Traffic to UK Property Portal Sites (Sep 2008)
November 5, 2008 by Simon Baker · 2 Comments
The ComScore numbers are out for September 2008. propertyfinder.com and zoopla.co.uk were the big winners with propertyfinder.com moving back into second place with findaproperty.com slipping to third place and zoopla.co.uk increasing traffic by 32% month on month.
The big losers were primelocation.com that slipped futher behind big broter findaproperty.com and propertyfinder.com, thinkproperty.com that slipped 20% and the much hyped globrix.com that also slipped 21% and is now the 17th most visited property portal site in the UK.
| Sep-08 | Aug-08 | Change | |
| Real Estate | 7,719 | 7,572 | 1.9% |
| RIGHTMOVE.CO.UK | 2,431 | 2,400 | 1.3% |
| PROPERTYFINDER.COM | 1,308 | 1,123 | 16.5% |
| FINDAPROPERTY.COM | 1,201 | 1,304 | -7.9% |
| PRIMELOCATION.COM | 824 | 929 | -11.3% |
| NESTORIA.CO.UK | 473 | 508 | -6.9% |
| UKPROPERTYSHOP.CO.UK | 371 | 377 | -1.6% |
| HOMESANDPROPERTY.CO.UK | 348 | 321 | 8.5% |
| ZOOPLA.CO.UK | 345 | 261 | 32.2% |
| HOMESONVIEW.CO.UK | 337 | 300 | 12.2% |
| THINKPROPERTY.COM | 330 | 414 | -20.2% |
| HOTPROPERTY.CO.UK | 279 | 296 | -5.7% |
| OURPROPERTY.CO.UK | 261 | 232 | 12.7% |
| FISH4HOMES.CO.UK | 210 | 214 | -1.9% |
| GLOBRIX.COM | 200 | 253 | -21.0% |
Source: ComScore MediaMetrix September 2008
Vebra Blocks globrix.com
November 4, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · 12 Comments
Last week Vebra blocked the globrix.com crawler from picking up properties from Vebra hosted agents.
globrix.com say in a blog update that the crawler has been operating for over a year, and yet Vebra are “insisting that a charge is levied for a feed on the grounds that crawling disrupts their service (the reality being that the Globrix crawler mimics one single user slowly clicking through all Vebras agents which is very little traffic)”.
globrix.com say the costs currently under discussion are “prohibitively expensive” and “somewhat unfair” as globrix.com are providing what they consider to be a value added service in the form of free traffic for Vebra.
Vebra includes the software and marketing company vebra.info as well as the portal vebra.com and is owned by GMG Property Services, a division within Guardian Media Group. GMG also own thinkproperty.com and coresystems.co.uk. Last week we reported that thinkproperty.com was rumoured to be changing to a free-to-list model.
As the situation stands “all agents who host their properties with Vebra will not be receiving free traffic from globrix.com”, while globrix.com and Vebra continue their negotiations.
thinkproperty.com
October 27, 2008 by Jo · Leave a Comment
Thinkproperty.com is an independent website advertising UK and overseas properties for sale and rent from thousands of UK’s estate agencies. The site is owned by GMG Property Services who also own Vebra, the UK’s leading provider of software to independent estate agents. The emphasis for both the site look and feel and marketing is on simplicity and clarity.
thinkproperty.com Rumored to be Going Free
October 27, 2008 by Emma Sorensen · 3 Comments
thinkproperty.com might be leading the change from paid to free-to-list
Last week we reported that UK consumer property portal thinkproperty.com had added real time news to its functionality.
Hot on the heels of this announcement, is the news that thinkproperty.com is about to become free-to-list.
If reports are correct, then the change couldn’t be more timely as agents protest high listing fees and free-to-list portals and search sites gain in number and popularity.
Estate Agent Today broke the news on Friday, reporting that it is the first time a property portal has changed from pay-to-list, to become free.
thinkproperty.com is wholly owned by GMG Property Services, a division within Guardian Media Group. GMG also own vebra.com and coresystems.co.uk.
Estate Agent Today reported that thinkproperty.com wants to increase its focus on serving the estate agency sector:
“The Thinkproperty brand will also swallow up the existing vebra.com, homesonview.co.uk and live-lets.co.uk sites, and will allow all estate agents in the UK to advertise properties on the site free of charge with immediate effect.”
Curiously, neither the thinkproperty.com website nor the GMG Property Services website currently contains any mention that we could find of this rather big news. The thinkproperty.com FAQ page still advises agents: “To discuss pricing, please contact a thinkproperty.com sales representative via our Support team”.
Real Time News for thinkproperty.com
October 23, 2008 by Jo · Leave a Comment
One of the UK’s consumer property portals, thinkproperty.com, has added real time news to its website. thinkproperty.com, wholly owned by GMG Property Services, a division within Guardian Media Group, places Web 2.0 methodology at the heart of its functionality, with Google mapping, property ranking, RSS and Video Tours being core features.
In a good move to keep up with the largest UK portals and give consumers a more informed experience, the new content offers the latest information on buying, selling, letting and renting property. There’s also updates on finance, estate agents and property prices. Positioned neatly at the top left of the site, the news is updated in real time via a bespoke news content feed on the site.
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