Andy Clark [pictured above],who held a product development role at OnTheMarket since before the portal’s ill fated launch , some 11 months ago, has moved over to easyProperty.com becoming their head of product development.
easyProperty Advert - ' Sept 2015 Launch'
Rob Ellice, chief executive of easyProperty, told @onthemaketblog
“Andy’s going to be our Head of Product. He’ll be in charge of how our website works and looks and he brings with him a vast amount of experience and knowledge of a portal.”
“Andy’s going to be our Head of Product. He’ll be in charge of how our website works and looks and he brings with him a vast amount of experience and knowledge of a portal.”
easyProperty launch - CEO Rob Ellice's speech
Clarke - who on his LinkedIn profile describes himself as “part of the founding team” at OTM - has an MBA from Imperial College Business School and a number of entrepreneurship awards, is believed to have started at easyProperty at the start of December.
easyProperty is an online agency so is banned from OnTheMarket unlike zoopla primelocation or rightmove.
When asked by various property trade magazines, whether Clarke would be replaced, an OTM spokeswoman said "No comment."
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou CEO and founder of easygroup speaks at the easyProperty launch established back in 2014
Ellice will be travelling to the UAE, immediately after Christmas, to consider a number of undisclosed deals on behalf of the Easyproperty.com brand, which earlier this month revealed that it had raised £25m in its latest round of funding ,totaling five times the target which it sought.
Interview with easyProperty founders, Rob Ellice & Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Recent commentary from investors, about Toscafund hedge fund with a £14m round of investment, with Ellice adding ,that the investment round could have been easily oversubscribed 10 times over.
One of easyProperty’s early 2016 objectives - “which we’ll meet in January or February at the latest” says Ellice - is the launch of residential and commercial online auction services.
The Appetite for this , business model [fixed fee no physical office] has a growing consensus with the general public rather than what the industry thinks.The leading online estate agencies have also an been funded by public ,venture capital and private equity.
Further Reading
Property News 2015 Highlights @onthemarketblog
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