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MSE News: Why selling your home could get harder next week
Former_MSE_Joanne
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"A new high street estate agent-led property portal is launching that restricts the number of websites its members can advertise properties on"
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It is easy to sell privately on line without a greasy estate agent through companies like
https://www.housenetwork.co.uk/
https://www.houseweb.co.uk/prop/sell.html
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+sell+your+house+on+line+privately+without+estate+agents&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=ubuntu&channel=fs&gfe_rd=cr&ei=unDCVNWKEsyq8wfj_IDQAg&gws_rd=ssl#Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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Not Buying it 2015!0 -
So people will have to search 3 portals not two?
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I reckon we all go straight to Rightmove anyway and I don't suppose that will change.0
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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »I reckon we all go straight to Rightmove anyway and I don't suppose that will change.
Unless OTM is a huge hit - seeing properties before they are listed on the other portals, surely you'd check there first?0 -
How can they say they want to "disrupt the duopoly" when this seems deliberately set up to create a new one (OnTheMarket.com and Rightmove)?0
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I will try this new service on Monday but I expect there to be zero properties in my area as the agents listed in the article don't operate where I live.0
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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »I reckon we all go straight to Rightmove anyway and I don't suppose that will change.
There are lots of things I like about Zoopla so I use both, I love the 'Most popular' feature on Zoopla that shows how many people have viewed online over the last month!0 -
How can they say they want to "disrupt the duopoly" when this seems deliberately set up to create a new one (OnTheMarket.com and Rightmove)?
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/welsh-agents-ditch-rightmove-favour-zoopla/
100 branches in wales won't be listed on Rightmove...so there people will turn to OTM and Zoopla.0 -
As the article says - the goal is to break the Rightmove/Zoopla duopoly - which has to be good.
More competition in the property portal market means lower pricing for the agents, which will hopefully get passed on in reduced EA fees.
I guess it's convenient that, at the moment, Rightmove is a one-stop-shop - but that's giving them too much freedom to increase their prices.0
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