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propertyfinder.com, a leading UK property portal, is to supply AOL users in the UK with an exclusive new properrty search capability.

The agreement with AOL enhances propertyfinder.com's position as the exclusive property portal of choice for many of the UK's major websites, including upmystreet and Times Online, and highlights the key role that it plays in the online property search.

propertyfinder.com is the fastest growing major property portal with over 1.9 million unique visitors in July 2006 alone. The website provides access to over 200,000 UK properties for sale or rent, with users being able to contact 2,900 of the market's leading estate agents that choose to list their properties with propertyfinder.com.

Warren Bright, CEO of propertyfinder.com says: "Our partnership with AOL is further proof of the quality of propertyfinder.com, which continues to witness a massive rise in numbers of visitors to the website every month."

Giles Ivey, Director of Sales at AOL adds: "In today's property market, you need to be informed and able to move quickly when looking to buy and rent. By teaming up with propertyfinder.com, we're helping AOL users to access the details of hundreds of thousands of properties around the UK at the same time as they enjoy our content or check their emails." 

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July was a record month for realestate.com.au, Australia’s largest residential estate agency site with just under 3 million visitors.

July was also a record month for propertyfinder.com in the UK with just under 2 million visitors. The site has now moved into second position in the UK market and has experienced over 165% growth since it was acquired in October 2005.

allrealestate.co.nz is now New Zealand’s second largest residential real estate site with over 150,000 visitors each month.

realestate.com.au Group Site Visitors in July 2006

propertyfinder.com (UK)  1,928,840 2

allrealestate.co.nz (NZ)  158,817 1

realcommercial.com.au (AUS) 143,791 1

propertylook.com (AUS & NZ)  73,784 1

Managing Director of the realestate.com.au Group, Simon Baker, said “we are extremely pleased with the continued growth of all our sites. They are now either number 1 or number 2 within each market that they operate.”

“Underlying this growth has been our movement offshore, the development of a global network of sites and the consistent application of proven marketing tools across all sites. We now believe that our combined readership is probably one of the largest in the world with move.com in the United States having 10-12 million visitors.”

Sites under the banner of the realestate.com.au Group now have over 11,500 agent and developer subscribers who advertise more than 700,000 properties across 35 countries.

1. Nielsen//Netratings Market Intelligence July 2006

2. Omniture SiteCatalyst (July 2006)

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Between October last year and May this year, propertyfinder.com has out grown all major competitors. 

According to independent auditor comScore, propertyfinder.com grew by 88% over the May to October period, more than double the growth of fish4homes and rightmove.

Most interesting was the decline in traffic suffered by primelocation over the same period.  According to comScore, primelocation's traffic decreased by 2% between October 2005 and May 2006. 

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