The only international conference for major property portal owners and operators is meeting in New York on January 26 - the day that Agents' Mutual's OnTheMarket portal launches in the UK.
The Property Portal Conference says it will meet on January 26 and 27 in the light of what it calls a momentous 2014 for the property portal industry.
It says the highlights were the merger in the US or Trulia and Zillow, the decision by News Corp to buy Move, and the valuations of portals taking a breather and coming off by up to 40 per cent as well as the arrival of first or new portals in emerging markets such as India, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.
There is nothing to say that 2015 will not be even more momentous says a spokesman for the conference.
There will be more mergers, more capital raising, greater competition on all fronts, agent lead portals, some market leaders being attacked and losing their leadership, and much much more.
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cant wait for Jan 26th anyway to see what will happen with AM - lots of gossip then !
Could be some awkward small-talk taking place.