jaap.nl Redesigns, funda.nl Dominates
January 18, 2010 by Alice Allan · 1 Comment
Number two Dutch portal jaap.nl is adding to the long list of improvements it has made over the past few months with the release of a new design.
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Dutch Portals Team Up
January 8, 2010 by Alice Allan · 2 Comments
Number two Dutch property portal jaap.nl has teamed up with the Netherlands’ number three player in a listing distribution partnership.
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MetrixLab’s Best Portals Announced
January 4, 2010 by Alice Allan · 2 Comments
Property portals from across the world have been honoured in MetrixLab’s Website of the Year awards, which name the most popular websites based on public votes and the best websites based on an evaluation of content, navigation, and design.
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funda.nl Named Best Website
December 2, 2009 by Alice Allan · Leave a Comment
Leading Dutch property portal funda.nl has taken out both the people’s choice award and the most popular website award in the housing category of the Best Website of the Year awards, held recently in Amsterdam.
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How Do You Measure Leads?
October 21, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · 2 Comments
A recent article by Simon Baker looked at the contentious issue of leads, and argued that what portals should be talking about is the number of leads they generate for the advertiser, rather than web traffic. So how can portals do this?
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Augmented Reality Is Here
October 21, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · 5 Comments
Back in August, Coldwell Banker Real Estate launched what it says was the first-ever international home search application for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Since then it’s been “game on” with portals and agencies vying to get their iPhone and Android apps to the public.
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New Auctions Feature at funda.nl
October 9, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment
The leading property portal in The Netherlands, funda.nl, has introduced auction information to its site which allows agents to promote houses that are to be auctioned.
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Top 25 Revenue Generating Portals
September 28, 2009 by Simon Baker · 9 Comments
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The true test of a leading portal site is not how many unique visitors or visits its receives but its ability to convert that traffic into revenue and eventually profit. The team at Classified Ad Ventures (owner of Property Portal Watch) has scoured the world and put together a list of the top 25 revenue generating property portal sites.
The top five sites are all market leaders, all generating over US$100m per year, and all profitable. The highest revenue generating site is immoscout24.de in Germany followed closely by realtor.com in the US. Rounding out the top 5 is soufun.com.cn in China, realestate.com.au in Australia and rightmove.co.uk in the UK.
The Future: iPhone Apps, Mobile Sites and Android
September 18, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · 4 Comments
As we’ve reported before, major property portals across the globe are involved in an iPhone app war. Take US based zillow.com for instance and its record breaking iPhone app. But there’s also the issue of the more general mobile websites, and the Android market, which portals are starting to get involved in.
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funda.nl to Create Augmented Reality
June 18, 2009 by Alice Allan · 1 Comment
funda.nl, the leading property portal in the Netherlands, will reportedly be partnering with Dutch mobile phone company SPRXmobile to be part of their new “augmented reality” mobile application.
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