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 [...]
After less than 18 months SOBOX.com.au has recently closed its doors. At its launch SOBOX (Short for Social Media in a Box) a wholly owned subsidiary of Classified Ad Ventures Pty Ltd promoted the importance of agents having a deeper involvement with social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Property Ad Guru has also [...]
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 [...]
Recently at the Real Estate Connect San Francisco show I had the pleasure of catching up with Simon Baker from www.listglobally.com (amongst other ventures) and had a chat with him about his new global listing service. Simon seemed very upbeat about www.listglobally.com which allows real estate agents to list properties for sale across the leading [...]
This weeks I spent a few days in San Francisco at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference. I had the pleasure of doing a talk on “Kick Ass Real Estate Websites” with Chris Pearson from DiyThemes.com. For those of you who do not know, Inman is a real estate news and technology website, very much [...]
Simon Baker, the ex-CEO of REA has invested in bringing the Nestoria property portal to Australia. Nestoria.co.uk is the 4th most popular real estate site in the UK. There are some interesting connections going on here. Firstly Nestoria is an aggregator of property listings. They receive listing data from a range of other companies. Ultimately they are [...]
The Chairman of the REA Group, Richard Freudenstein, today announced the appointment of Greg Ellis as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Ellis is currently Marketing Director Asia Online Services for Microsoft. He will take on the new role on Monday, 8 September.
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 [...]
REA Group today announced the departure of CEO and Managing Director – Simon Baker, effective immediately. Chief Financial Officer Georg Chmiel has been appointed as acting CEO until a replacement is announced. This comes as a little bit of a shock, I honestly thought Simon would be around until he was poached by another company. [...]
Realestate.com.au‘s CEO Simon Baker recently penned an article on how consumers in California are more interested in more pictures and virtual tours rather than ‘sexy maps’. The article written on the recently released Realestate.com.au web log titled ‘News from the CEO Desk’ is a pretty poor attempt at playing down the impending threats of new [...]
Having only just got off the phone with Simon Baker CEO of Realestate.com.au after an interesting 30 or so minutes of conversation.
Just when you thought it was safe to work out your marketing budget for 2005 – Realestate.com.au is releasing its own Property Print Guide in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
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