Site that lets you track the opposition

Would Jeremy Ward please confirm if he is spidering Right Move?

• 10 November 2008 04:05 AM

Great if your one for sitting in your office but I feel its much better getting out there and really seeing what is happening. This seems to rely to much on data being input and we all know how that can be twisted!

• 05 November 2008 12:48 PM

Having tried a trial postcode it seems clear that the data is being obtained from Rightmove ! (I cna tell by the way the branch data is displayed and also our company website is impossible to Spider as it is totally flash and xml based).

As we all know, during a previous post with a survey - an extremely high percentage of agents are thinking of coming away from Rightmove and also, the data that they get isn't going to be accurate as all the agents that don't subscribe to the portals will not be included in the data. Those small percentages add up to a fair bit of market share.

Not very impressed - needs more advanced data capture (which probably won't happen as agents won't want to give up this info!)

• 04 November 2008 01:04 AM

Our product actually saves agents work and helps you manage your branches by showing a weekly picture of an office performance v your competition, plus providing many canvassing opportunities. Even in a tight market there can be no harm in trying to increase your market share, there are other methods already out there, (board counts etc) usually with high costs involved. Vizzihome has been developed after Consultation with some top UK agents, I personally have many years experience as an agent behind me also.

Here we have a product, rich in features, updated weekly and all for the price of a weekly sandwich and coffee!

• 04 November 2008 04:09 AM

If it takes "an hour a week" to track the competition's movements manually, and this product costs less than £5 a week, surely for all those whose time is worth more than £5 an hour, this is a worthwhile product, even if all it does is free up an hour of boring research and automate the results for you?

Perhaps not in a quiet market, but when things get busier again, or if there are too many properties, it may well be worth a trial at least.

Anything new is worth checking before being written off completely!

• 03 November 2008 06:23 AM

"...utilising the latest technologies to analyse the properties published on estate agency websites...." Isn't that called spidering?

• 03 November 2008 03:18 AM

dont forget chips willis what goes around comes around, is he getting paid to sell houses or play on the web all day?

• 03 November 2008 01:24 AM

Don't see any point in tracking the opposition at the moment, they're all closing.

• 03 November 2008 11:41 AM

Too right mind you sure some non IT minded agents will take it up mind at the moment most agents are just waiting for the next one to go!

• 03 November 2008 11:12 AM

Here Here Andrew Davis, the more reliant we as employers become on third parties the less likely we are to have a real insight into our position within our own areas and more likely to lose what knowledge and proportion of our market share.

• 03 November 2008 11:09 AM

Surely the described service is part of the routine of any well run agency anyway. Rightmove and every other commonly used property portal allows you to track new instructions, offers and completions with all competitors. It takes roughly an hour a week to keep up to date with movement on the property portals. We already know what our market share is, how many properties other agents have, how many new instructions there are, how many offers, how many completions and how many fall thrus. Surely the real value is not just knowing the figures for your market, but for each agent to know their own market property by property and investing the hour per week in keeping up to date rather than relying on a third party to provide summaries.

• 03 November 2008 10:13 AM