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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Thoughts on Realestate.com.au’s dominance
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 [...]
Beating realestate.com.au, and other fantasies
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 [...]
Minor updates to Realestate.com.au
I believe this afternoon around 5.00pm Realestate.com.au deployed some minor updates to their portal. It did not run smoothly though as ads across the site, homepage news, info and other widgets including “what the locals think” all could not be connected. And at one stage the portal went down for a few minutes and was [...]
Upgrade your property on Realestate.com.au
Following on from the upgrade your listing feature launched by Thehomepage a few months ago, Realestate.com.au have added a similar feature to their listings. If you view any property on Realestate.com.au and click on the Show Page Visits link above the property images you will notice a lightbox popup, highlighting the Listing Performance for the property [...]
Viewproperty.com.au the new industry portal
Viewproperty.com.au aim to be a new “industry-owned” real estate portal designed to provide agents with an affordable alternative to the current offerings of Domain and Realestate.com.au. Apparently, the site is the result of 14 months planning and preparation by a group of Australian real estate agents and IT developers. View Property Australia CEO Ross Bulman [...]
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 [...]
Project Rebellion : Front Page News!
Over the past several weeks Ben Hurley from the Australian Financial Review has been conducting an investigation into the revolt by real estate agencies around the country against Realestate.com.au. Today on the front page of the Australian Financial Review Ben’s article “Real Estate Agents Revolt” appears. The article discusses hotly debated topics on this blog [...]
realEstate1 refuses to re-brand as mediation with REA breaks down
Further to this article posted on B2 Realestate.com.au takes legal action against Realestate1.com.au, recent mediation has taken place between the two parties in attempt to resolve the dispute. From a press release today: After a final mediation with the REA group yesterday, realEstate1 is refusing to be bullied into re-branding and will be fighting in the Federal [...]
Realestate.com.au Backs Down From The Fight!
Realestate.com.au has always promoted itself as a portal for real estate agents but recently we have seen a surge in real estate agents using technology to operate from a digital storefront and list their properties on the portal. At first many of these websites were not run by real estate agents but REA quickly enforced [...]
Lucky you’re with AAMI
Unless you have been hiding under a rock of late you will no doubt have heard that AAMI are closing all of its offices across the country. Some may be disappointed that they lack the customer service and will move on to other insurance agencies others will just grin and bear it. What will be [...]
The impact of Top Level Domains (TLD’s) like .realestate on the industry
There’s been a lot in the media recently about the soon to be released unlimited Top Level Domains (TLDs). Shortly, companies, governments and cashed up businesses will be able to purchase .anything and then offer for sale domain names www.example.anything for the TLD they own. Though this won’t be cheap, as to be considered as [...]