Comments for Property Portal Watch http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com Everything You Need to Know About Property Portals Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on Predictions 2009 - New Zealand by snoop http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/01/predictions-2009-new-zealand/#comment-1112 snoop Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:05:51 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1962#comment-1112 yes but New zealands barely a state of Australia!!. The smart thing REINZ did was see the opportunity in 96 and act. Too big and too many vested interests in Aus to make it work. Bit like in the USA and the hundreds of MLS mgrs all in job justification mode. yes but New zealands barely a state of Australia!!.
The smart thing REINZ did was see the opportunity in 96 and act.
Too big and too many vested interests in Aus to make it work.
Bit like in the USA and the hundreds of MLS mgrs all in job justification mode.

]]> Comment on Predictions 2009 - New Zealand by Mike Green http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/01/predictions-2009-new-zealand/#comment-1111 Mike Green Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:28:26 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1962#comment-1111 Happy New Year Alistair The demise of allrealestate.co.nz was a great result for realestate.co.nz but more importantly for the NZ real estate industry. By working together and backing our own industry portal we have taken a major step towards securing the future of on line marketing in NZ and ensuring it remains in industry hands. When you consider the amount of money our industry currently spends every day in newspapers around the country, the potential savings in the future to every business owner of a controlled on line property portal are staggering - I do hope the potential amount of this is understood by the industry. You are now doubt aware that the LA Times in the US during last year dropped it's real estate section all together - a clear sign of where property marketing is heading and rapidly. It's a real credit to yourself, the industry shareholders and the NZ business owners, just what realestate.co.nz has achieved - something the industry couldn't do in Australia! I believe we should take the opportunity right now to further strengthen our position by introducing a number of Simon's suggestions above - not the subscription increase though! 2009 will be a great year for realestate.co.nz. Happy New Year Alistair

The demise of allrealestate.co.nz was a great result for realestate.co.nz but more importantly for the NZ real estate industry. By working together and backing our own industry portal we have taken a major step towards securing the future of on line marketing in NZ and ensuring it remains in industry hands. When you consider the amount of money our industry currently spends every day in newspapers around the country, the potential savings in the future to every business owner of a controlled on line property portal are staggering - I do hope the potential amount of this is understood by the industry. You are now doubt aware that the LA Times in the US during last year dropped it’s real estate section all together - a clear sign of where property marketing is heading and rapidly.

It’s a real credit to yourself, the industry shareholders and the NZ business owners, just what realestate.co.nz has achieved - something the industry couldn’t do in Australia! I believe we should take the opportunity right now to further strengthen our position by introducing a number of Simon’s suggestions above - not the subscription increase though! 2009 will be a great year for realestate.co.nz.

]]> Comment on Predictions 2009 - New Zealand by Alistair Helm http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/01/predictions-2009-new-zealand/#comment-1110 Alistair Helm Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:32:32 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1962#comment-1110 Simon, A happy new year - and an interesting opening post for NZ. I would love to agree with you on all of the above (of course excepting the fee increase!). The ones I would concur on - * We will increase the range of agent services and premium features * Agents will begrudgingly redirect some spend from papers to online and in this case realestate.co.nz, however more will flow to creditors and their own credit card debt! * We will very definitely increase the range of information on the site - more shortly I can categorically state that we will not be increasing our subscription fees in 2009. I am not sure as to the future of realcommercial! And finally whilst I would love to agree with you that we will overtake Trade me - the fact is we will not. That is not because I am lacking in confidence, it is just a reality that Trade me is not a real estate website - it is a selling and auction community. The traffic to listings of property is heavily influenced by: 1. kiwi psyche - 1.2 million UB's per week out of 4 million people - kiwis all go to Trade me - even if they have nothing to do there. 2. Trade me has private listings - we don't - that drives a lot of property owners, investors and all agents to check out what property might be available 3. Traffic to property on trade me is not reflective of content, a year ago they had 60,000 listings and 225,000 weekly UB's - last week 91,000 listings and 225,000 UB's. Even if agents unsubscribed their traffic would still be the same Whilst we will get closer to scaring Trade me - we are a focused real estate portal and that is our focus now as it has been in the past - that and supporting this industry. Simon,

A happy new year - and an interesting opening post for NZ. I would love to agree with you on all of the above (of course excepting the fee increase!).

The ones I would concur on -

* We will increase the range of agent services and premium features
* Agents will begrudgingly redirect some spend from papers to online and in this case realestate.co.nz, however more will flow to creditors and their own credit card debt!
* We will very definitely increase the range of information on the site - more shortly

I can categorically state that we will not be increasing our subscription fees in 2009.

I am not sure as to the future of realcommercial!

And finally whilst I would love to agree with you that we will overtake Trade me - the fact is we will not. That is not because I am lacking in confidence, it is just a reality that Trade me is not a real estate website - it is a selling and auction community. The traffic to listings of property is heavily influenced by:

1. kiwi psyche - 1.2 million UB’s per week out of 4 million people - kiwis all go to Trade me - even if they have nothing to do there.

