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bob, I just thought I would let you know the links from onthehouse to ozcastles are incorrect.

Thanks for leaving your “link” bob! An interesting concept which could be great for property owners wanting to sell and buy. Completely cuts out the need for agents!

Although http://www.realestate.com.au does have a lot of options for users to choose from (for searching for properties) which may confuse users, you can’t go past the fact that they have a tremendous amount of property listings meaning there is a wide variety of choice.

I recommend that everyone have a look at http://www.property.com.au which is owned by http://www.realestate.com.au and has the same property listings. The only difference is the way the listings are displayed, this website lets you search through a map, this technology is really cool.

I think these two websites are the best place to search for property.

For any real estate portal/website there are two search criteria that need to be addressed, location and type.

You need to find out where users want to search for property so state and then suburb/s and you need to find out what properties they are looking for so type, features and price.

Some websites combine these two search criteria into one function like REA while others search for location first and then property type like Domain.

My personal opinion is that users should search for location first and then property features after location has been found, the Domain model works well. Most of the Map based real estate portals use this method of searching, users enter the suburb or postcode they are interested in. All properties for this suburb appear and then users can filter the type of property through a side bar on the map.

Agreed Micky…i basically look at those 2 and don’t worry about the rest, i have confidence that i am getting a fair representation of whats on the market from these 2 sites.

Our agency receives a large number of inquiries through http://www.realestateguide.com.au. This was quite a surprise to us when we first joined up to the subscription. Although another agent reported she receives more enquiries from this website than she does from any other we were quite skeptical. The results have been a lot better than expected and this proves that small real estate portals can be affective for marketing real estate.

The majority of real estate agents do not advertise properties on classified websites because they have access to the market leader in real estate portals (realestate.com.au and domain.com.au).

The majority (around 98%) of listings on classified websites are private sellers. The most popular in Australia is Gumtree followed by Craig’s List across the world.

A large amount of property owners have reported positive results from advertising their property on ebay. This can be expected due to the large audience which ebay can attract.

The best thing about most classified websites is that they are free to list your property and because they have a variety of other products for sale or lease they usually reach a good audience.