Has anyone ever worked for Rightmove?

[R6VED]

As above really, has anyone on here ever worked for the company and if so what can you tell me about the experience?

Thanks very much in advance.

[elanfan]

Not helpful I realise but do you think these companies are going to exist in X years time with people moving towards advertising property themselves direct to the public? Just a thought.

[randlemarcus]

elanfan said:

Not helpful I realise but do you think these companies are going to exist in X years time with people moving towards advertising property themselves direct to the public? Just a thought.

But the centralised view of multiples in things right Rightmove helps. It might be someone other than RightMove, but it won't be a virtual classifieds.

[R6VED]

No not helpful really, but heh that is the PH way :-)

I don't think there will ever be a time when it is all self listing as a huge amount of people will not want to manage the process themselves.

I certainly see a slide in that general direction for now, but when it all goes tits up as it so often does, those people won't risk it next time and will head back to the estate agency for next time.

[Jasandjules]

elanfan said:

Not helpful I realise but do you think these companies are going to exist in X years time with people moving towards advertising property themselves direct to the public? Just a thought.

Yes. In the same way Estate Agents are. Not everyone wants to get personal in selling their house and will want an agent to do it still.

[KFC]

elanfan said:

Not helpful I realise but do you think these companies are going to exist in X years time with people moving towards advertising property themselves direct to the public? Just a thought.

Most of the high street agents are going to cease to exist... that side of it is definitely not a place I'd suggest a teenager to look to start a career in today.

Rightmove stand a great chance of winning the war and being the 'eBay' of property sales. Like the auction space and eBay, I don't think there is really room for more than one player.

Could Zoopla take over, or could some new random & well funded one take the lead? Who knows. If you bet the farm on Myspace when it was absolutely dominating the marketplace you'd have lost your shirt as Facebook wiped them out.

[Vaud]

elanfan said:

Not helpful I realise but do you think these companies are going to exist in X years time with people moving towards advertising property themselves direct to the public? Just a thought.

I do, yes - aggregation sites need to exist - how else can you search on an area?

[randlemarcus]

Vaud said:

I do, yes - aggregation sites need to exist - how else can you search on an area?

Standardised listing details would help with that - mandatory attributes on things like beds, postcode etc, will allow someone like Google to rule forever. Means you can use any listing site or agent, and you go on the big search engine site.

[CountZero23]

RigthMvoe has a license to print money right now and have a monopoly on the market. The service they provide costs sweet FA and must be raking it in.

That said the Estate agents have clubbed togther to create their own site and cut out the middle man.

Onthemarket.com is an interesting development.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/26/prope...

[Shaoxter]

elanfan said:

Not helpful I realise but do you think these companies are going to exist in X years time with people moving towards advertising property themselves direct to the public? Just a thought.

Err, I think you mean estate agents are going to go out of business, not Rightmove. If you were to advertise directly, you still need a platform to do so.

CountZero23 said:

That said the Estate agents have clubbed togther to create their own site and cut out the middle man.

Onthemarket.com is an interesting development.

Only interesting for estate agents, not for the buyer or the seller. And once they get big enough it will just be another RM/Zoopla.

[KFC]

CountZero23 said:

That said the Estate agents have clubbed togther to create their own site and cut out the middle man.

Most estate agents are too stupid to realise they *are* the middle man.