Last month the ex CEO of Realestate.com.au, Simon Baker, wrote some interesting predictions for 2009 in his blog which will be of interest to everyone involved in the real estate marketing space..10 predictions.

• Newspapers will continue to see a decline in real estate classifeds revenues
• realestate.com.au will increase its prices again
• domain.com.au will close the readership gap with realestate.com.au
• domain.com.au will get more aggressive with its local advertising
• realestate.com.au will launch a much needed change to its look and feel
• RP Data will launch a new property portal site in the Australian market
• realestate.com.au will enter the property data business
• There will be consolidation in the Australian market
• A new player will enter the Australian market most likely with a pay for performance model
• News Corp will increase its equity stake in the REA Group (realestate.com.au)

Simon does not mention Google Base who may yet become a serious player in trhe Australian market.Let`s see which ones come true http://www1.propertyportalwatch.com/2009/01/predictions-2009-australia/

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