OnTheMarket Launches "UK-First" Property Search Features

October 7, 2022
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OnTheMarket continues to flex its technological muscles with the launch of a suite of features that the portal claims is the first of its kind for the UK's major portals.

"Accessible features" is a search filter for all of OnTheMarket's listings, with specific search functions for properties with wheelchair accessibility, wider doorways, wet rooms, ramps and lifts.

OnTheMarket says the addition of the new features completes phase one of the portal's accessibility strategy, with more features due in the coming months.

The agent-owned challenger portal has made great technological strides recently with the launch of OnTheMarket Software and a suite of agent and buyer features in September.

Jason Tebb, CEO at OnTheMarket, said:

"I’m incredibly proud of the latest additions we’ve brought to our site. In particular, we’re really pleased to be leading developments in the way consumers with access needs search for property. Our goal to listen, innovate and deliver applies not only to our agent customers but to our consumers too, so making property searches as easy and inclusive as possible is really important to us.

I’d also like to thank Guy [Harris, Founder of AccessiblePRS, a property consultancy which specialises in accessibility in the rental sector] for his invaluable input during the development process of our Accessible features filter and this first phase of our accessibility strategy."

Online Marketplaces interviewed Jason Tebb recently. Watch it in full below:

 

 

October 7, 2022
Harvey is an experienced property journalist and copywriter. He has written about the property industry since 2015, starting at The Property Franchise Group in the UK, before moving to Spain to work for Spotahome. He has blogged for the private rented sector, ghostwritten for UK property experts and written case studies for franchise owners around the UK. Harvey joined Online Marketplaces as a News Editor in 2022.

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