Rightmove Revenue Down in 2009

Rightmove plc’s revenue for the 12 months to 31 December 2009 fell by 6 percent from £74 million to £69.4 million as a result of estate agency branch closures in 2008.
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rightmove.co.uk Best Optimised Portal

globaledge.co.uk’s list of the top 20 best optimised overseas property portals has just been released, with rightmove.co.uk taking out first place.
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rightmove.co.uk Confident for 2010

Leading UK portal rightmove.co.uk says it is expecting profits to rise in 2010, and says its financial results for 2009 will be in line with current market expectations.
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TDPG Challenges zoopla.co.uk

It was only a matter of time until The Digital Property Group (TDPG) challenged zoopla.co.uk’s claim to the title of second most popular property portal in the UK.
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rightmove.co.uk Adds Google Maps

rightmove.co.uk users are now able to view properties on a Google Map by clicking a link on each property’s detailed view page.
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New TV Push from rightmove.co.uk

Leading UK portal rightmove.co.uk has started airing its new TV advertisement, aiming to gather more sellers for its “stock-starved” agents.
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Google Real Estate in Europe – What is All the Fuss About? Lessons from Australia

The news yesterday that Google was “entering” the UK/European market sent the share prices of Rightmove and Seloger into a tailspin. The Seloger share price closed down 5.7% at €23.50 while the Rightmove share price was hammered a whopping 10.3% to 499.9p.

So let’s look at what happened. An article by the Financial Times (Dec 2 titled “Google set to enter UK property market”) seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons. The article stated that Google is in talks with British estate agents and that “experts” say that an entry by them to the market could pose a serious threat to existing property websites. The article didn’t talk about what Google was going to do and Google didn’t comment. So there is really not much to go on. So the only guide we really have as to what Google may do in the UK and Europe is what they have done in Australia.
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Google Rumours Dent Rightmove Share Price

A Financial Times report on Google’s plans for online property search in the UK seems to have worried the market.
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zoopla.co.uk Challenges DPG Growth

zoopla.co.uk is reporting comScore data, collected before the UK portal’s integration with propertyfinder.com, hotproperty.co.uk and thinkproperty.com, that puts its unique visitor numbers up nearly 13.87 percent in October compared to September.
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New Rightmoveplus Ranks Agents

Top UK property portal rightmove.co.uk has just launched an enhanced version of Rightmoveplus, its management and reporting suite for member agents.
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