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That might help a little, but surely the fundamental problem is RightMove's market consolidation. With competitors like Zoopla and OnTheMarket offering essentia
by n4r9 2mo ago
That might help a little, but surely the fundamental problem is RightMove's market consolidation. With competitors like Zoopla and OnTheMarket offering essentially the same product but getting a fraction of the traffic, I suspect RM is engaging in some sort of anti-competitive practise to maintain market dominance. There is a recent lawsuit against them [0], in which the plaintiff pleads that RM employs "exclusionary conduct – behaviour said to weaken rival portals" [1].
Personally, I would hate to go back to the days of trawling individual estate agents and manually comparing prices, floorplans, locations etc... from websites with different formats and UIs. House market aggregators are massively valuable to buyers and sellers, we just need to regulate the industry to be competitive.
[0] https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/17717726-mr-jeremy-newman https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/17717726-mr-jeremy-newma...
[1] https://www.hilldickinson.com/our-view/articles/testing-competition-law-in-digital-platform-markets-newman-v-rightmove/ https://www.hilldickinson.com/our-view/articles/testing-comp...