2. Trade me has private listings - we don’t - that drives a lot of property owners, investors and all agents to check out what property might be available

3. Traffic to property on trade me is not reflective of content, a year ago they had 60,000 listings and 225,000 weekly UB’s - last week 91,000 listings and 225,000 UB’s. Even if agents unsubscribed their traffic would still be the same

Whilst we will get closer to scaring Trade me - we are a focused real estate portal and that is our focus now as it has been in the past - that and supporting this industry.

]]> Comment on REA Group Directs Traffic to realestate.co.nz by Predictions for the New Zealand Property Portal Market | Property Portal Watch http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2008/11/rea-group-directs-traffic-to-realestateconz/#comment-1108 Predictions for the New Zealand Property Portal Market | Property Portal Watch Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:47:02 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1254#comment-1108 [...] decided to exit the market late in the year. Following this departure, realestate.co.nz entered a marketing agreement with the REA Group that sees traffic be directed from the realestate.com.au site and the allrealestate.co.nz URL to [...] [...] decided to exit the market late in the year. Following this departure, realestate.co.nz entered a marketing agreement with the REA Group that sees traffic be directed from the realestate.com.au site and the allrealestate.co.nz URL to [...]

]]> Comment on Did REA Group Maximize Value on NZ Exit? by Predictions for the New Zealand Property Portal Market | Property Portal Watch http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2008/11/did-rea-group-maximize-value-on-nz-exit/#comment-1107 Predictions for the New Zealand Property Portal Market | Property Portal Watch Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:39:42 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1437#comment-1107 [...] allrealestate.co.nz however it was gifted a near monopoly position by the REA Group when they decided to exit the market late in the year. Following this departure, realestate.co.nz entered a marketing agreement with the REA Group that [...] [...] allrealestate.co.nz however it was gifted a near monopoly position by the REA Group when they decided to exit the market late in the year. Following this departure, realestate.co.nz entered a marketing agreement with the REA Group that [...]

]]> Comment on Predictions 2009 - Australia by Patrick http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/01/predictions-2009-australia/#comment-1106 Patrick Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:34:54 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1952#comment-1106 great piece. i like the last point about News making another run for all of REA ...and also see that as likely.... thoughts / predictions for the global / international property markets? that would be a great piece. great piece.
i like the last point about News making another run for all of REA …and also see that as likely….

thoughts / predictions for the global / international property markets? that would be a great piece.

]]> Comment on domain.com.au Deal With ninemsn.com.au by Predictions for the Australian property portal market | Property Portal Watch http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2008/11/domaincomau-deal-with-ninemsncomau/#comment-1104 Predictions for the Australian property portal market | Property Portal Watch Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:37:58 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1287#comment-1104 [...] Greg Ellis, the new REA Group CEO, was reported in News Limited’s The Australian as expecting the REA Group decided not to renew its agreement with ninemsn which allowed domain.com.au to pick up this high profile advertising opportunity. This will have a [...] [...] Greg Ellis, the new REA Group CEO, was reported in News Limited’s The Australian as expecting the REA Group decided not to renew its agreement with ninemsn which allowed domain.com.au to pick up this high profile advertising opportunity. This will have a [...]

]]> Comment on trulia.com Founders on Top 10 Newsmakers List by Stefan Swanepoel http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2008/12/truliacom-founders-on-top-10-newsmakers-list/#comment-1100 Stefan Swanepoel Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:05 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1900#comment-1100 Thanks for reposting part of my Top 10 Newsmakers for 2008 list and congrats to Sami and Pete for making it to the list> Best wishes to everyone at Trulia for a great 2009. Stefan Swanepoel Author: Swanepoel Trends Report www.retrends.com Thanks for reposting part of my Top 10 Newsmakers for 2008 list and congrats to Sami and Pete for making it to the list>

Best wishes to everyone at Trulia for a great 2009.

Stefan Swanepoel
Author: Swanepoel Trends Report
http://www.retrends.com

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This is Iverson Gandy, Owner of Gandy Labs. Thank you for your article about our site, maybeweneed.com. We’re always looking for new ways to provide unique services to users. Thanks again!

]]> Comment on zoomf.com by Andy Rehan http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2008/12/zoomfcom/#comment-1097 Andy Rehan Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:54:25 +0000 http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/?p=1909#comment-1097 As competition has increased in all the markets and if you want to be in high speed than your competitors. Then I would prefer media advertising as perfect place for you where you can target the people who are relevant to your market and there are many chances of getting more busness from the area you would like to target. As competition has increased in all the markets and if you want to be in high speed than your competitors. Then I would prefer media advertising as perfect place for you where you can target the people who are relevant to your market and there are many chances of getting more busness from the area you would like
to target.

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