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Last week, we reported that leading Australian portal realestate.com.au had suspended Vertex Consulting, an affiliate of For Sale By Owner website buymyplace.com.au. It has now come to light that realestate.com.au plans to end the subscriptions of two similar businesses. realestate.com.au has confirmed that both propertynow.com.au and forsaleforlease.com.au will not have their subscriptions renewed due to alleged breaches of the portal's terms and conditions. realestate.com.au's full statement regarding the decision is below: The family home is a major investment and the vast majority of Australians prefer to sell through a licensed real estate agent and benefit from their experience and negotiating
Move Inc, parent company of US property portal realtor.com, has struck a deal to power the advertising of hyper-local real estate website blockshopper.com. blockshopper.com describes itself as "one part community newspaper, one part ultimate hyper-local real estate research tool." The website operates in 20 markets, allowing users to find information such as home sale prices, owner records and foreclosures broken down by city, zip, neighbourhood, subdivision, condo development and block. The deal makes Move the exclusive national sales force for all real estate advertisers on blockshopper.com and the company will also syndicate its ad products on blockshopper.com for agents
Leading UK property portal rightmove.co.uk has rolled out the first in a set of improvements to its new homes section with the launch of dedicated pages for developments. These new pages allow developers to promote the features of their properties as well as the individual units within each. They include information on the local area, a plan of the site, and contact details for the developer. "With over 10 million unique home hunter visits to rightmove.co.uk in January alone, property developers are becoming increasingly conscious of the need to make sure their brand and properties stand out on our
Australian property portal realestateguide.com.au is currently on the hunt for a buyer or investor. Owner and managing director Craig Honeyman tells propertyportalwatch.com that the time is right for the full or partial sale of his business, after more than 10 years of development and testing. "The business was started back 1999 with traffic from search engines as the main focus," Honeyman explains. "We've been testing as we went along and now have a system that's ready to go." realestateguide.com.au states that it has seen over 1 million unique visitors between 2008 and 2010, during which time the portal listed
South African property portal property24.com is now syndicating its listings to mweb.co.za, one of the country's top Internet Service Providers. A new channel has been created at mweb.co.za/property, which will list over 150,000 residential and commercial property listings from property24.com. According to property24.com, this new syndication agreement will expose its listings to the 880,000-strong MWEB portal community automatically and at no additional cost. “It was an obvious choice picking the market-leader property24.com as our content partner for our new property channel,” said Derek Hershaw, CEO of MWEB ISP. “The extent of their property listings ensures we will continue to
Leading Chinese search engine baidu.com is leading a US$50 million series C investment round in the anjuke.com real estate marketplace. anjuke.com is a Chinese marketplace for secondhand properties that was founded in 2007. According to a statement from the company, it sees an average of 10 million unique visitors per month. In 2010, anjuke.com launched sister websites haozu.com for rental properties and aifang.com for new property sales. The company currently has 813 employees in 20 offices, and offers its service in 20 cities. anjuke.com says it plans to use the funds for geographic expansion along with research and development.
yougotlistings.com, a Y Combinator-backed real estate startup based in Boston, has kicked off a round of new releases with the launch of its Android app. yougotlistings.com operates on a similar model to rentjuice.com, which recently raised US$6.2 million and bought out one of its competitors. Through yougotlistings.com, landlords can send their listings to the brokers they select in real time, while brokers can use the website to syndicate listings, communicate with landlords, request credit reports, track listing performance and more. At the moment, yougotlistings.com operates in Boston and Chicago, with Florida and San Francisco next on the agenda. "Right now
Swiss real estate portal homegate.ch is taking the next step in mobile property search with the release of customised iPhone apps for its members. The portal, which has had an iPhone app on offer since mid-2009, says this new offering will allow its corporate clients to create an app with their own logo, colour scheme and design that will display all their listings. homegate.ch says the price of these apps will be "attractive" to agencies and include all development costs and ongoing support. homegate.ch currently claims market leadership in Switzerland with an average of 1 million unique visitors per
UK-based classifieds website gumtree.com has introduced fees for both private landlords and agents looking to list rental properties. For sale listings are still free for private sellers, however agents are being asked to sign up to zoopla.co.uk before they can list. Agents and landlords with rental properties can list two for free, but are charged £9.95 for each subsequent listing. Monthly subscriptions are also being offered at £49 per month for unlimited listings. As well as charging for rental listings, the eBay-owned website is also selling promoted listings at the cost of £2 per day outside London and £7.14
UK news websites are currently buzzing with reports that leading UK property portal rightmove.co.uk will soon add Internet speeds to the information it includes in its listings. telegraph.co.uk reports that rightmove.co.uk will be adding this information to its listings through a partnership with UK Internet company BT. Neither company has made an official statement about the move, but the news website quotes a source stating that broadband speeds are becoming particularly important to home buyers. "Many people fall in love with a home only to find out it can only get really slow Internet," the source is quoted as saying. "By
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