A major regional chain, Arnolds Keys, has joined OnTheMarket.
The firm has eight residential branches across Norwich, Norfolk and north Suffolk, and claims to be the largest independent estate agency both in Norwich and across Norfolk.
A partner is Jan Hÿtch, who was a particularly impressive President of the NAEA in 2013/2014, and is also a chartered surveyor.
The firm will now be advertising all of its properties for sale and to rent at OnTheMarket and Rightmove.
It previously listed on Rightmove only.
OTM announced in January that the level of overall support for the portal had risen beyond 6,500 estate and letting agent offices across the UK, an increase of more than 50% compared with the same time last year.
The figure consists of contracted offices and agents who have signed a Letter of Intent to join OTM when total support reaches 7,500 offices – which is OTM’s next major milestone.
Jan Hÿtch said: “We’re confident that OTM will continue to grow throughout 2016 and will build on the excellent performance it achieved throughout last year.
“The website is a great place to display our clients’ properties and we look forward to working with the UK’s only agent-owned, agent-controlled portal.”
OTM boss Ian Springett said: “We welcome this successful and multi-branch firm.
“It’s been a fantastic start to the year at OTM, with record traffic levels achieved in January, record leads for agents and a record number of recruited offices since launch.
“We look forward to welcoming many more new agents throughout 2016 and continuing to expand our property stock and our membership.”
Comments (59)
Supposing, just supposing OTM said ‘It’s free to everyone for a year. But you have to come off both RM and Z’. Would it fly?
Surely, if everyone took that leap, OTM would have critical mass and RM and Z would be left with just their shareholder agents.
Ducks below parapet…
It’s a fair shout, the only real way it could ever work in the desired way is to let everyone on for free/£50/it’s true value and if everyone did it at once.
The option for mass action was December 2015 and it never got close to happening.
That’s what they should of done in the first place
I would join in an instant if they did that and so I feel, would everyone else
I’m not sadistic by nature but I do get a little shiver of pleasure in watching Danny and his mates undergoing this prolonged Chinese water torture.
Every bit of good news about OTM sends another drip onto their foreheads. It may take a looooooong time. They will squeal and struggle in protest. But eventually the drips will do their work.
I think you will find the drips are already doing ‘their’ work
I said I would be one of those asking questions at the recent OTM meetings. To put to bed immediately. No-one in OTM is being offered £50 subscription. That is a blatant lie. The £50 is being offered by Zoopla.
I’d ask again, Woodentop. You’re mistaken.
Go on DE – Give us just 1 example of an agent paying £50 per month. last count there are nearly 6000 signed up members, all you need to do is provide 1!
The burden of proof is not on me.
Well it is because you are making allegations that cannot be substantiated.
I have called OTM as i am not a member and i have asked for a £50 per month deal and they laughed and said that they do not offer such a deal.
So either you are seen as a vicious liar or you need to provide just 1 agent that can back this nonsense story up.
Comments like yours and Danny’s without proof shows you up for what you really are.
Of course they’d say that. Wait for the sales rep who hasn’t met a target for 6 months to come and visit you.
I’ve seen a few first hand. They aren’t hard to find – funny how many of the new members are previously 1 portal only agents with nothing to lose.
Just sayin’
“funny how many of the new members are previously 1 portal only agents with nothing to lose.”
Sorry – talk me through what’s so funny about that?
Funny because nobody’s leaving RM or Z for OTM, and those that can join tomorrow are doing it because it’s being given to them – thus utterly devaluing the contract. ‘If it’s free, it ain’t worth nothing.’
Nice to see the usual nonsense about OTM
if you want to find out about these deals call complete in rugby
Do you work for complete?
Do you have an invoice showing £50 per month?
if you do and you have i suggest you forward it to the team at Eye as that is a story worth publishing. As opposed to unsubstantiated claims.
The only place they’re unsubstantiated are on here – where it would be amazingly bad form to out someone to settle a debate. It’s not their ‘fault’ they’ve signed a free or £50 contract, it’s OTM’s fault and breach that they’ve issued one. Or dozens.
You should know better than that.
But that’s it DE – I do not believe these £50 contracts exist, its just people making it up. Even Danny above has said he heard from a friend and Peebee was at this supposed meeting and the issue was not addressed.
Erm… not strictly true, smile please.
The issue was raised, glossed over but no specific figures were mentioned – unless that is my cloth ears missed them. Unfortunately those that raised any questions were in the main quiet types and it was extremely difficult to hear them if you were behind.
I don’t believe in New Zealand, but it exists. Whether I’ve seen it for myself or not is an irrelevance.
They are out there.
“I don’t believe in New Zealand, but it exists.”
Jeez – that’s rich coming from someone who chucks any old 5h!te into a conversation and expects us to take it as Gospel.
You couldn’t make it up.
Oh, on second thoughts…
Is this the best “news” on offer? Someone signing with OTM, or the usual daily “switching” from one to another, or moaning about it. It’s all getting very repetitive and boring. Is there nothing else to report?
