Over the past few months it really seems like every week we are seeing a new feature or improvement being released by one of the top two real estate portals. Realestate.com.au release a minor update in the past week that hides the phone details of agents and Domain.com.au released their Radar search recently.
So what are we going to see next?
One rumour that’s been flying around for quite awhile now is that realestate.com.au is going to integrate a review system into their portal. Back in February last year Dave Platter (ex- Corporate Public & Investor Relations Manager at The REA Group) as a then contributor to this blog tested the concept on the readers with a post called “Here’s one way real estate agents can control the web’s future“. Of course Dave was quick to point out that he and Shaun DeGregario the then realestate.com.au General Manager both denied that the company had any plans to integrate such a system into the portal. Read the rest of this article »
