@PaulD we’re not going to beat the hell out of anyone. We work together with partners not against them.

@Glenn great summary of our model. You get it.

@Greg I agree with you, we don’t provide all the answers. That’s not our goal – we focus religiously on doing one thing and one thing only: a simple and effective search.

In Australia we just launched so still have a lot to learn. We welcome all feedback – positive or negative. Thanks everyone.

Previously, the state institutes have been all trying do something on a state by state basis. Both REIWA & RealEstateView have made some inroads but the rest of the states have had very little success.

If all the states can get their acts together & go about it the right way, they may just get the support from the agents. (who knows?)

I can’t see anything else on the horizon that looks like offering a solution to changing the duopoly within our industry. (I don’t believe that Google or Nestoria provide the answer).

Nestoria’s model has worked in other locations so it should work here in Australia too. Whats most interesting about Nestoria is that they offer tools for webmasters including widgets, search boxes and an api. The UK version has other widgets such as houses prices and average property values that are not ready here in Australia yet.

Overall, I see this as a great tool and very useful on an agent website as vendors and purchasers would be able to gain greater knowledge from the experience.

When they launched the Widgets I thought it was a good initiative & that’s why I wrote about it. I’m sorry that I forgot to mention that it’s not Free.

In reality, it’s a shame it’s not Free. It could get them some huge exposure across a lot of agents websites if it was.

Maybe, they could set up a Free plugin and then offer an upgrade price for those agents who subscribe to their Property Data service and want to have access to the leads.

BTW RP Data have recently made an announcement out to the franchise groups about some improvements that they have made to their platform. (To be launched in April). It looks to be more streamlined & easier for agents to use.

I believe that these improvements could be as a result of PriceFinder taking a large percentage of business from them in Qld & WA. Vic seems to be well covered with their property data by the REIV and RealEstateView.com.au and with RealEstateView’s imminent roll out into the other states & territories it looks like we are going to see some significant changes taking place within the Property Data sector.

And if your website doesnt have a white background, dont bother. Fiddling with the background colour with Firebug produces some horrific results.