A new round of testimonials from agents has been published by OnTheMarket.
The latest trio of member agents say that OTM is providing “an extremely high standard” of leads, and is liked by consumers.
The agents also say that without the additional products favoured by Rightmove and Zoopla, OTM is seen as a “much fairer system” and that buyers and tenants are becoming increasingly aware of the portal’s new and exclusive property listings.
A further comment is that OTM is different because it “listens to its members”.
Ben Gershon, director of Frost Property in Purley, said: “It’s been almost a year since we decided to remove our properties from Zoopla and this decision has not affected our business.
“I have no regrets leaving Zoopla and other agents should know that even as an independent agent, it has not cost me instructions.”
Mike Marsh, from Raine and Co, said: “The leads supplied to us by OTM are of an extremely high standard.
“We decided to join OTM as soon as we reviewed the strategy and costs. We didn’t take much persuading!
“We were fed up with Rightmove and Zoopla because of their ever-increasing fees.
“Whenever we have met representatives from the other major portals, we have felt that they are more focused on increasing the portal’s income than on providing a high level of service to us, their estate and letting agent customers.
“It was our industry which built Rightmove and Zoopla into the powerful giants which they are today with their enormous profits and stock market valuations.”
He added: “We hear frequently from our customers how user-friendly OTM is and how cleanly it displays the properties on the market.
“In my own opinion, it is only a matter of time before the property stock on the portal increases and OTM will be able to compete head-on with Rightmove.”
Scott Mason, director of the Home Partnership, said: “We were tired of the up-selling by the other portals and decided that OnTheMarket’s approach – without all the bells and whistles of additional products – was a much fairer system for agents and a cleaner search service for consumers.
“OTM does not allow an agent with deep pockets to gain advantage over another by buying greater prominence in the search results.
“Furthermore, we were disillusioned with the way the other major portals had facilitated the rise of online-only agents whilst positioning their properties identically within the presentation of the overall search results.
“It is the traditional high street agents which have kept the portals in good business over many years.”
He added: “At the Home Partnership, we launch most of our new-to-market properties at OTM 48 hours ahead of advertising them on Rightmove.
“Recently, we listed a property exclusively at OnTheMarket and within the first 24 hours, 15 viewings were lined up via the portal which was just over half the total number of viewings held across the entire weekend.
“We have been more than impressed with the power of the portal in attracting serious buyers.”
The testimonials are here
Comments (26)
its quite amazing that I have pointed out the obvious and I get 4 dislikes and much like my comment above, the truth hurts and you can’t take the truth so you knock me and further bury your head in the sand ****** amazing
The fourth testimonial (Surreyagent) was the only one worth reading as it was the truth from start to finish, unlike the 3 others but then if you are asking for testimonials from clients you aren’t going to publish/release those that are close to the truth and hurt!
The same could be said for Z and RM but we don’t have those rammed down our throats and be expected to swallow!!
listen – whatever anyone thinks, we have to stick with OTM for the benefit of controlling our own future. if not the other 2 get bigger and more powerful and eventually we will be puppets on a string calling to their shots (sound familiar?). at some stage they will offer private listings to combat the online portals. we are just filling their pockets in the meantime. do we get enough leads at moment – no – but then the others aren’t coming up with much either. HANG IN THERE…..
Hang in there until when? PurpleBricks has more stock than me in my local area? £700 AND they do a better job of marketing the property?
The problem here is that the longer this goes on, the better agents who aren’t with Agents Mutual are getting at winning business from those who are on it. Its admirable that the guys have come out swinging for them but you can’t hide the truth of the size of OTM’s audience forever, and once a consumer truly understands what their agent is up to, they don’t like it.
If yours was the 4th testimonial surreyagent, you can quite easily see why Springett stuck with just the 3.
That was quite funny for you disillusioned.
Maybe just the 3 was all OTM could get. Either way it feels like clutching at straws. I would say by the lack of comments being made nobody really cares any more!
They’re turned off by posters (trolls) like you regrettably.
There does indeed appear to be one set of posters that are shouting louder than others at the moment, which is exactly what Agents Mutual advised us would happen.
El Burro had it on the nail yesterday when he questioned why the anti-OTM brigade even bother anymore. Understandable I guess coming from online agents and portal reps who desperately want it to fail. After a while they become utterly predictable jumping on/highjacking threads as soon as they are published in the morning. Ultimately they become just white noise.
Hang in there for four more years and then, maybe, just maybe….