OnTheMarket vs Zoopla: Property portals at war as estate agents’ website enters the market January 26, 2015 A war of words broke out last night as the boss of property portal Zoopla labelled OnTheMarket – a new challenger in the property portal space – as “a regressive business model trying to stifle innovation”. The new property sales website, mutually owned by estate agents including Savills and Knight Frank, is being launched this [...]
London estate agent Knight Frank cuts ties with Zoopla over new website Onthemarket.com December 11, 2014 Property website Zoopla yesterday brushed off the break up of its partnership with London estate agents Knight Frank, with share price dipping by just 0.35 per cent. Knight Frank’s decision to cut ties with the online business comes ahead of a January 2015 launch of Onthemarket.com. Knight Frank is one of the founders [...]
Blow for Zoopla as estate agent The Spicerhaart Group lets deal expire November 27, 2014 Online property giant Zoopla was dealt a blow this morning as a leading UK estate agent revealed that it would not be renewing its contract with the site. The Spicerhaart Group – which runs Haart, Felicity J Lord, Darlows and Chewton Rose – will allow its deal with Zoopla to expire at the end of this week. [...]
Zoopla boss Alex Chesterman isn’t fazed by Agents’ Mutual launch November 25, 2014 Agents’ Mutual doesn’t faze the property portal boss Alex Chesterman isn’t worried by the upcoming launch of what could be Zoopla’s biggest challenge to date, Agents’ Mutual, a property site led by several major estate agents launching in January. “The majority of estate agents are not participating in Agents’ Mutual,” he says. “So far [it [...]
Zoopla share price rises as it shrugs off the threat from Agents’ Mutual November 25, 2014 Shares at online property giant Zoopla rose 2.6 per cent as the market opened, after the company said full-year revenues had soared on the back of rising visits to the website, and as the company dismissed threats from a rival platform. The property group, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), [...]
Britain must do more to scale up tech firms says LoveFilm and Zoopla investor Sherry Coutu November 16, 2014 Britain is great when it comes to helping tech startups, but we lag behind many countries when it comes to scaling-up these companies to reach their full potential, a report will reveal. The Scale-Up report is to be launched today at an event at Bloomberg’s London offices by its author, the investor and entrepreneur [...]
PwC, Uber and Zoopla win big at the 2014 City A.M. Awards November 13, 2014 From Legal & General boss Nigel Wilson to WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell, you could barely move at the fifth annual City A.M. Awards – held last night at the Grange St Paul's Hotel – without bashing elbows with a few City grandees. The ceremony celebrated the brightest and best of the nation's money-makers – [...]
Zoopla’s UK property rich list reveals number of housing millionaires set to hit 500,000 August 25, 2014 Almost 500,000 homeowners in the UK are now part of the so-called property millionaires club after an explosion in the number of houses valued over £1m during the past year. The property rich list, released today by property website Zoopla, said that 484,081 flats and houses are now worth a seven-figure sum – up 49 [...]
Zoopla: Unusually for a tech stock, this one’s looking as safe as houses – Bottom Line August 14, 2014 Being old and boring, I spent last Friday mooching around a somewhat less-than-salubrious corner of our city, looking for a flat that I could buy as an investment. I dropped into two estate agents to ask questions about the area because, back in my day, that was how one did things. The first agent was [...]
Zoopla enjoys record traffic after IPO debut August 14, 2014 ONLINE property giant Zoopla said yesterday that it saw traffic to its websites and apps jump by one-third in its first trading update since its £900m stock market float in June. The company, owner of PrimeLocation, SmartNewHomes and HomesOverseas, said it had an average of 45.5m monthly visits in the four months to 31 July, [...]