The Property Owl Blog

The scraping issues we raised a while ago refuses to go away and now Hannells Estate Agents is allegedly ‘poised’ to commence proceedings against Home.co.uk so reports estateagenttoday.

There are a growing number of comments appearing on the estateagenttoday forum ranging from support to the usual let’s get rid of rightmove type, but it is [...]

Globrix has a new home page and some other new goodies inside.

Constructive criticism is always of use and my humble comments are below.

Moving from a google style search page to what I would call a more traditional based home page requires going back to basics a little. It requires a review of basic [...]

Further to my earlier mentions about Sarah Beeny’s site, Tepilo, I thought I would have a quick look to see how she is getting on.

I was viewing a property in North London and wondered whether this was the work of a bona fide seller or the work of an agent. Well, what [...]

Is Zoopla buying all the portals and/or have they abandoned the PropertyFinder deal?

Zoopla announced that is has purchased thinkproperty.com for an undisclosed sum.

One, two or ten portal purchases, the real management challenge is integrating these portals and creating one dominant brand.

There are of course still too many portals and whilst this will [...]

I wrote a long time ago that the single largest threat for the property portal game was Google entering the space (not exactly ground breaking foresight, but I do like to remind some people!). Anyway, Google Base was around then, but now it is being widely reported that Google Australia has launched ‘… a [...]

The Negotiator opens discussion on what lawyers will no doubt describe as a grey area.

Home.co.uk is accused by one agent as mis-marketing that agent’s property details. These details have been acquired through the process of scraping or to give it the politicians title ‘indexing’.

The argument goes something along the lines of: [...]