Sweden is not a market we tend to hear a lot about in the real estate marketing industry. It has an entrenched market-leading portal and a well-regulated property market, hardly...
This week I’ve received no fewer than three press releases whose narrative beyond their details is one of property portals and their political influence. The first one came from Malaysia...
Our recent Portal Standards 2021 report looked at the prevalence of what we thought were six common user-friendly features on 650 property portal sites from around the world. What we...
When you think of a website on which you might look for your next home, you probably have something specific in mind. That image may be vastly different depending on...
As industry commentator Mike DelPrete neatly summed up in his recent Emerging Models in Real Estate Report, "the [real estate] industry is moving very slowly, but it's never moved this fast"....
Beating a market leader in the 'winner takes most' world of portals is tough. Those network effects that those silicon valley VCs love to talk about are at their strongest...
Today we at Online Marketplaces received a press release from Australian portal operating company REA Group celebrating the fact that the Newscorp owned company had been ranked 4th in the...
“How much is my home worth?” - the golden question that property portals around the world are increasingly keen to answer for homeowners. Ever since Zillow changed the game with...
It seems that no self-respecting modern-day property portal company in a mature market would be without some sort of index, report or other use of data to draw in users...
We interviewed Homehere.co Founder Lou Quinn for our 10 Questions With... feature back in January. We liked what his company was doing around shining a light on portal ROI in...
Michael Bruce made headlines in the British estate agency press this month for personally responding to reviews of his new portal startup Boomin on the Trustpilot consumer review platform. The...
The coronavirus pandemic has changed so much in the housing market around the world. Plenty of column inches have been dedicated to the sea change in the world of office...
