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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Estate agents angry at Sarah Beeny


Sarah Beenys new property sales site is apparently winding up estate agents.

The free to sell property site where users can upload images and descriptions about their property is 'allegedly' having 100 new properties uploaded each day.

Estate agents are understandably livid and banging their permatan faces against their office walls in anger.

Tepilo is free to use, so worth a punt for any landlords who like to try everything, but judging by it's Alexa ranking of 207,000,( that's worse than us and we're a niche, niche, niche site,) you'll probably be more likely to sell your property by putting a home made "For Sale" poster in your window.

Good luck to Tepilo, but it does follow a long line of similar sites that have failed to take off, one for those that can be bothered. I can't!

Read more of the supposed angry estate agents in this Telegraph article


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2 comments:

Unknown said...

What matters is whether potential customers can find the web-site. People looking for property - whether to buy or let. When people are looking for property, they are almost always looking for property in a specific location. Location based services - free or chargeable -do have an edge because of this.

Hawkeye said...

Most importantly its the number of eyeballs that will view your property. We are seeing an endless stream of supposed revolutionary letting portals coming on stream. However if nobody visits them then they become as obsolete as a pinboard in a post office. Its worth checking their visitor numbers using Alexa traffic ranks. If they are higher than 30,000 they're probably not worth the effort, unless they upload properties on to the larger portals such as Rightmove et al.