The Power of Online Property Portals:

Enhanced Exposure for Your Property

Online property portals have transformed the property market, offering a multitude of benefits that enhance the property search experience. These platforms offer convenience, efficiency, and an extensive range of options, making them an invaluable resource for buyers and renters alike. They also facilitate expanded property market exposure for sellers and landlords.

The Benefits of These Portals

Online property portals provide a centralised platform where users can effortlessly browse through numerous listings spanning different locations, property types, and price ranges. This vast inventory of properties ensures that users have a comprehensive selection to explore, enabling them to easily find their ideal property.

Additionally, online property portals offer rich and detailed property information. With access to comprehensive descriptions, high-quality images, virtual tours, and interactive maps that provide a comprehensive understanding of each property so that users can make informed decisions. The most significant benefit we see, though, is the way these platforms save time and effort by narrowing down the search for properties that align with people's specific needs and preferences.

They also provide valuable market insights into sales and rental trends to help users navigate the property landscape effectively.

Another significant advantage of online property portals is the seamless communication they facilitate between users and agents. These platforms offer integrated messaging systems and contact forms, enabling applicants to easily connect, enquire about properties, schedule viewings, and seek clarification. This direct and efficient communication streamlines the process and ensures they have the necessary information and support throughout their property journey.

Why We Use These Platforms

At Hastings International, we recognise the immense popularity of online property platforms and understand the compelling reasons behind their widespread use. These platforms offer a range of features and benefits that have made them indispensable to users in the property market. We use online property portals to increase exposure for our listings, and while we also market your property on our own website, these platforms help reach as broad an audience as possible.

Online property platforms are essential to any marketing strategy for selling a property. We are proud to be a leading estate agent in London and committed to providing our clients with the best possible service. We always use the latest technology to market our listings and look for new ways to reach potential buyers.

The Platforms We Use

To maximise the exposure of our listings, we adopt a multi-platform approach. We understand that no single platform can provide the optimum visibility for our properties, which is why we list them on various platforms.

Rightmove

With its extensive reach, Rightmove is the largest property website in the UK, with over 2.5 million active listings and over 1.4 billion visits per year. Their property expert, Tim Bannister, recently explained that there has been an increase in property sales in London, and with such a vast audience, Rightmove has huge benefits for our clients.

View our properties for sale and to rent on Rightmove.

Zoopla

Zoopla came into existence, in the words of their Founder, “to combine property search with research to help users become more informed”.

Zoopla is the UK's second-largest property website, with over 2 million active listings and over 1 billion visits per year. With an equally staggering estimate of each listing being viewed 50,000 times on average, Zoopla has been praised by industry experts for its innovative marketing campaigns and its commitment to providing accurate and up-to-date property information. We particularly like the functionality of the Smartmaps feature.

Each of our branches has its own page on Zoopla. Here you can view our London Bridge and Rotherhithe pages.

Prime Location

Founded in 2001 by a group of estate agents, PrimeLocation deals primarily with the high-end. luxury housing market. With a global audience, of over 5 million visitors a month and their commitment to “provide the most helpful tools, information and services for home-movers”.

You can view our range of properties from our London Bridge and Rotherhithe pages.

Our multi-platform approach to these portals grants us greater control over our marketing efforts. We can tailor our listings to suit the unique features of each platform, optimising their effectiveness for our clients. We closely monitor and analyse the performance of our listings on each platform, enabling us to refine our marketing strategy and derive valuable insights to enhance our online marketing.

If you want to learn more about how we can use these platforms to market your property or have any other queries, please contact us today.