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Interview with Lee Bramzell - propertyindex.com

November 25, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment 


From creating currys.co.uk for Dixons, to launching P&O into the consumer events market, starting Thomson Holiday’s website, and running “Chemistry” dating evenings, Lee Bramzell has worked with some diverse clients.

Since 2006 he’s been Managing Director of propertyindex.com, originally an overseas portal, which is taking on the UK domestic market with its innovative ‘pay for results’ model.

propertyportalwatch.com spoke to Lee about portals and the UK market.

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Interview with Henry Pryor – eabg.co.uk

November 19, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · Comments Off 

Henry Pryor (image copyright: Jim Varney)

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.

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Interview with Justin Carson - tokyoapartment

November 6, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment 


tokyoapartment.com is a boutique portal operating in Japan, catering mainly to the overseas buyer. Expat Australian, Justin Carson, is one of its owners and has lived in Japan for over 15 years.

propertyportalwatch.com spoke to Justin about tokyoapartment.com, the Japanese portal market, and his future plans to take on the big guys.

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Interview with Graeme Sutton - yourproperty

November 5, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment 


Last week husband and wife team Graeme and Linda Sutton launched a new Australian property portal, yourproperty.com.au. Its point of difference to the many existing portals is that it only lists properties from independent real estate agents.

“It’s all about the independent real estate agent at yourproperty.com.au”, says Graeme enthusiastically.

“The independent real estate agents in Australia need a web portal made just for them to claim their independence and be part of the real estate revolution”, he explains.

PropertyPortalWatch.com spoke to Graeme about the launch, and what he hopes his niche agent-focussed website will achieve.

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Interview with Ed Freyfogle - nestoria.co.uk

October 30, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · 6 Comments 


nestoria.co.uk is a UK based vertical search engine for property. nestoria.co.uk is owned by Lokku Limited, a privately funded group of entrepreneurs with strong backgrounds in European Internet search. At the helm is co-founder, Ed Freyfogle.

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Interview with homethinking’s Niki Scevak

October 24, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment 

homethinking.com is a US based website that helps house buyers and sellers make better decisions in selecting an agent by showing them transactional histories of real estate agents and mortgage lenders.

homethinking.com has just launched a new Neighbourhoods application designed to provide users with information on the neighbourhood they are moving into. By crunching demographic data from the US Census and other public sources, the site produces scores based on comparing age of inhabitants, number of children, frequency of arts events, and more.

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