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22nd January 2016
Docklands Property Matters is proud to announce its membership of OnTheMarket.com, a direct competitor to Rightmove and Zoopla.
As a consequence, it will be advertising all of its properties from now on at OnTheMarket.com which features hundreds of thousands of properties for sale and to rent at all price points across the UK.
The portal has created a sea change in the online property search market since its launch in January 2015, and has attracted overall support from 6,000 estate and letting agent offices across the UK - of which more than 90% are contracted offices. The balance is from firms which have signed a Letter of Intent expressing their support and their intention to join as members when total support reaches 7,500 offices.
OnTheMarket.com has become a ‘must-view’ website for the key audience of serious property-seekers.
OnTheMarket.com is a mutual organisation without the requirement to feed dividends to external shareholders. The board includes senior representatives of Chestertons, Douglas & Gordon, Glentree Estates, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, Knight Frank, Savills, Spicerhaart and Strutt & Parker.
All of these firms are advertising their properties at OnTheMarket.com and all of them are launching their new-to-market properties there in advance of advertising them on any other portal: typically 24 to 48 hours ahead.* This provides an extra and compelling reason for serious property-seekers to visit the portal and to return.
OnTheMarket.com member agents commit to advertise their properties on no more than one other competing portal. In practice, this means in most cases removing their properties from either Rightmove or Zoopla. Around 90% of OnTheMarket.com's members have chosen to remain with Rightmove and less than 10% have retained Zoopla.
The property search at OnTheMarket.com is slick, simple, fast and state-of-the-art, compatible with the latest technologies. The website adapts seamlessly to fit the screen of any device being used to view it. There is no clutter from irritating and distracting third party adverts, nor any spam email.
The properties are the “heroes” of the search, with great prominence given to the size and quality of the all-important photographs. Every property at OnTheMarket.com is marketed by a locally-based estate or letting agent because OnTheMarket.com knows the majority of the public recognises the benefits of having a local professional agent who can manage the sales or lettings process on their behalf. OnTheMarket.com does not feature properties marketed by online-only "agents".