As a follow up to Dave Platters excellent, well articulated post on why anyone “is dreaming” that they can beat real estate.com.au, it made me revisit an idea I had a few years back. I think for the most part Dave is correct, however there is something that needs to be done about property content [...]
I’m talking to you. Yes, you. The person who thinks you will start an Australian real estate portal that will shoot right past domain, dethrone realestate.com.au and become the new number one. Or, maybe you’re an agent who for some reason (perhaps because you have to send them a check every month?) doesn’t like realestate.com.au [...]
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 [...]
On Friday Fairfax announced plans to sell via an Initial Public Offering (on the NZX) between 30 to 35% of Trade Me – New Zealands largest online auctions and classifieds business. Fairfax is yet to indicate the proposed time for the float but said the funds are to be used to repay debt and increase [...]
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 [...]
Following from Charlie’s great little article yesterday I want to turn your attention to the so called ‘glossy wars’ being run across Australia. Over the past few weeks I have been receiving emails about a ‘heated’ war between Antony Catalano (MMP Holdings) and Fairfax’s Real Estate Print Guides. You can read a great little article [...]
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 [...]
When Telstra paid AUD $636 million for he Trading Post in 2004 many questioned yet another wasted acquisition for the Telco giant (the list is long). Today those questions have been vindicated as Telstra has now shut down the 22 print versions of the Trading Post to concentrate on the online edition. Another hit will [...]
Much has been written about newspapers and their demise. We have all read stories of how newspapers are bleeding all over the world and in cases like the Los Angeles Times (and The Chicago Tribune) filing for bankruptcy in the United States, not to mention that our own traditionally profitable newspapers are slowly losing profits [...]
Domain.com.au (through Domain Property Data) recently announced a new initiative to up the ante to arch rival Realestate.com.au. Here is a snippet from the Domain.com.au press release. Domain Property Data has always equipped you with the most reliable and accessible market knowledge. Now we are changing the industry by offering Domain.com.au agents free access to [...]
We are all too busy looking forward that we sometimes forget to look back. I needed to find an old article recently in the archives recently and came across some articles that I thought would be worth a revisit. I started around 18 months ago and looked forward about a year and came up with [...]
Realestateworld.com.au has been slowly building up their presence in the market, a few nights ago Win TV aired this peice on Realestateworld.com.au and their paper property guide. Its seems quite a few real estate agents jumped off the Fairfax owned property guide and went with Real Estate World. More competition means lower prices and there [...]
Fairfax Digital have been wrapped over the knuckles by the ACCC and have agreed not to advertise as ‘FREE’ a new mobile search service launched by Domain.com.au. Using the advertised service users of the site could view properties from domain.com.au on their mobile phone (http://m.domain.com.au)and receive ‘free’ SMS alerts. Only one problem, SMS alerts actually [...]
Every year since 2004 I have been adding my own dumb and dumber awards. Usually is it a hard slog getting so many out the door, but why was 2007 different? Anyway sit back and have a giggle at some of the dumbest moments in real estate and technology for 2007. PBL & MICROSOFT 1. [...]
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