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Zoopla reveals plans to be next big-hitting property portal
Wednesday 21st January 2009Property website Zoopla has raised a total of almost £5.5m new funding, including £3.75m from venture capital firms Atlas Venture and Octopus Ventures – and expects to erupt shortly into the estate agency market.
Zoopla already claims to be one of the top five most-visited property websites in the UK (source: Nielsen, Dec 08) having achieved over five million visits and 40 million page views in its first 12 months.
So far, it has been best known for offering consumers instant house price data, including how much their neighbours’ houses went for and what their own homes are worth. It also helps users find local agents through its directory FindAnAgent and its AskAnAgent feature.
But now Zoopla will be turning its attention to the professional market.
Zoopa revealed that it expects shortly to be accepting estate agents’ listing feeds, with a pay-for-performance model, and says it will provide agents with the most cost-effective, no-risk portal for agents to use.
Alex Chesterman, founder and CEO of Zoopla, said: “With our latest funding we will continue to champion transparency and efficiency in the property market and are focused on empowering users with information and helping estate agents make the most of their marketing spend.
“The challenging housing market outlook further increases the relevance of Zoopla.co.uk’s services at a time when consumers’ thirst for information is increasing in the face of difficult property decisions, and estate agents seek more cost-effective ways of obtaining enquiries and building their inventory pipeline.”
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Posted By Poortal on Thursday 12th February 2009 12:58:19
 Get Profile | Why should they be free? It is clear that you want to use them but don't want to pay for it!!!! How do sell or rent you property? mostly through leads from these portals. Why are you moaning? It's because of your dirty tactics in getting us all in this mess in the first place! Back handers, bribes you name it. YOU DESERVE TO PAY! |
Posted By agent007 on Wednesday 11th February 2009 13:09:18
Get Profile | sorry - I don't know what "buters" are either - buyers I meant. Also, I have trouble deciding on where to stand on the portal should be "free" or not debate. Yes, there is no such thing as a free lunch - so they say BUT - they are your listings - you the agent have worked hard to win those instructions. The technology to run a portal website is simple and the costs of servers etc.. cheap - the crucial thing is the listings - so I tend to agree - a portal should be free to agents (or very low cost) and make it's money off of value added stuff (e.g. premium display etc...). |
Posted By agent007 on Wednesday 11th February 2009 13:04:24
Get Profile | ProperyLive (from the NEAE) would stand a chance of becoming the de-facto, first-stop, one-stop portal for buters if: a) they got someone in to sort the IT out b) they allowed ANY AGENT to list for free. They are shooting themselves in the foot by only offering free lsitings to members as by virtue of that they will not get the listings of a large number of agents - ergo - will not compete with rightmove. |
Posted By James Mkane on Thursday 5th February 2009 12:09:15
Get Profile | all portals should be Free? Are you people smoking dry shit. Tell me how they will fund the marketing thay will get the traffic quality traffic that will get us good leads. Oh and... how will they get funds to run the portal...oh and ermm dont forget the small matter of people getting paid every month. Why dont you clown try and sell houses for free you bunch of clowns. |
Posted By MikeAtZoomf on Tuesday 27th January 2009 17:56:16
Get Profile | Just to comment on the 'all portals should go away' comment... end of the day, consumers will always need an aggregator of information, especially properties. With approximately 1 million properties in the market, you need an interface to query that list. Property portals are basically in a race to provide the biggest list with the best tools to interrogate that list. They also need to be savvy marketers to grow an audience for their respective website. Zoopla and Look4aProperty are in the same race. It goes without saying that portals also need to provide a compelling reason for estate agents to work with them. Then you mix in the 'freemium' business model. This is where the true challenge lies for mr new portal.com and the incumbent gorillas ie rightmove etc. |
Posted By Stato on Friday 23rd January 2009 20:36:05
Get Profile | "Stato2" Calling me an idiot says more about you than it does me, my friend. I am merely presenting the facts and backing them up with data - flickr.com/estateagent which is more than can be said for you. Your post reminds me of the writing style of someone calling themselves Chris Williams who was slagging Property Insider off a while back. He said "Property Outsider is a FRAUDSTER!!" and you are saying "you must be a complete IDIOT!!". See the pattern folks? For some reason, you are extremely defensive of Look4aproperty. Are you/Chris Williams/Aaron Turner one and the same??!! Could be wrong but the facts speak for themselves. As for my intentions, I will support any portal that supports their words with deeds. If Look4aproperty or any other portal actually spent the money on advertising rather than just talking about it to sign up new agents, then maybe I would be on there too. As it is, Rightmove provides 80% of our web leads - the rest from our site. If anyone other than 'Chris Williams' or 'Stato2' has lots of quality leads from look4aproperty - then let them come forward and tell everyone about it. |
Posted By Stato2 on Friday 23rd January 2009 10:23:37