Give us an exciting property related story that we can get our teeth into Joe.
Stage is yours.
Go
So just a keyboard commando then
They will be the type of average Joe who complains bitterly about TV or radio programmes – because they haven’t yet found the OFF button or don’t know how to use it.
Fred if you are intending to leave OTM it is presumably because you are not satisfied with the leads generated and are only sticking with them due to the low fees currently being offered – why stay with a product you’re clearly not happy with…I’m sure that Z welcome you back at a similar fee to what you pay OTM…or it that you’re not an agent at all?
zoopla are are giving out £50 contracts?!?!?!!?
Zoopla aren’t a mutual who guarantee early adopter rates won’t be bettered by Johnny Come Lately’s.
Zoopla are offering less than £50 and pick a timescale to fix it for!
1, I highly doubt that
2, They can do what they like – they haven’t made a written in guarantee within contract that no later joiner will have an improved rate
3, Zoopla works
I have already asked to leave OTM but they say it’s a fixed term contract and wont play ball, and I am already with Zoopla.
you are clearly with OTM and my guess is you pay the full rate now?
Yes Fred i’m with OTM and happy with progress being made and the implications that brings within i’d guess about 18 months or so…..i’m just surprised at someone who is with OTM and bound by a fixed term contract, who would rather “Ratner” the product than support it.
Simple the product is doing nothing for me so it doesn’t stack up and it was simply a fact!
Just humour us… how many properties are you currently advertising via OTM?
Oh no your back to start ranting again!
Well how many properties are you advertising full stop? It’s not a question of how many due to the fact that almost al of our properties are currently occupied, it’s the lack of feeds from OTM for the ones being advertised.
“Oh no your back to start ranting again!”
H£ll, no – you’re doing such a fantastic job I wouldn’t even dare to try to complete…
“Well how many properties are you advertising full stop?”
All of them full stop
New paragraph
This isn’t about me – you’re the one b!tching – I’m trying to ascertain why for the benefit of both myself and the EYE readership…
“It’s not a question of how many due to the fact that almost al of our properties are currently occupied, it’s the lack of feeds from OTM for the ones being advertised.”
Erm… so ALMOST ALL being UNAVAILABLE means that you have LITTLE OR NOTHING actually AVAILABLE – yes or no?
Sorry – but you can’t reasonably expect mountains of enquiries if there’s nothing for people to enquire about, Mr Jones.
You want to bake a cake – then add some ingredients – and be prepared to do some stirring… but NOT of the kind we are seeing from you continually, I would respectfully suggest.
The truth is, you will not really know the position of OTM for another year or so, due to the fact that they are bringing on many agents through offering zero or near zero listing fee’s.
Only when agent are paying the full listing price will you know if they are sticking with OTM, my guess is that many agents like myself will drop them at the time fees change to the full rate.
if anyone thinks they’re not expanding now, you should just wait for the drop!
So Fred, you are paying this mythical zero or near zero listing fee contract and you want to cancel it, but are moaning because you are being held to a term …in this zero or near zero contract??….. wow thats tough.
Would you care to add any other of the propaganda comments like how much the CEO is paid or the fact that adverts for OTM have appeared in Country Life?
Get a life; I made a comment on whether OTM will have the same number of agent in a year or so, not a complaint with regard to me being with them for a year?
It’s just a fact.
Will Mr Springett publicly state that this isn’t one of the £50 no voting rights deals and has no free time attached. To give this away when they are only one portal anyway would be a bit of a shot in the foot.
Suggest at the same press conference where you say that you don’t want tax evader landlords as clients?
shall we put this to bed Robert. I’m not going to tell my complaince officer about some jokey bravado made in a pub conversation relating to the tax rate handed to google by the chancellor. There …. Done
Danny, over the years Robert has acquired a very particular set of skills, he does not forgive, he does not forget, expect him 😛
Danny obviously you not an OTM member, if you were you would know the answer.
Danny, can you find me just 1 agent that has this so called £50 per month deal? You keep speaking about it but i am yet to meet an agent with this deal?
IT was bought up by OTM at the newcastle meeting by all accounts.Ask PeeBee, a friend who went told me that it was bought up by them and that the rate is £50 but they get no vote. A sort of unofficial 4th category
NO figures were mentioned.
A friend, of a friend of a friend ……. Yep i guess that must confirm it!
In other news they are giving free BMW’s away down the local dealership – Well so my mate says ….
haha funny, danny and his £50 theory! When you said friend danny…… I can only assume you meant PeeBee has a friend 🙂 (sorry…….I’m only being a numpty danny!!)
Just had a look at them and they seem to do a load of advertising on RM, will they be dropping it all to support OTM?
Thought you “couldn’t be *****” Danny? But there you are ******** about the same old thing yet again. Please, give it a rest, there’s a good Danny Boy!