Private selling property website notestateagents.com has been thrown off Primelocation and FindaProperty after angry EAT readers raised the topic.
Jon Notley, group sales director, said: “We operate strict advertiser entry criteria that was created to safeguard the essential role estate and letting agents perform in the property market. The company in question satisfied an element of the criteria as a member of an independently recognised trade body, but further scrutiny would have prevented them from advertising with The Digital Property Group.
“We have removed the business and their properties from our portals. We have also refused many requests to advertise from similar companies. The Digital Property Group is committed to ensuring that the interests of our member agents are fully preserved."
Meanwhile, mypropertyforsale.co.uk/selling.php which boasts on its website that it is not an estate agent but has properties listed on Rightmove, has also been drawn to the attention of the UK’s biggest portal.
However, this advertising is still allowed.
Yesterday a spokesman for Rightmove said: “We held discussions with this website to verify the nature of their service prior to allowing them to advertise on Rightmove. The properties they advertise on our site are done so via a premium upgrade service.
“For properties advertised in this way the website provides a full estate agency service (valuation, negotiations, etc) and they are credited estate agents in compliance with PMA. We monitor the properties being uploaded by them. We strictly don’t allow private sellers to list on our site.”
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seems they are still advertising findaproperty and PL
I advertised using a modern thinking OnLine "Agent"for Let on rightmove.I let a very difficult property in less than 7 days and due to the surprising demand also increased the rent. I will never use a traditional high street agent again too expensive and a product of yesterday.
More sour grapes? EAs can't bear the existing model to be challenged one iota because they know it won't last. It's a busted flush. Matching buyers and sellers is now done electronically. EAs have had it too good for too long. Private selling on Google is just round the corner.
It's alright for you guys, but I don't have a window. Where should I put my pitiful little window sticker ?
Broken Record (is that your real name):
Read my posts fully and perhaps you will understand more. Agents advertise RM much more than 'a few pitiful little window stickers' and I am not saying PL can 'take over' RM. In my view and within this particular topic I truly believe Propertylive at the moment is the only real alternative portal that has the potential to give RM some competition. It also has the benifit of being 'By the Agents for the Agents'
If I am wrong - I am wrong - but that is my view.
I would like to know how a company with a name 'Not estate Agents.com' can actually get listed with TDPG who will only list estate agents, so I don't say WELL DONE for booting them off, they should never have been listed.
Why are agents so against having private party listings marketed online and listed against their own. Either agents provide an added value added service and their commissions are worth every penny or they don't. Simply trying to commercially bully private party listings that represent 5-10% of the market isn't going to work. You have to remember that the daddy of the private sell market is going to be Google and they can chew up RM and the others and spit them out for breakfast.
ray is that all you talk about property live and how rightmove are only big because you put a pitiful little window sticker up! get real they are big because they do huge amounts of marketing on TV etc! rightmove has been around for 10 years so i would like to know how you work out in 12 months propertylive could take them over if everyone puts a sticker in their window its a drop in a small ocean! but getting back on to topic i think this is a good thing portals are there to send leads to estate agents so if private sellers are dodging this and getting on the sites through so called estate agents this isnt a good thing for the portals so im glad they are weeding them out and booting them off
Hurrah for TDPG doing this - quite right. Other than for the occasional private transaction between friends or family, private sellers really aren't very bright and are people that the rest of us can safely ignore. I think agents should ignore the whole concept, because still 90%+ of vendors CHOOSE to use an agent. Just focus on being the agent who gets chosen, rather than worrying about the false-economy minority who think they're saving money by selling privately.
This is a repeat of one of my previous posts....................One thing that all agents should bear in mind is that it is YOU who have made Rightmove successful - with all the free advertising you provide for them on your own websites, property details, newpapers etc. etc.! If you did the same for PropertyLive within 12 months it could be doing the job for you - for free! By the way what would you all do if RM did decide to carry private ads in the future - who can say they will not?
Oh, and how RM would know whether or not ANY agent is 'in compliance with PMA'? I smell b******t...
Could someone please explain to me what a 'credited agent' is?
I also raised the matter with NESTORIA who takes feeds from most of the main play portals and they were happy to ask notestateagents to remove NESTORIAs logos etc. We do not agree with private sales sites in the interest of agents and the consummers
There are lots of private sellers sites that use smoke and mirrors to pretend to be agents - often never visiting the houses they are listing - using clients' own photos and descriptions, sometimes the DEA's do the work.
When will Rightmove and others wake up to the fact that if an agent does not visit the house, they are not really and truthfully acting like an agent - kick them off I say.