A new property portal is launching a week today, on September 14.
Called My Property Search, it is promising a “streamlined system” allowing agents to upload properties using Google integration and “time-saving click lists”.
It is going to charge £99 plus VAT per branch, per month.
It also says that in the next few weeks, it will become a familiar sight online as well as in print and on TV and radio.
On the website, it invites agents to “find out more about how we intend to become a well-known, nationwide brand by the end of the year”.
There is little on the website at the moment, apart from an interesting “about us” section, which says it is the “UK’s biggest gateway for property search”.
My Property Search says it is the trading name of Tajpuriya Group whose registered office is in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
Comments (45)
I see PeeBee has lots of time on his hands again today…
today being 7th 🙂
And the ‘day’ you refer to started well before 8am and finished well past 5 – so what’s your point, part-timer?
Some naughty internet marketers steal articles from other peoples blogs and ‘spin’ (change a lot of the words) them using software which, in effect, makes a unique article. The problem is, sometimes the new article is a useless piece of text which does not make sense. That’s the case with most of this website.
To be fair this home page (http://www.mypropertysearch.co.uk/tajpuriyagroup) does look a little like Rightmove’s home page!
They even copied word for word some of the text:
Register with us to get instant property alerts as soon as a property hits My Property Search, save properties and searches, personalise content, and more…
Rightmove:
Register with us to get instant property alerts as soon as a property hits Rightmove, save properties and searches, personalise content, and more…
But the best page, without doubt is the Privacy Policy page:
My Property Search is focused on ensuring and regarding your protection. This policy (together with our terms of utilization and some other archives alluded to in it) sets out the premise on which any individual data we gather from you, or that you give to us, will be handled by us. Trust the accompanying painstakingly to comprehend our perspectives and works on in regards to your own data and how we will treat it. By going through this site you are welcoming and consenting to the practices depicted in this policy. We may change this privacy policy whenever. Any progressions we may make will be posted on this page, so please stay connected for the updates. Your regular connection with our website will constitute your acknowledgment of, and consent to, any progressions to the privacy policy. With the end goal of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the information controller is My Property search. The auxiliaries that this site controls are alluded to in this privacy policy, all things considered exclusively as the My Property Search.
I think we will ALL have a ‘favourite page’, in fairness.
Mine will be the one that leads off the site.
From the LinkedIn page:
‘With thousands of UK properties… Find your happy home here.’
Did I REALLY just read that?
From onthemarket.com….
“Thousands of estate and letting agents have moved to OnTheMarket.com from other sites and many are advertising their new properties exclusively with us first: 24 hours or more ahead of other portals. If you’re looking to buy or rent, make sure you don’t miss out on these properties and set up an instant property alert today.”
Did I read EXCLUSIVELY ? I think my eyes are playing tricks on me….
No – your eyes are working fine.
I think you’ll find that what you have copy’n’pasted – whether or not you like it or want to admit – is correct.
No it isn’t. You know this though.
I just done an interesting review of properties being marketted on OTM compared to rightmove in the main postcode I cover and the difference is absolutely staggering.
74 properties, YES SEVENTY FRICKING FOUR properties compared to 226 on rightmove and 136 on Zoopla….
That’s astonishing, also I’ve noted I was having a debate with someone the other day about SOLD PRICES not being advertised on OTM, clearly the person hadn’t actually ever used the website as it clearly has a tab to check sold prices for every road.
“No it isn’t. You know this though.”
Apparently I don’t.
“74 properties, YES SEVENTY FRICKING FOUR properties compared to 226 on rightmove and 136 on Zoopla….”
Yup – that’s SEVENTY FRICKIN FOUR properties that would have been proportioned roughly 80:20 on the other two sites.
RM would have roughly 240; Zoopla 196. But they don’t.
‘I was having a debate with someone the other day about SOLD PRICES not being advertised on OTM, clearly the person hadn’t actually ever used the website as it clearly has a tab to check sold prices for every road.’
Perhaps the someone was referring to the “Properties sold nearby” and “Recent sales nearby” of the other two portals, which make every buyer feel like a ‘pwoperdee expert’ when entering negotiations £20k/20% below real value.
Maybe you simply hadn’t listened to the someone; or hadn’t qualified what they were saying correctly?
Lesson to be learned: be in possession of ALL relevant facts before entering debate on any subject.
You should take your own advice, my son.
And understand what words actually mean, such as EXCLUSIVE. They DO NOT have exclusive properties, they have hardly ANY properties!
You can check recent sales near by any property using the sold prices tab, you really aren’t that stupid are you?
‘They DO NOT have exclusive properties, they have hardly ANY properties!’
Perhaps someone from OTM would like to confirm actual numbers.
From my understanding of statistics (which I respectfully suggest is a bit sharper than yours…), “hardly any” wouldn’t be considered an accurate estimate when referring to the proportion of listed properties on OTM to the total of available properties on it and the other two portals combined – but, as a proportion of, say, one googol, then “hardly any” could well be the coat on the monkey’s back.
Now – to “EXCLUSIVE”. My understanding of the word is as per the dictionary definition, which has remained pretty much the same since my school days.
As far as your understanding of the word ‘exclusive’ goes – then I would suggest the same be the case for you.
Therefore, the blame for any problem you now have with the true definition must surely rest squarely on the educational standards of the time and/or the establishment you attended for not adhering to those standards.
Unless, that is, you didn’t listen to Teacher that day…
From the ‘Group’ website:
“One of UK’s most comprehensive Organisations in commercial and residential leasing, purchase and finance. Currently focusing on empowering UK’s Estate Agents and Homebuyers of all levels to take a step forward in the booming online business opportunities.”
Well – there you go then! Where do I sign?
This is the best comment i’ve seen…
“Every property you see at OnTheMarket.com is on the market with full-service, office-based estate or letting agents who are experts in their local area.”
