(Simon Baker – CEO Classified Ad Ventures)

(Javier Etxebeste – Founder of Nestoria – Spain/UK)

Javier is one of the founders of Nestoria and will provide his insights what is happening in the global real estate and property portal markets.

This session looks at the impact that Google, aggregators, vertical search sites, scrapers and free sites may have on the portal market structure and discusses what can be done about them – if anything.

(Simon Baker – CEO of Classified Ad Ventures)

Google is the hottest topic in the property portal industry following their entry into the UK, Australian and US markets.  To date there has been little impact and their intentions are not that clear, however they do have the potential to significantly change the property portal market.

(Simon Baker – CEO of Classified Ad Ventures)

There are a range of vertical search sites emerging.  Do property portals have anything to fear from the likes of Nestoria, Trovit, and Mitula?

The challenge for any portal, especially market leaders, is how to extract more value from their customer base and therefore increase their ARPA (average revenue per advertiser).

This session discusses the various approaches portals can take to extract more value from their customers.

(Jeroen Bekkers – CEO of Floorplanners.com – The Netherlands)

Floorplanner.com has teamed with funda.nl (the Dutch market leader) to provide agents with a new service.  The result is more revenue for floorpanner.com and funda.nl.  Jeroen Bekkers is a founder of floorplanner.com and will overview how the business works and how value is created for both parties.

(Anthony DuPreez – CEO of AdSlot – Australia)

AdSlot has just announced a deal with realestate.com.au to provide display advertising auctioning services to real estate agents, thus helping realestate.com.au to drive more revenue from its customers.

(Anthony Herman – COO of ListGlobally – Australia)

ListGlobally aggregates listings from around the world, distributes them to market leading sites and pays those sites a distribution fee.  Anthony Herman is the Chief Operating Officer of ListGlobally and will provide an insight into opportunities for portals.

(Andy Sheats – GM of Commercial Development, REA Group – Australia)

(Pete Flint – CEO and Founder of Trulia – USA)

realestate.com.au is the leading player in the Australian market with 95% of agents paying to advertise their listings.  Trulia is a leading player in the US market with ~7 million UV’s and the title of the US’ fastest growing major portal.

While on the surface they may appear different, in many ways share the same challenge – having captured all the listings, how do they generate additional revenue streams from their customer base?

This panel discussion will discuss the different approaches (and challenges) to providing premium services to real estate agents.

Not all property portals operate in established markets like the UK, the US, Germany and Australia.  For many, the markets are still emerging and no clear leader has been established.  This session looks at how various players are attacking these emerging markets.

(Shaun Di Gregorio – CEO of IPGA – Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong)

iProperty (IPGA) is the market leader across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia – all emerging countries.  Shaun Di Gregorio, the CEO of iProperty, will discuss the challenges facing the business in building the market leading position in these emerging countries.

(Andrea Piccioni – Founder of Immobiliare – Italy)

Over the last 3 years, Immobiliare has come from nowhere to, on some measures, be the equal leader in the Italian market.  Andrea Piccioni, the founder of Immobiliare, will discuss how they have taken on the much better financed market leader.

(Vineet Kumar Singh – Business Head, 99acres – India)

India is a highly competitive market with over a dozen different property portals.  Of these, 99acres leads the pack.  Vineet Kumar Singh will discuss how they have achieved this leadership position in the emerging Indian market.

(Nisheeth Ranjan – CEO and Founder of Zamanzar – India)

Zamanzar has 250,000 listings across 20 cities and is among the top 10 property portals in India.  Nisheeth Ranjan will discuss how they have approached this highly competitive market, this time from an attacker position.

While getting the strategy right for any property portal is critical, executing that strategy well will make or break the success of the property portal.  This session wraps up the day by looking at some of the more challenging operational issues property portals face.

(Marc Davison – Founder, 1000watt Consulting – USA)

Whether you like it or not, social media is here to stay with 500 million alone using facebook.  In this session, Marc Davison from 1000watt Consulting discusses what role social media plays for property portals and whether it poses a threat.

(Ed Javier – Founder, ContactAtOnce – USA)

A key role that property portals play is the link between the agent and the consumer.  Traditionally this has been through emails and generating telephone leads.  There is now the opportunity to embed online chat into portals to drive greater customer satisfaction.  ContactAtOnce has just signed a deal with Apartment.com to power online chat between renters and agents.  Ed Javier, the founder of ContactAtOnce will discuss how they have approached this opportunity.

(Simon Baker – CEO, Classified Ad Ventures)

This final session of the day is an open discussion looking at the key operating issues facing property portals around the world.  The topics include approaches to sales and marketing, finding and managing people, and building the right technology platform.