Over the same period, main rival primelocation grew by only 4.2% to 75,000 properties.
New agents to sign up include Fine and Country, a marketing group run by the Guild of professional agents, John D Wood & Co, Winkworth, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, Chancellors, Anscombe & Ringland and Russell Baldwin & Bright.
The growth over the past year is due to the unique service propertyfinder.com offers its member agents. The propertyfinder website will be re-launched shortly with a brand new image. Targeting the mid to higher end of the residential market with listings from the UK’s most progressive agents, the new propertyfinder.com will offer its member agents:
- Access to the 1.25m property seeking visitors that come to propertyfinder every quarter .
- An average of 136 electronic referrals per office/month (e-mails and visits to member agents’ websites).
- Direct access to homebuyers searching via Google, Channel4.com, and other partners.
- No restrictions on other internet sites that agents might choose to use.
- Brand awareness three times its nearest competitor .
- A major advertising campaign, including weekly advertisements in the
Sunday Times.
Nicholas Leeming FRICS, Sales Director of propertyfinder, comments:
'We are delighted with the huge growth in listings over the past year. Propertyfinder.co.uk is the longest established yet now the fastest growing property website in the UK and we have ambitious plans to grow the site yet further. Above all, our primary focus is on delivering value to agents, driving traffic to their websites, sending e-mail referrals and helping them provide the best service to their customers. Through advertising in publications like Country Life we intend to build upon and strengthen our brand awareness lead.
We've started having good discussions with more larger agents too, and hope that we can report some news on this in the coming months.’
