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 [...]
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Real Estate Photos Being Altered But By Domain Not Open2View
On a slow news day late last month an eagle eye reporter of the Dominion Post newspaper in New Zealand reported on the shocking crime of turning the sky blue! The local Open2View real estate photographer had the temerity to use the same cloud formation on different photos and the Dominion Post caught them in [...]
Google Caffeine: The Winners and Losers
When Google releases new products or updates to existing products they usually do so with very little warning. One day it’s just there. Google recently announced that it was going to release major changes to their search engines. Unlike other updates which Google has completed a preview of these new search results can be found [...]
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 [...]
Dumb and Dumber Real Estate Awards 2008
Well what a year it has been, with just about every major company in the real estate and classifieds market vying for entry into this years awards. So how do you make our dumb and dumber awards? Well quite simply, you make a schoolboy mistake, try to cover something up or worse still knowingly do [...]
Smart marketing for the future!
The downturn the industry has endured over the past few years has been tough. However in these times the cream rises to the top and will be back thriving again when the markets settle and grow. It is time to get smart about your marketing. Bully Boys Bullies are out, if you are told that [...]
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 [...]
myhome Under Renovation!
In another post I was asked to comment about my thoughts on the recent article in the Australian Real Estate Bulletin on myhome titled “Under Renovation”. Since that question was off topic I thought it worthwhile to give the response its own post. If you have not seen the article you can read the online version (whilst Issue [...]
Interview with Simon Baker
On Thursday evening I had a phone hookup with Simon Baker, former Managing Director of Realestate.com.au. We spoke about a range of issues and I will place some excerpts from the interview here. Simon recently departed from Realestate.com.au in the typical pathetic fashion that large organisations feel necessary and from his blog My CEO Life [...]
Some Interesting Web Traffic Statistics
Google Trends has allowed users to compare the the number of searches for specific keywords. You could compare how popular searches for “Sydney Real Estate For Sale” compared against “Sydney Property For Sale”. Just recently Google has added the ability to compare actual visitors to specific sites. Your site has to produced significant traffic to [...]
MyHome lives again!
Perhaps we were all a little hasty with the demise of MyHome. It was announced today that Shane Dale has taken over MyHome and is now the sole proprietor. MyHome now will become a free listing website, although whether this is short term or long term I am not sure. It seems that Mr Dale [...]
MyHome to close its doors
As reported in the weekend Financial Review it seems MyHome will be closing its doors at the end of the month. This might be no surprise to those close to MyHome but to me it really goes down as the Chicken Heart Award of the year. PBL don’t launch too many products that fail so [...]
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 [...]
REA Group announce increase in revenue and growth
The REA today released a massive increase in revenue (50%) and 68% EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation) for the 6 months ending 31st December 2007. Today REA operates in 12 countries and controls 18 real estate websites, 8 print publications and a variety of other software tools. Here is a snapshot of [...]
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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
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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
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