Purplebricks is very easily the most recognisable online estate agency, according to a survey of 1,300 home owners by respected polling organisation YouGov. The exercise, for property information website SellingUp.com. found that 39 per cent of owners knew the Purplebricks name - a far higher brand awareness than all of its six major online estate agents rivals combined, who between them achieved only 22 per cent recognition. Second to Purplebricks was Tepilo - which has received substantial exposure thanks to its TV celebrity owner Sarah Beeny - with 10 per cent of homeowers saying they had heard of it. Then came eMoov which although well known within the industry achieved a more modest seven per cent recognition in this poll. easyProperty claimed only two per cent brand recognition, ahead of HouseSimple, House Network and Hatched - the latter having just been snapped up by Connells - which each polled one per cent. “We commissioned YouGov to conduct this survey of homeowners to benchmark the online estate agent industry at a pivotal moment – the floatation of Purplebricks on the London Stock Exchange on December 17” says SellingUp.com managing director Oliver Lewis. “The poll suggests that Purplebricks is streets ahead of its competitors in terms of public brand awareness, despite only launching in April 2014, several years after its three biggest rivals Teplio (2008), HouseSimple (2007) and eMoov (2010)” he says. “This poll could be further evidence that in order to reach mass market awareness, television advertising is an essential tool to complement an online strategy. As the first online estate agent to become a public company, Purplebricks will have access to far greater funds than before – an estimated £25 million – much of which it will spend on marketing and business development.” Details of the poll are here.
A recent YouGov poll of 1,300 home owners found that Purplebricks, the online estate agents, has a far higher brand awareness compared to its competitors, despite only launching in 17 December. Results showed that 39% of home owners knew the Purplebricks name compared to its six online estate agents rivals who only received 22% recognition between them. Second to Purplebricks was Tepilo, followed by eMoov, easyProperty, HouseSimple, House Network, and Hatched. Property information website, SellingUp.com, commissioned YouGov to conduct the poll to try and benchmark the online estate agents market after Purplebricks floated on the London Stock Exchange on April 2014.