Rent.com.au is consolidating its position as Australia’s #1 rental property website, indicating in a December press release they have achieved 300% growth in the number of agency listings on their website since February 2011. They also indicate their portal has over 40,000 residential and holiday rentals now being listed by agencies across the country. In [...]
Fairfax Media yesterday announced they have entered into an agreement to merge Fairfax Community Newspapers in Victoria with Metro Media Publishing (owner of the The Weekly Review). Under the agreement Fairfax will contribute assets along with 35 million, in return obtaining 50% interest and voting rights in MMP. The Weekly Review is a free weekly [...]
Since the death of one Steve Jobs and release of the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson rumors have been spreading like wildfire about a new television to be released by Apple sometime in 2012. In this book, Isaacson quotes Steve Jobs: ‘I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to [...]
For the first time in Australia, onthehouse.com.au has just released their automated valuation estimate solution on almost every property within Australia called ‘Guesstimates’. ‘Guesstimates’ are calculated using the Residex valuation technology, and are provided to consumers for free, along with other detailed and analytic information about properties in Australia. CEO and Managing Director, Michael Fredericks [...]
During the week a friend emailed me through a link to a share accommodation advertisement on Gumtree. The advertisement was written by a tenant looking for a flatmate, and provides a truthful yet comical overview of the property, its features and even the flaws. From the advert: North Bondi – crap place. Great location and [...]
In news this week, on Tuesday Go Gecko Pty Ltd went into Voluntary Administration leading to the closure of 2 Go Gecko stores with 6 more facing a review by the Administrator. As reported by the Courier, Geoff Doyle CEO and founder resigned ahead of the Administrators being appointed. The article also hints that the [...]
Not to be confused with another property portal website – this is actually a real estate industry news website and I must admit it is very impressive. Property Observer is headed up by well known property journalist Jonathan Chancellor who was previously at The Sydney Morning Herald for the last 25 years in the capacity [...]
Microsoft has purchased Skype for an incredible 8.5 billion (thats around $36 Australian Dollars) in a deal most believe is to alleviate the threat from Google’s limited but excellent Google Voice software. The company was last purchased for 2.7 billion, so this is not a bad return on the investment, although Skype still continues to [...]
No one can deny the success of Facebook and Twitter – the astronomical user base of these Internet giants speak for themselves. However one thing they both lack is creativity in their business models. Facebook currently has over 500,000,000 users, yes that’s 500 million! An almost unbelievable statistic, coupled with the fact that most users [...]
It’s been an action packed two weeks which started with REA’s sale of Realholidays and has built up since then. There is certainly some major restructuring taking place in Australia’s online real estate space: As a follow up to BuyMyPlace.com.au being kicked off REA other agent assisted and private selling sites including Forsaleforlease, Myhomeisforsale and [...]
HomeAway the world leader in holiday rentals today announced the purchase of realholidays.com.au the Australian holiday arm of REA. From their press release: The acquisition of realholidays.com.au, which features 21,000 listings(1) not only broadens HomeAway’s reach into the Australian market, but also marks its expansion from North America, South America and Europe into Asia-Pacific. “Australia [...]
Last week Fairfax Media owner of Australia’s number 2 real estate portal Domain.com.au and number 1 holiday rentals website Stayz.com.au purchased Occupancy Pty Ltd for $29 million. Occupancy Pty Ltd operates rentahome.com.au and takeabreak.com.au who make money mainly through the booking fees paid by holidaymakers when they book accommodation online. Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood said [...]
Realestateguide is an Australian real estate portal who’s been operating under the radar for some time now. They appear to have found success in their SEO strategy and have in place a formula delivering a high number of property seeker leads to agents. To take this strategy to the next level and launch it nationally to all [...]
I went to the year 2023 to check out the Real Estate Industry. The web landscape is vastly different since Facebook was completely taken over by “BrainWave”, the portal of choice by over 7 billion minds. Some say it was the” Pineal Search System” that defined its success. The “Accessible Imaginator” on the 2016 released [...]
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