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Not enough to be on one portal (even if it is Rightmove), says survey

Wednesday 16th December 2009

The average estate agency office advertises on three of the major portals, whilst 6.9% do not advertise on any of the top portals at all. A new survey by property search engine Home looked at the online advertising of 14,660 estate agent offices across the UK, on the 11 largest portals.

These were, in order, Rightmove, Zoopla, Primelocation, FindaProperty, Fish4, Homes24, Propertylive, Mouseprice, Look4aproperty, Propertyindex and Property Today.

The survey found that 13,664 agents (93% of those surveyed) advertise on at least one of these portals. Rightmove and Zoopla carry properties for 70% and 49% of the agent offices respectively.

One estate agent, in Kent, advertises on ten of the portals, but one in five agents only advertises on only one major portal and one in 14 agents advertises on none of them.

Further analysis shows that the agents that advertise the most widely have by far the lowest Time on Market figures.

Agents with the best sales turnover rates are those that advertise their clients’ properties on seven or more of the major portals.

Typical Time on Market figures show that properties listed for sale at branches which advertise on seven or more portals remain on the books for 56 fewer days (31% less marketing time) than those at agents that only advertise on one of the major portals.

Doug Shephard, business development director at Home, said the survey showed that just being on Rightmove is not enough to give agents the best property sales turnover.

“As we’ve being saying time and time again, agents really need to consider reach when planning their online advertising campaigns. More portals equals greater reach and a much faster sales turnover.

“Moreover, prospective vendors can easily find how widely an agent advertises online and this encourages more instructions.

“These startling figures clearly indicate that agents can reinvigorate their businesses by advertising more widely.”

Home.co.uk

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Posted By list of free portals on Friday 8th January 2010 09:26:52

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nt, the free portals are Mouseprice.com, Globrix.com, Home.co.uk (who did this great bit of research). Soon enough these will be joined by Google. We are on all these portals including another one which I will not mention.

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Posted By PropertyMatch on Wednesday 23rd December 2009 12:16:09

The new (Africa) rightmove advert is an unashamed plug on behalf of estate agents, rather than letting people do their own selling online and save the fees.

Agents don't have too many houses to sell and desperately need the business but why is this?

Because they've scared too many sellers off trying to move house, by quoting over-egged asking prices and causing lengthy times to find buyers.
Now they're boasting about spending literally millions more pounds on an advertising campaign designed to try and fix the problem.

If they'd just spent half of that amount of money on training their teams to do accurate market appraisal valuations in the first place, they wouldn't have seen a shortage of sellers in the first place.

When will they ever learn?

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Posted By Richard on Thursday 17th December 2009 17:37:08

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and Home have no interest in getting agents on more than one site- theirs perhaps?? If considering them see posts on previous story of their Private Sales success at agents expense and suggest pull all property away fast- fund a competitor seems strange.

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Posted By nt on Wednesday 16th December 2009 11:43:30

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Can you list those free portals please Tim? Thanks

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Posted By Tim M on Wednesday 16th December 2009 09:30:41

Only one reason for an agent not getting sufficient exposure for their clients property....laziness. there are enough free portals out there.

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