Comments on: Zoopla! launches property command and control system

By: Zoopla raises whopping £3.75 million to disrupt older property sites

Zoopla raises whopping £3.75 million to disrupt older property sites — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:06:21 +0000

[...] less than a year ago Zoopla now claims to be one of the top five most-visited property websites in the UK according to [...]

By: mary cunningham

mary cunningham — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:54:42 +0000

need to know the value of a property in winchmore hill london n21 1al.
How accurate will it be in todays market?

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:33:28 +0000

Just needs Virtual Tours and then they have a great product

By: Vproject

Vproject — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:56:44 +0000

Very nice site, but I’m a little bit worried about the private info they collect from their visitors and promise “NOT be displayed on our website or stored by us.”

By: Strategic Gap - Hyperlocal Niche : Kitchen 2.0

Strategic Gap - Hyperlocal Niche : Kitchen 2.0 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:39:59 +0000

[...] you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I commented on the Zoopla launch over at Techcrunch UK the other day, mainly commenting how, out of all of the [...]

By: BankHolidayMonday

BankHolidayMonday — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:31:39 +0000

Estate agents better start getting together to fight the rightmove hegemony, they can do this by supporting all these start-ups….if they don’t, they will be the ones to suffer Rightmove’s ever increasing fees.

Here is a site that does what zoopla does, but also lets you see valuations on properties that are not recent sales. i.e. it is not limited to only land registry transactions: http://www.mouseprice.net

By: Mike Carter

Mike Carter — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:42:10 +0000

Agreed about the Zillow.com opinion. Looks like a copy/paste to me but I do agree this type of thing is brilliant for the market.

Who said deadpool about Zoomf?
Zoomf has gone national adding over 1000 estate agents, we’ve launched our GEO Ads keyword product as well as lots of new map functionality. And I even think we’ve got a sticker or two on the windows of estate agents.
More to come so watch this space….

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By: VelvetRaven

VelvetRaven — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:07:36 +0000

Richard: Totally – they even went for the same initial letter…. (well, zed rather than zee but…

Patrick: Yeps, you can buy the database from the Post Office

By: Gary Reid

Gary Reid — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:09:58 +0000

I think the user generated aspect of property sites here in the UK has been dismal in the past so good to see at least one adding it in a serious way, I’m just surprised it’s taken so long. The strategic gap has always been user-generated information because of RightMove.

It just makes strategic sense for any UK property start-up, otherwise RightMove will always hold it’s dominance (43% of the market – whereas Nestoria has 0.14% from RightMove’s site) as it was founded by the top 3 estate agent chains so had instant access to a huge chunk of the 1 million homes for sale and in essence could keep out competitors, although I’m not suggesting it did.

Although RightMove’s share price has tumbled since November, but January is the month for the property guys. last figures I saw they had around £30m revenue from agents.

(declares interest as we have a property app launching soon)

By: Patrick Barry

Patrick Barry — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:32:10 +0000

How do the likes of Zoopla and Zillow accumulate all the existing properties? Is that information available without trawling through local phone books etc?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:23:40 +0000

UK Zoopla copied US http://www.Zillow.com – somebody got to mention that.

By: David Shieldhouse

David Shieldhouse — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:27:39 +0000

Very nice! I can see a lot of arguments between vendors and their estate agents over this – bring it on!!
Would be good to incorporate some basic questions on planning permission as this can add value.