want this to be known because it’s unacceptable,” the anonymous house hunter told local media. The listing led to a minor ‘Twitter storm’ during which people commented on how its combined bedroom/toilet resembled an ‘upmarket prison cell’. Feeling flush? Local agent Mishon Mackay had uploaded the pictures of the property to Rightmove. It is on Guildford Road in central Brighton near the city’s train station. The agent’s portal listing advertised the property as having a ‘fantastic size bedroom with a double glazed window to [the] front and en-suite wet room area’. “We are aware we made an error on a property listing,” a spokesman from Mishon MacKay told The Evening Argus, adding…
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Guest Blogs
In his own words: why James Pendleton boss is happy to be kicked off OnTheMarket
Lee Pendleton provides the fascinating backdrop to his run-in with OnTheMarket and why he'd be happy to pay for its service if the figures added up.
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24% of landlords planning to reduce their porfolios, claims Rightmove
Portal says tenant fees ban and tax relief reductions are to blame for landlord jitters, which has pushed up rent increases to four-year high.
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Easyproperty parent company hires Rightmove high flier
Dawn Griffin had been a key account manager at Rightmove before joining the outsourced services supplier Evolve Partnership, which in July bought Easyproperty.com
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Rightmove given green light to buy tenant referencing and landlord insurance firm
Purchase of Van Mildert for £20 million has now gone ahead giving Rightmove a major additional foothold in the private rental market together with its tenant passport platform.
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Exclusive: This is why Purplebricks failed in Australia, explains portal executive
A senior figure from the the country's property industry reveals in a video interview why he believes Purplebricks failed so spectacularly in Oz.
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What happened to the Autumn bounce-back? Rightmove blames Brexit
Prices, transactions and instructions all slide across the UK on average as 'heightened economic uncertainty' makes vendors and buyers hesitate... again.
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