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Project Rebellion: RPData in the Firing Line

By on July 11, 2011 in Australia, Portals

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 [...]

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Good Friday RE Industry Wrap-Up

By on April 22, 2011 in Australia, Media, Portals, Research, Software, Technology

It’s been an action packed two weeks which started with REA’s sale of Realholidays and has built up since then. There is certainly some major restructuring taking place in Australia’s online real estate space: As a follow up to BuyMyPlace.com.au being kicked off REA other agent assisted and private selling sites including Forsaleforlease, Myhomeisforsale and [...]

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CEO Responds To Yet Another Stuff Up!!! Where is Our Data Going?

By on September 12, 2010 in Research, Technology

In response to my previous article Yet Another Stuff Up!!! Where is Our Data Going? I was contacted directly by the CEO of RPData – Graham Mirabito to clarify who was responsible for the data error. I invited Graham to comment directly on B2 or have me post the explanation of events for them. Here [...]

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RPData and Realestate.com.au Enter a “New” Strategic Alliance

By on March 23, 2009 in Portals, Soapbox

RPData and Realestate.com.au have entered into a strategic alliance, replacing a previous agreement that was set to expire later this year anyway.   Part of the original agreement included the transfer of the property.com.au to realestate.com.au, non compete clauses and the transfer of agents listing data from Realestate.com.au to RPData using a snippet from the [...]

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Privacy be damned!

By on December 4, 2007 in Portals

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) once said “Knowledge is Power” Its nearly 2008 and even after 400 years things have not changed that much. Data is knowledge, therefore today, data is power. Why is it then that agents put up with portals using our data for their own gains? The major portals have all [...]

apm, Domain, Ninemsn, REA, rpdata

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