Top 10 UK Property Portals

March 2nd, 2012

Great news for Rightmove dominating across the board as the number 1 property portal website; however as mentioned earlier in the week by Glenn Ackroyd in his post on Property118 The letting portals providing the best exposure; Rightmove only accounts for just over half the total market.  So depending on who you are advertising your property too, will help you decide what other portals to use to gain exposure to the right tenant.

In the UK market, Rightmove dominates.  In fact this has really not changed for the last 5 – 10 years. Back in 2005, the property portal market had four main players – Rightmove, Primelocation, Findaproperty and Propertyfinder. In 2009 Zoopla acquired propertyfinder  for a bargain to rocket itself into the top three. Continue reading »


Uploading properties to property portals

January 20th, 2012

portals

Last week’s blog post outlined our plans for developing RentPro over the course of the next year, but the survey in October also highlighted that there are existing features with our management software which many landlords and letting agents are not aware of, or are not using to their full extent. To this end, we’ll be focussing on some of these software features in our blog posts, explaining the benefits you can enjoy from using them, as well as offering practical advice on how to get the most from them. Starting this week with the ability to upload to property portals, which improves the marketing of vacant properties, and helps reduce rental voids… Continue reading »