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A war of words is escalating between OnTheMarket owner CoStar and its rival Realtor.com in the US. It comes as CoStar was...

One of the world’s leading analysts of portals has warned Boomin, OnTheMarket and others challenging Rightmove - millions have been spent...

Property porn as a popular pastime is as big in the US as it is here, as fans of shows like Netflix’s...

Rightmove, which recently posted a 37 per cent drop in revenue for the first six months of 2020, has lost almost...

An international comparison of how major portals have discounted their charges to agents show Rightmove and Zoopla making “deeper and longer...

Rightmove’s growth rate is at an all-time low, despite what some consider to be an unbeatable lead amongst portals in the...

I remember the day well; the day we all fell foul of addiction, the day our website was launched. Until then, at...

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

My eye was caught yesterday morning by news that PropTech company, Agent Software, is claiming that ‘some agencies deliberately over-value properties...

A recent holiday in the US gave me an opportunity to catch up with property news over there - and surprisingly,...

A property technology analyst has floated the idea that portals could become eclipsed by powerful alternatives such as Google, triggered by...

It’s not happening here (yet) but several articles on US websites have started talking up the possibility of Amazon going into...

Supporting the adoption of technology does not mean we have to stop protecting the core values of the property industry. In...

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...

We are accustomed to increasingly lavish CGIs, fly-throughs and even the (short-lived) 3D floor plan. Now the United States has led...