Interview with Ken Shuman – trulia.com

US property search engine trulia.com marked four years of operation in 2009, and spent the year releasing steady upgrades to everything from its agent profiles to its listing imagery. The search engine, currently number seven on the Hitwise list of US real estate websites, reported bumper traffic figures as the year came to a close.

trulia.com’s head of communications, Ken Shuman, spoke to propertyportalwatch.com about the website’s recent releases, its planned expansion into rental listings, and those Google acquisition rumours.
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Interview with Tammy Kotula – apartments.com

As its names suggests, apartments.com is a US-based property portal focusing specifically on apartments. After a substantial promotional push in 2009, apartments.com has recently moved into the top 10 US real estate websites list.
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Interview with Kelly Roark – frontdoor.com

frontdoor.com is a US based property listings and information website. It is owned by the Scripps Networks digital media group, which means it is also affiliated with the popular real estate and home cable TV network and website, HGTV.

Here, vice president of interactive sales and development Kelly Roark talks to propertyportalwatch.com about recent developments at frontdoor.com as well as the website’s business model, its use of social media, and its future plans:
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Interview with Anton Kreil – hablib.com

hablib.com, or “Habitation Libertum”, is a free residential property platform that was launched
in August. The For Sale By Owner website is the work of Anton Kreil from the BBC2 series Million Dollar Traders. Here, Anton discusses the creation, business model and future of hablib.com with propertyportalwatch.com:
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Interview with Douglas Pope – hotpads.com

Map based search engine hotpads.com has won its fair share of awards for online innovation over the past year. The website was launched in November 2005 by three college roommates from the University of Notre Dame.

Initially it covered rentals only, but in November 2007 added for sale listings and included vacation listings earlier this year. hotpads.com has grown to include around 3 million homes for sale and more than 350,000 rental listings.

propertyportalwatch.com spoke to co-founder Douglas Pope about the history and future of the website.
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Podcast Interview with Alex Chesterman – CEO of Zoopla

I recently had the chance to sit down with Alex Chesterman in London to have a chat about his business.  Recently Zoopla has hit the headlines with its announcement that it is acquiring Propertyfinder.com in the UK from the REA Group.  Alex talks about his business model and how he sees things panning out in the UK market.

Here is the podcast of that interview.

Interview with Sarah Beeny – tepilo.com

Earlier this month we reported on the arrival of a new UK website that aims to transform the way people buy and sell property. tepilo.com is the brainchild of TV presenter Sarah Beeny and has just gone live in “phase 1″. propertyportalwatch.com spoke to Sarah about her new website, which is “a platform that allows you to take independent control of buying and selling your home.”
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Podcast Interview with Patrick Grove

Welcome to the first in our new series of podcasts. During a recent trip to Kuala Lumpur, I had the chance to talk with Patrick Grove, the Executive Chairman of iProperty about iProperty and its operations throughout South East Asia.

Interview with Peter Wright – realestate.com.au

Peter Wright is currently General Manager-Residential, for the REA Group owned market leading Australian property portal, realestate.com.au. As of July he’ll be General Manager of Sales and Operations.

propertyportalwatch.com spoke to Peter about his new role and where he sees the Australian portal market heading.
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Interview with Luke Kelly – parklet.co.uk

Young UK entrepreneur, Luke Kelly, is the managing director and founder of parklet.co.uk. Park Let is not your standard property portal – it’s the UK’s largest parking space letting agent.

Park Let have just launched a new tool on their website which allows property owners to determine how much they could earn from letting out idle/available parking spaces.

propertyportalwatch.com spoke to Luke Kelly about his innovative garage portal and lettings business, and what the future holds for Park Let.
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