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Comparison

An alternative to relying on the portals

The portal finds the buyer. Your own site is what makes them choose you.

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Feature Webkio Property portals
Where buyers and tenants search Your own SEO and reputation Its whole value
Cost model A flat plan Listing or membership fees
Enquiries Straight to you, with the property attached Through the portal
Competing agents on the same page None Normal
Winning the instruction Valuation requests, your own pages Not its job
Lettings and sales in one place Both, with the right wording for each Both
Your own contact list Yours Partly

Comparison reflects Webkio's built-in capabilities; competitor features vary by plan and available apps. Always check each provider's current plans.
Last reviewed 7 September 2026.

Property portals are where buyers and tenants look first, and no agent seriously proposes leaving them. But a portal advertises the PROPERTY, alongside every competing agent on the same street, and the enquiry it produces arrives in a queue. Your own site advertises the AGENCY: your listings, your valuations, your enquiries, arriving where you see them first.

The verdict

Stay on the portals - that is where the search happens. Use your own site for the half of the job a portal does not do: winning the instruction, showing the properties you already have, and capturing valuation and viewing enquiries that come to you rather than to a queue you share with three other agents.

Frequently asked questions

No, and anybody who says otherwise is selling something. A portal is where the search happens. Your own site is where an owner decides which agent to instruct, and where a buyer who already knows your name goes to look.

It sells the agency rather than the property: who you are, what you charge, what you have sold, and a valuation request that lands with you rather than in a shared queue. A portal listing cannot do any of that.

Add them directly, or bring an existing portfolio across in one go. Each listing carries the fields buyers actually filter on, plus floorplans, brochures and viewing enquiries.

Yes, and it uses the right language for each - an asking price on a sale, a monthly rent on a tenancy - because the two are different businesses and reading like the wrong one costs you enquiries.

They keep arriving as they do now. The point of your own site is the enquiries that never went through a portal at all, which are the ones you pay nothing for.

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