OnTheMarket plc, the agent-backed company which operates the OnTheMarket.com property portal announced that, as of 31 January 2019, it has listing agreements with UK estate and letting agents with more than 12,500 branches. This is an increase of more than 7,000 branches in just under a year since Admission to AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller growing companies, back in February 2018.
The sales team is continuing to see encouragingly high levels of agent support and conversion to signed contracts when it presents the opportunity of listing on an agent-backed portal.
In January the Court of Appeal issued judgment in favour of OnTheMarket’s wholly-owned subsidiary Agents' Mutual Ltd with regard to all the competition issues in its proceedings against Gascoigne Halman. The Court unanimously and comprehensively dismissed the appeal by Gascoigne Halman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal's judgment handed down in July 2017. The residual non-competition issues relating to OnTheMarket’s claim remain to be resolved.
OnTheMarket put the growth in their agency branch base down to offering free listings under short-term introductory trial offers, with a view to converting these to full tariff contracts when the value of its offering has been demonstrated.