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The Economist provides many of the articles that senior management from all types of businesses need to succeed in today's quickly changing marketplace into a single searchable database. The Economist has information on world politics, business, finance, science, technology, and the arts.
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| (c) 2006 EIU. All rts. reserv. | |
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| /TI | E-commerce: Bricks online |
| Main Title: The Economist 11 Mar 2006 | |
| /CN,CN= | COUNTRY: WORLD |
| JN=,PD=,PY= | JOURNAL: The Economist - March 11, 2006 |
| WORD COUNT: 522 | |
| TEXT: | |
| /LP,/TX | House sales go online |
| ALMOST every firm on the high street is having to grapple with the | |
| implications of the internet. Many have expanded successfully online. Now | |
| it is the turn of estate agents to show their determination to extend their | |
| grip to internet property sales. Leading the way is Rightmove, Britain's | |
| leading property website, which intends to list on London's stockmarket | |
| next week. The six-year-old dotcom is expected to be valued at around | |
| Pounds400m ($690m). | |
| How does an online-listings service help estate agents, which already have | |
| swarms of offices in Britain's town centres? Part of the answer is that | |
| Rightmove displays only properties from estate agents, letting agents and | |
| new-home developers. It has left the market for people trying to sell their | |
| own homes directly to other websites. Most buyers and sellers, it seems, | |
| prefer to use an agent: Rightmove says that it now lists around seven out | |
| of ten of all properties for sale in Britain. Its revenues grew by 98% last | |
| year, to Pounds18.2m. | |
| /TX | Instead of clobbering estate agents, the internet is hurting local |
| newspapers. The papers are seeing their classified-advertising revenue for | |
| homes, cars, travel and jobs dwindle as more of it moves online. Some | |
| newspaper groups have been buying up websites in the hope of recapturing | |
| some of this revenue. But Rightmove is determined to stay out of their | |
| clutches. Its founding shareholders are all linked to the property business | |
| and include Countrywide, one of the biggest estate-agency chains. The | |
| existing shareholders are expected to retain a majority of the company's | |
| shares, some of which will also be offered to estate agents using the | |
| service. | |
| Rightmove charges a flat fee of Pounds250 per month for each office in an | |
| agent's chain to list all the property on its books. Some estate agents | |
| spend ten times that amount every month advertising in local newspapers. | |
| The company is also hoping to expand into the business of helping sellers | |
| provide "home information packs", a sort of mini property-survey, which | |
| becomes mandatory in England and Wales in 2007. | |
| America's leading property website, Realtor.com, is also linked to property | |
| agents: it is the official site of the National Association of Realtors, as | |
| Americans call their estate agents. Despite predictions a decade ago that | |
| the internet would slash its membership by half, the association says its | |
| numbers are growing rapidly. It reckons that last year 77% of American home | |
| buyers used the internet to search for a property, but most of those people | |
| then also used an agent to arrange property viewings and to buy. | |
| As with other e-commerce businesses, building scale is proving to be | |
| critical online. The more sellers that flock to a particular website, the | |
| more potential buyers it attracts, which in turn attracts more sellers. It | |
| is the same principle that has powered eBay to the top of the | |
| online-auction business. However, it is yet to be seen if any of the | |
| traditional media groups will be able to create such a virtuous circle in | |
| their own online forays. | |
| SOURCE: The Economist | |
| (c) 2006 Economist Newspaper |
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