What a load of bull…..
I’m not entirely in disagreement with you there.
Pity that you’re using this as an excuse to have a pop at a site where the majority of its advertisers are actually what it says on the tin.
What about the actual website the article is relating to?
How’s about we hear what you think about it; whether or not you’ll be one of the first adopters rushing to chuff a ton a month against the wall with these chancers?
You seem keen…
You’re using this article to defend it, very hyporcritical.
No, I’m not.
My initial post (at 7.49 this morning) was a comment directly relating to the article subject. it made no reference whatsoever to OTM – neither did any of my other comments up to the one directed to ‘247property-Services-HQ’ which, as I have stated, was made for a reason other than, as you insinuate be the case, “defending” OTM.
It is YOU that has gone into OTM-related hyperdrive on this. YOU are the one who has been dangling the bait – fully expecting someone to bite.
I didn’t realise (until now) that responding to your posts would cause the issue it clearly has. I thought that you were encouraging debate – and I have brought debate to you.
Or…was I wrong?
Do you only enter into debate on strict condition that no other party is allowed to participate?
You think the website is 5h!t-awful?
Check out the Tw@tter page!
Words fail me.
(but not anywhere near as much as they do them…)
Better than OTM, saying that that isn’t too difficult…
Heads Gone (credit: Eamonn).
Not really. You’re saying the website looks bad, when in actual fact it resembles rightmove which is the biggest property site in the uk and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, but yet defend a website which is badly designed?
Come on Pee, you’re better than this.
EXCUUUUUUSE ME!
Did I say that the website LOOKED bad?
No, I didn’t.
I actually said it was 5h!t-awful.
BIG difference.
I am happy to accept your unreserved apology. I don’t hold grudges.
The website is just rightmove in different colours.
I’m starting my own website it’s gonna be bigger than rightmove, zoopla and On the market.
It’s called
Ontherightoopla.com
I’ll outsource the techy 5hity stuff to some bonnie fellow in Glasgow or wherever the labour is cheap.
Did I miss anything?
if so keep it to yourself !!!!!
Never heard of them, won’t remember them by the end of the day.
We could probably list with Z for £99/month, who are at least established, but we don’t even want to use them!!!
They forgot to use the word ‘disrupt’. They won’t get anywhere without the use of this word. Or with it. put the money on a horse, it’s a safer bet.
I can openly state that I will not be paying another portal my hard earned money – next story please eye
Myproperty who ??
My portal opens in December and its free, erm yes who am I too. Sorry but £99 at least we get something from Zoopla then Rightmove.
‘…at least we get something from Zoopla then Rightmove.’
Aren’t you forgetting OnTheMarket in that list?
You aren’t getting the exposure that Zoopla and Rightmove give you with OTM.
Next.
You’re on a different level of understanding on this one, LA201625.
With respect can you hold fire and it should all become clear – assuming the poster is prepared to enter debate.
Piece of advice for Mr Tajpuriya. You are completely wasting your time and your money on this project.
I can’t see any new portal being a success unless they get agents on board in their droves (or have a usp).
so when their rep phones up and tries to get agents to sign up to an unknown site for £99 a month what’s the answer going to be?!
Watch this space, basher52 (THAT space, actually…) – I have a feeling that you… and many others… may well find YOUR properties on the site on Day#1!
Remember the debacle that was ‘Houser’?
I feel this could be its’ evil twin.
“Hello, I is providing you with the uniqueness of possible opportunities to publicise the greater part of your best properties on our empowering platform where you can reach all of the discerning UK home movers, innit…”
Translation:
We do the same as every other portal but nobody will use us.
So many ‘possibles’ for Comment of the Week – but this one’s high up in the running in my opinion!
Oh dear Lord – they’ve clearly outsourced the website copy and design to Abrustania –
‘Mypropertysearch.co.uk is the UK’s biggest gateway for property search. Our point is to be available for all UK home seekers to discover subtle specifications of all properties accessible to purchase or rent. Our online portal and mobile stages gives a easy method to refined online property look. With the profundity of data that My property search gives, home buyers can instantly distinguish a favored property.
My property search gives our clients the best platform to access the biggest gathering of people of UK home movers by empowering them to publicize the greater part of their properties on the Mypropertysearch.co.uk site. Clients can likewise exploit a wide arrangement of publicizing products to better advance their properties, image and recommendation.
Our prosperity originates from our business sector driving position with UK estate agents and the quality we add to our clients by giving them the capacity to contact the biggest gathering of people of UK home movers.’
Anyone got a frickin’ translator?
Try the call centre in Bangladesh?
ludicrous…
I hope they haven’t under estimated how much national TV advertising costs and how often you need to advertise on TV before people even start considering you. It’s a money pit. Plus they need to convince Estate Agents to use them and Estate Agents will only do so if they know it’s reaching enough of the public, but then why would the public want a 3rd or 4th option.
Have they not heard of the awful failings of onthemarket?
If you really believe they have, or even be willing to spend, £4m then you’re as naive as me!
FOUR million? Read this, from the ‘Register as an Agent’ tab:
“Focused to become UK’s number one property website, My Property Search is proud to be the destination for home-movers in the UK. We have strategically planned a market plan with over 10 million investment in advertising for consistently growing our market share of UK home-mover activity and to cement our place in the Top 10 busiest websites in the UK.”
Wow.
The nationwide marketing plan says it’s 4 million GBP. They probably mean 14 million total.
It’s good to be ambitious and confident, I have always said that.
So I can’t wait until this portal replaces one of Google UK, YouTube UK, eBay UK, Amazon UK, BBC UK, Yahoo UK, Hotmail UK, Twitter UK, Instagram UK, Reddit UK and ‘cements’ their place in the top 10!