Robert Bartlett, CEO of Chestertons, said his firm hopes not to be on any other portal than OnTheMarket.
He dismissed what he called ‘scaremongering’ on the day that the challenger portal marked its first birthday.
Bartlett, also a non-executive director of Agents’ Mutual which launched OTM, said yesterday: “At Chestertons, we are proud to have been instrumental in the development, launch and direction of OTM and we have every confidence in its future.
“After just one year, it has significantly disrupted the portals market and is already standing tall as one of the major portals.
“The lightning-quick website has impressed our clients and applicants, many of whom have told us that they find the ad-free search process very user-friendly and that they appreciate the clear, high-quality presentation of the properties.
“This no-nonsense approach has struck a chord with a large number of consumers, not least because many of the new properties displayed at OTM are advertised exclusively there first, often 24 to 48 hours before they can be seen on any other portal.
“There is a lot of scaremongering around OTM but the reality is that it provides our 34 London offices with high-quality leads and that the volume of these leads has been increasing.
“However, we know that this is still only the beginning. Ultimately, we hope OnTheMarket.com will build itself into a market-leading position where Chestertons needs no other portal at all.
“As full-service estate and letting agents, we have long faced the challenge as to how to regain control of our property data from Rightmove and Zoopla Property Group and to deliver a better service to our clients and to property searchers.
“The creation of Agents’ Mutual as an agent-owned, agent-controlled business has at last disrupted the property portals market and presented agents with a portal which will work for them without the need to secure large profits for shareholders.
“We believe that it is only a matter of time before increasing numbers of agents realise that OTM provides the very real possibility to regain control of their data now and that as it continues to build on its membership and property stock, OTM will prove unstoppable.”
Wasn’t this the guy who was on this website telling the world he’d made the right decision sticking with Zoopla, then u turned and told the world he done the right thing sticking with Rightmove?
Its amazing what garbage is classed as news nowadays.
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“Its amazing what garbage is classed as news nowadays.”
Yeah, well – considering it only seems to be you scribbling MDT all over the bog door down the other pub these days you’re well placed to make that statement…
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Leave him PeeBee! He ain’t werf it!
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A post by El Burro on 6 Jan reproduced here for the benefit of harry hood:What I don’t get about the anti OTM brigade is why are they bothered?If OTM is as rubbish as they suggest and all their agents are just flushing their money down the pan in a Ponzi scheme (HarryN) why aren’t they just letting their competitors get on with it?Surely you’d love them making complete ars*’s of themselves, after all it’s money on a doomed project that they could be spending on much more effective platforms competing with you?It seems to me Zoopla were openly rubbishing OTM at the start, that has given way to an almost evangelical campaign to teach others the error of their ways by a band of non OTM agents. Or are they? Maybe Zoopla decided that openly rubbishing a competitor was never going to get them many votes and a different approach was needed . . . . . .Who else would give a monkeys?So why do you give such a monkey harry hood?
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Swap OTM for Zoopla and visa versa, and the same applies!
A post by El Burro on 6 Jan reproduced here for the benefit of harry hood:What I don’t get about the anti ZOOPLA brigade is why are they bothered?If ZOOPLA is as rubbish as they suggest and all their agents are just flushing their money down the pan in a Ponzi scheme (HarryN) why aren’t they just letting their competitors get on with it?Surely you’d love them making complete ars*’s of themselves, after all it’s money on a doomed project that they could be spending on much more effective platforms competing with you?It seems to me OTM were openly rubbishing ZOOPLA at the start, that has given way to an almost evangelical campaign to teach others the error of their ways by a band of non ZOOPLA agents. Or are they? Maybe OTM decided that openly rubbishing a competitor was never going to get them many votes and a different approach was needed . . . . . .Who else would give a monkeys?So why do you give such a monkey harry hood?
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Another vacuous hollow statement with no data whatsoever.
It’s damaging for our industry that bosses of the top firms try and boss the stage with these releases which are not backed up with facts or a single statistic.
Still at least he had the decency to put his own name to it
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A post by El Burro on 6 Jan reproduced here for the benefit of harry hood:What I don’t get about the anti OTM brigade is why are they bothered?If OTM is as rubbish as they suggest and all their agents are just flushing their money down the pan in a Ponzi scheme (HarryN) why aren’t they just letting their competitors get on with it?Surely you’d love them making complete ars*’s of themselves, after all it’s money on a doomed project that they could be spending on much more effective platforms competing with you?It seems to me Zoopla were openly rubbishing OTM at the start, that has given way to an almost evangelical campaign to teach others the error of their ways by a band of non OTM agents. Or are they? Maybe Zoopla decided that openly rubbishing a competitor was never going to get them many votes and a different approach was needed . . . . . .Who else would give a monkeys?So why do you give such a monkey harry hood?
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