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Top real estate websites in Australia

Which are the top real estate websites in Australia?

Trying to find out what the biggest Australian real estate websites are? In this article I will give a ranking of the best property portals in Australia by number of visitors. Keep in mind that Australia is a country of 25 million inhabitants.

The leading property portals in Australia are:

  1. Realestate.com.au with 26 million visits per month
  2. Domain.com.au with 12 million visits per month
  3. Realestateview.com.au with 2.6 million visits per month
  4. OnTheHouse.com.au with 2 million visits per month
  5. AllHomes.com.au with 1.6 million visits per month
  6. Rent.com.au with 1.3 million visits per month
  7. Property.com.au with 800k visits per month
  8. Homes.com.au

So you can browse for properties in Sydney, Melbourne or across Australia on many websites.

How to sell a property to Australian buyers?

Do you have a property that you want to sell to Australian buyers? Then you should make sure to get your property listed on RealEstate.com.au and Domain.com.au as they capture 80% of the total traffic for real estate searches in Australia.

However, you will first get in touch with a real estate agent. Indeed, real estate agents will be able to tell you which websites work best in the area where your property is located. For example, RayWhite, LJHooker, Raine&Horne are among the leading real estate brands in Australia.

Don’t forget foreign buyers!

Also you shouldn’t forget about foreign buyers. “In 2016/2017, foreigners invested $30 billion into the country’s property market; in 2017/2018, just $13 billion – the lowest level in nearly a decade, according to FIRB.” – RealEstate.com.au

Despite this decrease, foreigners now own more than 400,000 homes in Australia, representing between 2.5 per cent and 4 per cent of Australia’s housing stock.

If you still had a doubt, consider than “foreign buyers accounted for 7-13 per cent of all Australian property transactions, with that proportion obviously much higher in certain locations popular with overseas investors and lower in other parts of the country” (ABC.net).

Bonus: Australia and its “Vendor Paid Advertising” model => see article