Get Profile | STATO - you must be a complete IDIOT!! I use free portals and look4aproperty.com and i get loads of good quality enquiries. I'll bet your properties are poor quality hence why you get almost no leads. You are not an agent in Newcastle are you serving DHSS landlords??? I'm supporting look4aproperty.com because (a) I am a paying client and (b) James CAAN with his £400m worth will make sure look4aproperty.com goes somewhere with Turner. For Christ sake, instead of being a doom monger why don't you just channel your nagativity and get behind look4aproperty.com - after all wouldn't you like to see them hurt rightmove and bring fees down for all agents - isn;t this what you want afterall? |
Posted By Barry Williams on Friday 23rd January 2009 08:31:27
Get Profile | This site wants to do away with estate agents and let buyers contact sellers directly... You'd be mad to list your properties on here. |
Posted By Russ on Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:36:13
Get Profile | Stato? why are you refering in your last post to "their intention"? please dont tarnish me with the same brush, there is some ecellent posts on here lets keep it that way |
Posted By Stato on Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:17:55
Get Profile | Note to EAT: When you delete the comments below, please don't delete the entire thread. I imagine that's the intention of their trolling. |
Posted By Russ on Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:10:25
Get Profile | Fred, you can come and do mine after if you want |
Posted By Stato on Wednesday 21st January 2009 16:01:08
Get Profile | Jason said: "if anyone can do it Caan & Turner Can" Funny how many multi branch independents show up on here - make a comment in support of look4aproperty.com and then never return. What are the chances? Why not have a look at the numbers... flickr.com/estateagent look4aproperty is represented on the graph by the flat, blue line. It's hard to see but I think you get the idea. It's the line that's just above the horizontal axis. Go to Alexa.com and compare different portals for yourselves. If you think I am being unfair, just look at the data. As much as I wish the free/cheap portals would work as much as anyone else, the reality is - you are on crack if you think look4aproperty or anyone else is going to be any more than a niche player. (Stands back and waits for abuse.) |
Posted By propertytroll on Wednesday 21st January 2009 15:55:21
Get Profile | Great to see somone innovating in this market. Gets my vote every time the business models around the corner will need to be embraced they are so compelling ... |
Posted By Rebel on Wednesday 21st January 2009 14:01:43
Get Profile | I hate Rightmove as much as the next man, but be careful with these free listing sites. Many of them are using consumer enquiry data to sell conveyancing, mortgages, HIPs, EPCs, removals etc cutting agents out. |
Posted By Mike on Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:16:03
Get Profile | Not an agent but an interested observer, reading the thread here you'd put a stop on all innovation within the property sector and close all the portals down. If its bad now then then it would be far worse in that type of market. Agents have had the market with them over the last few years and I for one have no sympathy for the badly run ones that are now going out of business and bleating on here. Stop fighting the portals and innovators like Zoopla, embrace them, work with them to make they advertising work for you , they are not going away |
Posted By Steve in Yorkshire on Wednesday 21st January 2009 13:05:06
Get Profile | Zoopla is not a portal - it's a site that gets the public to sell their properties direct to each other. This site is the kind of thing killing agents faster than Gordon Brown!!! Why is this even being publicised here Rosalind? As for those agents here having a go at the portals - give it a rest - if you don't like what they do, then take your properties off them (we've withdrawn from any that charge for listing or buyers - we think it should be free). |
Posted By Russ on Wednesday 21st January 2009 12:53:25
Get Profile | I think most of these property portals are about as useful as a chocolate tea pot, and for what rightmove now costs compared to two years ago it makes me sick. |
Posted By D Jefferson on Wednesday 21st January 2009 12:38:51
Get Profile | Pls can we stop calling him James Caan. That's the bloke from The Godfather and Elf. |
Posted By Mike Tidball on Wednesday 21st January 2009 12:28:21
Get Profile | Look4aProperty.com is also useless. We have been on it for ages and we get near to nothing from it as well. I think we should just stick with Rightmove. |
Posted By John Dalton on Wednesday 21st January 2009 12:23:37
Get Profile | Zoopla is a FSBO (For Sale By Owner) website! |
Posted By AHampshireAgent on Wednesday 21st January 2009 12:15:42
Get Profile | This site is dangerous, doesn't reflect the real value of individual properties just serves as a tool to drive the market down further. Uses some sort of scientific formula devised by its deluded creators! |
Posted By Ali Babba on Wednesday 21st January 2009 11:12:35
Get Profile | Well yes another property portal! How many is that at the moment, how many since it all started? How many more to go and fall before we all realise that they should all be free for agnents because without us they wouldn't exist, I'm fed up with them all, the best site is always your own with your own properties and vendors! |
Posted By Sleepless in Ashford MNAEA on Wednesday 21st January 2009 11:07:35
Get Profile | Yawnnnn!!! Not another one. What part of "there aren't many buyers out there" do they not understand? If I had a sale for every new property portal to lauch in the last six months I could book my holiday in the Caribbean now!! I also would back Look4aproperty - if any portal. Good luck Zoopla, you will need plenty of it! |
Posted By Jason Tongue on Wednesday 21st January 2009 10:54:52
Get Profile | These Idiots aint got a clue - Rightmove have spent £100m on marketing their brand so £5.5m is frankly "pissing in the wind" As an agent with 4 branches, I have to say ALL the portals are dead unless they can demonstrate REAL value for their agents! My money is on James Caan and Aaron Turner at LOOK4APROPERTY.COM - if anyone can do it Caan & Turner Can! Seriously, Good Luck to Zoopla - they may need lots of it!! |
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