April 3, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
The battle for mobile market share fought by Germany’s top real estate platforms continues at a relentless pace, with no player allowing the other any space to maneuver. In the latest exchange Immonet and Immobilienscout24 launched identical home-builder apps within 6 days of one another. Both are free. Immonet’s app came first, but Immobilienscout24′s app is bigger....
March 2, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Since March 1 private sellers (and buyers) can have their properties evaluated professionally on Immonet.de for €25.99 per valuation ($33 U.S.). Estate agents pay €22.90 per valuation.Immobilienscout24 introduced a similar service (for €29.90 and €24.90 respectively) late last year. Immowelt, Germany’s number two (or maybe number three –...
By Christo Volschenk
The long-running battle between Immonet and Immowelt for the second position in Germany’s online real estate market turned into an open, verbal exchange this morning, when Immonet released a statement insisting that it was number two and not Immowelt.The tit-for-tat raises the question how to rank portals when no financial statements are at hand.
Since the release of the January statistics for unique...