Today, Homehound launched “Home Style” which is an interactive gallery displaying images of ideas for home renovations. They have 10,000 + photographs which they believe will provide inspiration for key room makeovers and renovations within the home. James Hannan, General Manager of Independent Digital Media says: Home Style’s galleries of interiors and exteriors will help users decide what [...]
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How to Improve Your Results on Google Real Estate
One of the big complaints by real estate agents when the Google Real Estate service started up was that the 2nd and 3rd tier real estate portals were actively pushing the agents properties to Google as well. Agents where uploading property portals like Homehound, Myhome and Onthehouse who were then turning around and re-uploading the [...]
Google, REA & Domain – What’s The Deal?
There’s been a lot of speculation about why REA & Domain haven’t uploaded listings onto Google Maps real estate search as yet & I believe the main reason why is Money. Reading between the lines Google, REA & Domain could stand to make a lot of money out of this deal. My theory is that [...]
Google launches real estate map search Australia
At 3.00pm today Google launched their new real estate search mapping tool which allows real estate agents to publish their listings for free and the public to browse listings. The site has a number of new features. Users of the site can search for listings in a particular suburb and then refine the listings down [...]
Someone is Thinking Outside of the Hound Box!
This afternoon I was lucky enough to receive a press release from Homehound highlighting the recent updates they’ve made to their website. I don’t often use Homehound (as the map search irritates me) but after seeing what they’ve done I must say I was impressed! From their press release: Homehound Continues To Deliver! We’ve focused [...]
Portals playing with fees?
Over the last few months it has become increasingly aware to me that Australia’s largest real estate portals are toying with the idea of playing with their fee structures charged to agents for advertising their vendors listings. Currently realestate.com.au charges a flat fee and domain.com.au charges fees dependant on your area (city or country) and [...]
Whatever happened 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 [...]
Are MyHome and Homehound merging?
There have been a few whispers circulating that MyHome and Homehound are about to merge or are at least in talks of a merger. I don’t know how much weight I can lend to these whispers but it would be interesting on a number of issues. I hope they do to be honest and I [...]
Whats Dumb? Homehound Google campaign!
It amazes me what people will do from time to time with their Google Adwords Marketing. However, this one from Homehound I doubt will endear them to the many agents who are not partners. It seems that Homehound are targeting non partners and using their business names in Google Adword campaigns. So if you did [...]
Homehound re- launch
Homehound.com today relaunched a new site with a real Web 2.0 feel. I actually like many features of this site and some I do not like at all. Whilst there is nothing new, it is the first portal of note to actually launch a front line offering with this technology. The site looks a little [...]
Back to school for new portals!
After reading the article in The Australian it may seem to be getting worse for MyHome as from what I have read it looks as though the equity deals that have been mooted have reached a major impasse with many of the franchises not able to take a stake in MyHome after inking a deal [...]
National Residential Showdown 2006
Rating real estate portals can be a tricky thing but I think it is important for agent to know which ones matter. I have also added some hints and tips to understand how to make the most out of each portal. So here is a quick overview of each of the portals. Realestate.com.au (Residential Sales [...]
Homehound to offer Premium Listings
How inventive! Homehound are now offering Premium listings for $50.00. I have been saying for a while that these new sites will not be able to help themselves. Why it will work It won’t, you are not going to get agents paying $50 to promote listings on a site that is yet to give them [...]
Who will challenge Realestate.com.au?
Realestate.com.au continue to dominate real estate portals in Australia. So much so now, if something does not happen quickly, it will be all over for its rivals. This is not good news for Agents, however as far as consumers are concerned it makes life easier only having one portal to search for all available properties. [...]
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