Enormo, the global property portal, says it has reached a milestone, achieving 10 million listings.
It claims to be the first website to collect and display such a large and widespread pool of residential and commercial property.
The website – which, perhaps inadvisedly, changed its name from properazzi to Enormo last autumn – says it is now listing four million houses, four million apartments, 700,000 land plots and niche property types like castles, ranches and penthouses in millions of locations, with a natural concentration on Europe, the US, South Africa and India.
Enormo currently has around 411,000 listings for the UK, split one-third rentals to two-thirds sales (eg period property for sale in Cambridge).
CEO Yannick Laclau said: “The aim of Enormo has always been to ‘open up’ the real estate world so that buyers and tenants can access everything on offer, and the best deals are not hidden in a language they don’t speak or on a portal they don’t know.
“Enormo is coming closer to advertising every property in the world.”
Global portal reaches10m listings across the world
24 July 2009
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It will not be long before a sharp agent takes this site to court for scraping properties without permission. We have already seen whgat happens to scraping sites from Tesco and the other news headline about homers.co.uk. This is suddenly the new trend for wannabe property portals and I cannot see it lasting. I hope you have permission for all of your properties.
Looked at a couple of listings for my area (Lothian, Scotland) and found that (a) none of the listings on Enormo have any pictures, and (b) all they've done is 'scrape' them from other portals such as s1homes.......
s1homes typically is second-hand from the agents' own websites, so Enormo is essentially a third-hand portal that's lost the property pictures along the way.......