Could you cancel your realestate.com.au and domain.com.au subscriptions in 2012? You would be forgiven for thinking real estate is all online these days it dominates the landscape that much and online the search engines are the first port of call for property related traffic. Just after leaving Simon Baker confirmed that even realestate.com.au received massive [...]
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Is Domain threatening Competition within the real estate industry?
Changes to you Domain advertising rates: On December 15th. 2012 a Domain National Sales Manager wrote to PropertyNow (and presumably to some other companies) The email communication sent to PropertyNow is shown below. The essential elements of Domain’s email to PropertyNow, is that Domain intend a price increase (after approximately 6 years at the current rate) [...]
Domain’s real estate directory
Early last month Domain launched their real estate directory by adding an additional ”Directory” tab to their main navigation. The directory allows site users to browse for a variety of real estate industry service providers, viewing their profiles and contacting those they’re interested in. The directory is powered by another Fairfax owned company, OMG a [...]
iPad App Review – Domain Real Estate App
Domain last week released it’s first entry into the realm of iPad apps and it appears to be an awesome app at that! The app is of course available free and bears no resemblance to the boring, slightly useful but very slow iPhone apps released previously by Domain and REA. This app makes searching for [...]
Project Rebellion: RPData in the Firing Line
As a followup to recent articles relating to the industry revolt and ACCC investigation into RealEstate.com.au, Australian Financial Review journalist Ben Hurley has released another article that takes aim at RPData and their valuation strategy. RPData have been working on a valuation system similar to US portal Zillow in the USA where they provide a valuation [...]
Project Rebellion: REA’s Problems Continue with ACCC Investigation Underway
In a followup article to the Front Page Project Rebellion article, Ben Hurley from the Australian Financial Review has published a new story on an ongoing investigation by the ACCC into the activities of RealEstate.com.au and to a lesser extent Domain.com.au. Questions directed at some of Australia’s leading real estate groups have seemed to focus on [...]
Long Forgotten Internet History
I have just realised that tomorrow the 17th of Feb (or that could be today, or even yesterday, depending on when you read this!) is my 10th anniversary of having a presence on the internet. The day I uploaded my first website www.underdownunder.com.au for my business at the time, a backpacker tour company in Tasmania. [...]
Real Estate Online Statistics & Demographics – Portals
The Google Adplanner service allows advertisers more information on popular websites including demographic and traffic information. Now whilst I don’t want to advertise on any of these sites we can still use the information to compare the portals and major brands in our industry and the results throw up some predictable and not so predictable [...]
Realestateview.com.au wants to play with the big boys?
It seems that realestateview.com.au wants to play with the big boys and in doing so, will definitely come under the telescope from other industry groups and agents across Australia. Let me make this clear, I think it is great to see more competition and realestateview.com.au have certainly ramped up efforts in recent times, however there [...]
Domain.com.au Agrees to Upload Over 1700 Private Sellers in One Go
It will be very interesting to see how the real estate community reacts to domain.com.au’s decision to allow some 1739 Private Seller listings to be uploaded onto their site by buymyplace.com.au. Property Portal Watch author Alice Allen announced that “Listings from For Sale By Owner portal buymyplace.com.au have now been added to domain.com.au,” For years [...]
After it all settles down……
Anytime you get a press release from a company touting ‘a revolution’ in anything you can be pretty sure it is going to be a disappointment. For the most part agents have liked it, however I really feel that the majority of consumers I have spoken to have not liked the new site and this [...]
So can Simon Baker’s Nestoria.com.au out-Google Google?
Simon Baker, the ex-CEO of REA has invested in bringing the Nestoria property portal to Australia. Nestoria.co.uk is the 4th most popular real estate site in the UK. There are some interesting connections going on here. Firstly Nestoria is an aggregator of property listings. They receive listing data from a range of other companies. Ultimately they are [...]
Google Real Estate will force the portals to embrace, open and innovate or die!
Slowly but surely Google Real Estate is making inroads into the Australian real estate market with the recent signing of LJ Hooker on top of most of the major players in real estate in Australia. It will take longer for all of the smaller independent agents to come onboard, however it is clear that this [...]
How REA buries agents in search results
Google doesn’t like duplicate content. People suspected of using it to manipulate search results are punished, often by their site being banished from a high rank in a search. Duplicate content is often legitimate and Google understands this. Take property listings for example. Jane Smith is a real estate agent. She uses MyDesktop to upload [...]
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Beating realestate.com.au, and other fantasies
- Is Domain threatening Competition within the real estate industry?
- Real Estate Group Blocks Syndication to National Property Portals
- Ray White Offices Delivered a Sucker Punch by ex-Agent? **updated**
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Thoughts on Realestate.com.au’s dominance
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The True Impact of the Internet on Holiday Rental Property Management
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Rent.com.au grows 300%
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Why SOPA / PIPA matters to us all
- Ray White Offices Delivered a Sucker Punch by ex-Agent? **updated**
- Real Estate Group Blocks Syndication to National Property Portals
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Rent.com.au grows 300%
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Why SOPA / PIPA matters to us all
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The True Impact of the Internet on Holiday Rental Property Management
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Thoughts on Realestate.com.au’s dominance
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Beating realestate.com.au, and other fantasies
- Is Domain threatening Competition within the real estate industry?
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