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Home races into lead with most properties on site

Monday 20th June 2011

The Digital sites of Primelocation and Findaproperty appear to be beating Zoopla in terms of the number of searchable properties for sale.

However, none comes near Rightmove’s inventory.

The research, from property search engine Home, also unsurprisingly claims that Home itself – which amalgamates properties from virtually every property website and portal in the UK – lists most properties.

It suggests that Home lists over 700,000 properties, with Rightmove listing slightly under 700,000.

Listing 400,000 properties are FindaProperty and Primelocation.

Zoopla is said to list 300,000 properties followed by Mouseprice listing 200,000 and PropertyLive listing just under 200,000, followed by Vebra and Fish4.

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Added by Ric on 2011-06-21 12:20:21

Why would any agent pay Zoopla to advertise their houses? Each property listing page potentially undermines the very job the agent is trying to acheive by allowing Zoopla to put wildly inaccurate estimates of the value and allow for the price reductions to be tracked.

I appreciate some will say great for buyers BUT as it is the agent who pays Zoopla, so why do you (the paying agent do it?). I have had this out with Zoopla and said drop the estimates and the price tracking and I would consider listing, this would triple their coverage in the areas we cover but they dont listen!

To all none Zoopla Agents, pick a property where they (Zoopla) estimate one of your competitors houses less than it actually is on the market for (by lets say 5% down) and you have the perfect tool to suggest to the vendor of that house that the agent you are using is defeating their own objectives of getting your house sold by using Zoopla. (I appreciate the odd property may have a better or accurate estimate but on the whole they are well out and the correct ones I think should be called "our guess at value")

Dont get me wrong, not a big fan of RM either but atleast they tend to just advertise on the whole without any in your face under estimates.

Added by yetti man on 2011-06-21 07:27:44

zooplas valuation tool is dreadful totally misleading to the public this has to go.

Added by PbroAgent on 2011-06-20 17:51:59

I recently registered my details on Home to test it and get a valuation with my own agency. We never received an email in the office and I eventually received a message to my personal account from Home telling me that the office hadn't responded to their message (which we didn't get) and to contuct us directly.

What a fat lot of good that was.

Added by Mouseprice.com on 2011-06-20 14:08:14

Just to correct Home.co.uk's figures, Mouseprice actually currently lists a total of 751,033 searchable properties. We've had quite a bit of success getting agents to list on our site, as it's completely free to do so.

Added by anna on 2011-06-20 13:00:23

Home's search is rubbish. Rightmove still clear winners on all counts, excpet what they charge!

Added by duncan bannatyne on 2011-06-20 12:45:25

Thats ironic,
Zoopla telling others that their figures are incorrect. Had a look at your valuation tool lately?

....and for those reasons, im out

Added by JC on 2011-06-20 12:42:31

I'm sick of my competitors listing old properties on portals; it gives the rest of us a bad name.

If Zopla's stats are wrong, I'd imagine they're all wrong.

Added by Lawrence Hall on 2011-06-20 11:53:08

Figures quoted by Home.co.uk for Zoopla.co.uk are incorrect.

We publish our figures (daily/transparently) on the home page of Zoopla.co.uk (scroll the widget bar at the bottom).

We seem to be the only ones who publish our figures.

Today we have:

For sale properties - 387,977
Rental properties - 146,134
Total properties: 534,111

Added by Agent prize on 2011-06-20 11:44:01

Yes but HOME is irrelevant to agents. It sends it traffic to the portals that pay for it. It means nothing to us,

Added by nero2512 on 2011-06-20 11:30:09

Its a shame that most of the properties on Primelocation and Find a Property are out of date despite being asked to remove them!

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